alter cards mtg Card Alters – Anson Maddocks Art Change the text of target permanent or spell by replacing all instances of one color word with another Painting Stream of Life extended

Animate Library will end up enchanting one of your libraries

Of those, a handful of single-target removal spells is all you need

While you could always go with a Hydra Commander that is a Hydra itself like Zaxara or Gargos they dont have access to Red Hydras because they dont have a Red/Green color identity

It is near impossible to stop with blockers and it is fairly hard to race, especially after eating five split and targetted damage to your stuff

It also has a much more affordable mana cost and the morph helps with tricking opponents into killing something else first

I dont see explore mattering too much in other formats