Zaxara, the Exemplary serves as both a mana engine and a token factory, generating massive Hydra tokens every time you cast a spell with X in its mana cost while also tapping for two mana to help fuel those same spells. The deck accelerates into enormous X spells — board wipes, card draw, and game-ending threats like Torment of Hailfire and Villainous Wealth — while doubling down on +1/+1 counter synergies through effects that multiply counters placed on creatures and reward having large or counters-laden creatures. The primary win condition is generating infinite mana through Zaxara paired with Freed from the Real or Pemmin's Aura, then funneling that mana into a single devastating X spell that ends the game outright.

Zaxara, the Exemplary decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Stonecoil Serpent
• Beast Within
• Corpsejack Menace
• Cultivate
• Farseek
• Lightning Greaves
• Mind Spring
• Rampant Growth
• Sol Ring
• Syncopate
• Torment of Hailfire
• Garruk's Uprising
• Gargos, Vicious Watcher
• Voracious Hydra
• Hooded Hydra
• Llanowar Wastes
• Sunken Hollow
• Condescend
• Blue Sun's Zenith
• Kodama's Reach
• Overgrown Tomb
• Watery Grave
• Protean Hydra
• Pemmin's Aura
• Finale of Revelation
• Finale of Devastation
• Unbound Flourishing
• The Great Henge
• Animist's Awakening
• Genesis Hydra
• Path of Ancestry
• Profane Command
• Reliquary Tower
• Vastwood Hydra
• Villainous Wealth
• Freed from the Real
• Erebos's Intervention
• Thassa's Intervention
• Zagoth Triome
• Hungering Hydra
• Mistcutter Hydra
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Curse of the Swine
• Elementalist's Palette
• Hydra Broodmaster
• Managorger Hydra
• Neverwinter Hydra
• Morphic Pool
• Steelbane Hydra
• Nexos
• Astral Cornucopia
• Primordial Hydra
• Woodland Cemetery
• Tyvar's Stand
• Kalonian Hydra
• Rejuvenating Springs
• Lifeblood Hydra
• Undergrowth Stadium
• The Goose Mother
• Ingenious Prodigy
• Breeding Pool
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Herald of Secret Streams
• Simic Ascendancy
• Repulsive Mutation
• Slice from the Shadows
• Hydroid Krasis
• Goldvein Hydra
• Nyxborn Hydra
• Branching Evolution
• Nesting Grounds
• Aggressive Biomancy
• Lair of the Hydra
• Three Tree City
• Innkeeper's Talent
• Pull from Tomorrow
• The Ozolith
• Mossborn Hydra
• Doubling Season
• Exsanguinate
• Bloom Tender
• Deathcap Glade
• Hinterland Harbor
• Yavimaya Coast
• Drowned Catacomb
• Benevolent Hydra
• Barren Moor
• Bojuka Bog
• Boseiju, Who Endures
• Exotic Orchard
• Festering Thicket
• Fetid Pools
• Foreboding Landscape
• 3× Forest
• Island
• Lonely Sandbar
• Opulent Palace
• Rogue's Passage
• Swamp
• Tranquil Thicket