Madame Hydra MSH 0221 · uncommon
Madame Hydra · {2}{B}{R} · Legendary Creature — Human Villain · Whenever you cast a Villain spell, create a 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) · Power / toughness: 2/3 · "This will be our night of glory! Hail HYDRA!"
- Price
- from $0.183 printings
- Win rate
- 52.2% GIH 2,223 instances · Pick-Two Draft
Jun 23–Jul 24, 2026 · 17Lands - Draft
- ◆ Key pickVillain spells create extra menace attackers. Cast her before later Villains when you can afford to, but keep enough actual Villain spells.
- Job
- Payoffs
Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 1,160 wins in 2,223 card-in-hand instances.
2,087 distinct games · 1,103 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 23–Jul 24, 2026.
17Lands file dated Jul 27, 2026 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗
Villain spells create extra menace attackers. Cast her before later Villains when you can afford to, but keep enough actual Villain spells.
How this changes your picks
Rules-derived- Take it when
- Develop Villains, trade expendable bodies, and use menace tokens plus incremental damage to keep pressure after combat.
- What to take next
- With the Robot in play, Agents of HYDRA supplies an enter trigger and another when it dies into its Villain token. Madame Hydra rewards casting future Villain spells.
- Wrong pick
- Madame Hydra triggers on casting a Villain spell; creating a Villain token does not itself trigger her.
- Mana & splash
- Keep the colored sources needed for early spells. A synergy payoff does not automatically justify a splash.
Support cards
3Interactions from the card text, not a ranking.
More
- One-pick Draft
- Villain spells create extra menace attackers. Cast her before later Villains when you can afford to, but keep enough actual Villain spells.
- Sealed vs Draft
- Villain spells create extra menace attackers. Cast her before later Villains when you can afford to, but keep enough actual Villain spells.
Draft data
−4.6 pp vs 56.8% average · 2,223 instances
Pick-Two Draft · Jun 23–Jul 24, 2026 · average from 106,417 games
#229 of 259 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 3.0 on average (10,451 packs).
42 of 47 multicolor cards · 18 of 20 multicolor uncommon cards.
2,109 matches
Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 23–Jul 24, 2026. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.
○ Opening hand 50.2% · 847 instances
● Drawn later 53.4% · 1,376 instances
In hand 52.2% · 2,223 instances
Unseen in deck 50.4% · 2,960 instances
+1.7 percentage points when drawn
Compared with multicolor cards
Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.
Best decks for it
no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum
Villains Matter BR51.5%594 instancesEach tick is this card’s all-decks rate (52.2% · 2,223 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.
Usually played with
Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.
Cruel Alliance2,359 games with both in the deckWidow's Bite2,211 games with both in the deckHour of Defeat2,153 games with both in the deckHow to read this
Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.
At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.
Where it sits in the set
Above 12% of 259 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.
17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 23–Jul 24, 2026
Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.
| Finish | Found in | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Nonfoil | Play Booster · Commander Deck Doom Prevails · Commander Deck Set of 4 · Commander Kit Doom Prevails | $0.19 |
| Foil | Collector Booster · Play Booster | $0.27 |
Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 50 packs (2.00%) · 21.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Foil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 487 packs (0.21%) · 6.0% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
Nonfoil in a Play Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 41 packs (2.44%) · 52.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →
How to pull it
Official rates for the whole category, not this card.
| Booster | Slot | Per pack | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play Booster | Uncommons | 100% per position | Uncommons |
| Play Booster | Wildcard of any rarity | 100% | Wildcard of any rarity |
| Play Booster | Traditional foil of any rarity | 100% | Traditional foil of any rarity |
| Collector Booster | Traditional foil uncommons | 100% per position | Traditional foil uncommons |
Wizards · Collecting Marvel Super Heroes ↗ · Oct 29, 2026
Details & sources
- Legal in
- Standard · Historic · Timeless · Pioneer · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
- Illustration
- Pauline Voss, MSH 221 · Scryfall ↗
- More like this
- Villains Matter cards → · Regular printing printings →
- Sources
- Wizards · Collecting Marvel Super Heroes · Oct 29, 2026
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗