Considering how tall some of these hydras grow on their own, theres nothing wrong with adding in some of your favorite ways to grant them abilities like flying, lifelink, and trample to really give your opponent fits
Drawing a card whenever you cast a spell with mana value 5 or greater is excellent with sweepers like pre-rotation Sunfall, where you can kill every creature and draw a card, with removal spells like Leyline Binding, or with the various Overlords that can enter the battlefield for cheap via impeding, like Overlord of the Hauntwoods
Aurora Shifter is definitely in the generator category: energy-link is a very potent option which can turn any kind of power-buff on your creatures into the other kind of power
The first contains what is essentially a summary of the Homelands comic, and a timeline that matches the one from the comic's backmatter almost word for word
Creature (37) 1x Anurid Swarmsnapper 1x Archweaver 1x Balduvian Bears 1x Bull Hippo 1x Cat Warriors 1x Cave Tiger 1x Crocanura 1x Death-Hood Cobra 1x Druid's Familiar 1x Elite Cat Warrior 1x Elven Warhounds 1x Glass Asp 1x Haze Frog 1x Jedit Ojanen of Efrava 1x King Cheetah 1x Krosan Vorine 1x Lynx 1x Mirri, Cat Warrior 1x Mist Leopard 1x Nacatl Savage 1x Nacatl War-Pride 1x Nylea's Emissary 1x Panther Warriors 1x Penumbra Bobcat 1x Phantom Tiger 1x Pouncing Jaguar 1x Pride of Lions 1x Scythe Tiger 1x Spore Frog 1x Springing Tiger 1x Stalking Tiger 1x Striped Bears 1x Tarpan 1x Tree Monkey 1x Uktabi Wildcats 1x Werebear 1x Zodiac Monkey Land (30) 25x Forest 1x Jungle Basin 1x Rushwood Grove 1x Sapseep Forest 1x Selesnya Guildgate 1x Slippery Karst Enchantment (8) 1x Alpha Authority 1x Broken Fall 1x Canopy Cover 1x Dense Canopy 1x Elephant Guide 1x Exoskeletal Armor 1x Overgrowth 1x Primal Cocoon Artifact (3) 1x Darksteel Ingot 1x Paradise Plume 1x Prismatic Lens Instant (22) 1x Back to Nature 1x Battlegrowth 1x Blunt the Assault 1x Canopy Claws 1x Chameleon Blur 1x Crossbow Ambush 1x Defend the Hearth 1x Deglamer 1x Dryad's Caress 1x Elephant Ambush 1x Evolution Charm 1x Ferocious Charge 1x Flash Foliage 1x Fog 1x Fog Patch 1x Gnaw to the Bone 1x Hunger of the Howlpack 1x Might of the Masses 1x Natural End 1x Naturalize 1x Nourish 1x Oxidize Commander (1) This deck is basically making a ton of cute animals and being able to not lose every time, at the same time
That hour was one of the most traumatic of my life
