However, if it survives the encounter, during the next end step, an amount of +1/+1 counters are put on Protean Hydra equal to twice the amount that were removed, effectively regrowing two heads in the place of each that were lost
Outside of my very personal use-case, I still think its a great card, especially given so many creatures have EtBs these days
Meriadoc Brandybuck All Meriadoc Brandybuck can do for you is create one food token per combat, and youll have to risk some of your creatures to get it
As a three-mana (1R, 2C) Commander, she's finely balanced, but will almost always be a target for removal because of how powerful her ability is
But it's absolutely not fine when your opponent leads with Hierarch and you follow up with a Scavenging Ooze
This means that you can phase out two creatures for just 1 mana and a card