[SPM] Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon (via The Command Zone)
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PowrOfFriendship_
Fun_Room554
Weird synergy with Earthbending
CaptainMarcia
Looks like most earthbending comes from casting sorceries or playing creatures, so they'd need a flash or flicker source to get the right timing. [[Rebellious Captives]] and [[Earth Village Ruffians]] can do it without help, though, and it's possible that other cards will join them. ([[Toph, the First Metalbender]] earthbends on your end step, but you have to choose the target before any end step triggers resolve, so Hydro-Man won't be a legal target at the right time.)
Fun_Room554
Sure, it were not even into true AtLA spoiler season. A couple of instant speed earthbend cards doesn’t seem out of the question
CaptainMarcia
Getting a couple is definitely possible, but we've seen enough of them to suggest a pattern of earthbending tending to avoid instant speed. Which makes sense in terms of both how earthbending is practiced in the show and the fact that this functions as creating creatures at instant speed - something that's fine in small numbers but can get messy to overdo.
kmb180
Interesting he doesn’t become an island. I guess the saying is true
Pfabrizio
ChemicalExperiment
PlumtreeChloe
fuck you *turns into an island*
SolomonsNewGrundle
I wonder if [[Blood Moon]] will completely shut him down once he turns into a land
kazeespada
Not quite. His ability adds the ability to change back as part of its resolution(it's considered a duration). So, he turns into a land. Blood Moon turns him into a mountain. But when your next turn comes around, he turns back into a creature and gains his abilities again.
trippysmurf
He turns into a Mountain that can still Tap for Blue. Blood Moon doesn't overwrite that part.
guyincorporated
Lol I love blood moon and blood moon scholarship.
TechnomagusPrime
No. Blood Moon is dependent on his effect. So he'll be a Mountain while the effect is active (and still have the ability to tap for Blue), but will become a creature again when the effect wears off as your next turn begins.
ShadowDcord
That land transformation ability is really weird but should be really interesting to build around
PresidentArk
As an addition, it also means that during other people's turns he's an extra land you can cast counterspells instant-speed stuff with.
eightdx
Also immune to most sorcery speed boardwipes, which makes him pretty solid in Singleton formats
Effective_Tough86
Singleton? This looks like a fantastic card for a monoblue standard deck ive been working on. Now if only we can get another round of bannings to open up the format....
Jacern
It can also be evasion as well, since your opponents sorcery speed boardwipes and kill spells likely wont be able to hit lands
FutureComplaint
The real reason stripmine got reprinted in EOE
TreeGuy521
Mana dork but only for instant speed is kinda cool too in mono blue.
SolomonsNewGrundle
Sand man's arch nemesis
Altruistic_Bottle793
Maybe we'll get a Mud Thing card
Anaxamander57
Huge missed opportunity to bring back Meld for a character absolutely no one cares about.
FartherAwayLights
No shade to the artist, I think this might be the dumbest looking spider man villain I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen The Wall. I hate how much detail is put into his features while he’s made of water. I think he’d look way better with more fantastical features like waterfall hair or something, or with very few features, like a water elemental.
El_Arquero
It's crazy that we have a character here that could have actually looked reasonably like something that could exist in Magic, but then they just had to hit us with the fully formed, perfectly outlined water t-shirt.
trifas
Milskidasith
Swarm_Queen
qu1xote
aprickwithaplomb
Kinda crazy for blue tempo, if Standard ever recovers enough for a tempo deck to be relevant. A bear that can attack as a 3/3 or 4/4 while also letting you hold up Spell Pierce and inherently dodging boardwipes.
I'm glad we'll be getting different art for this on Arena.
DeadpoolVII
This is a very neat design for Hydro Man. Very exciting to see what people come up with.
brianscalabrainey
Basically a 2/2 for UU with prowess dodges sorcery speed removal, but can't block. Interesting in a tempo deck since it gives you mana back, but lack of evasion and being unable to block makes it unplayable imo.
Eaola
I see another dryad arbor controversy in our future
MiracleMayo
That whole situation was so lame dude was hiding that dryad arbor on purpose
Fun fact, this guy's origin story is literally just "Spider-man knocked him into a vat of radioactive water, now he can do this." Not even joking.
Kroooooooo 868 points · Sep 2025 · Simic*
My favourite example of that is The Wall. He was a normal bricklayer who had a normal wall fall on him so he gained all the power of a wall.
Michauxonfire 242 points · Sep 2025 · Golgari*
That's the Wall, brother!
mikaeus97 73 points · Sep 2025 · Brushwagg
The Wall vs Horace Hogan at DPW What the Dog Doin 4 in a Long Ways Table match
ElVongore 24 points · Sep 2025 · :nadu3: Duck Season
Horace Hogan? Mr 1998?
mikaeus97 19 points · Sep 2025 · Brushwagg
Gold Chain, knee brace, vest, goatee and bald head, tell me 1 guy doing it like my man HOR-ASS in 1998?
reshef-destruction 7 points · Sep 2025 · Dan:dan1:
Stone Cold totally ripped him off.
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fronchfrays 8 points · Sep 2025 · Dan:dan1:
Get in or get the FU(BLAM)CK OUT!
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siamkor 75 points · Sep 2025 · Jace Did Several Things Wrong
I like The Walrus, who boasts having the proportionate strength, speed and agility of a walrus.
DromarX 21 points · Sep 2025 · Chandra
I'm partial to The Eggman.
[deleted] 11 points · Sep 2025
Shouldn't that be a shit weak human since proportionally humans are stronger than walruses?
reaponder123 17 points · Sep 2025 · Dân:dan2:
Yeah. Walrus is meant to be a joke villain. Dude got mostly just bad sides from his powers
Sir_Nope_TSS 12 points · Sep 2025 · Grass Toucher
They used him for Deadpool's side-arc during 'Fear Itself.' When Deadpool found the Walrus, he had just sabotaged a monster truck rally (by filling the truck's tires and gas tank with angry bees) just so he could break into the driver's locker backstage and steal the driver's video rental card out of his wallet (completely overlooking the money tucked in there, as DP points out).
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burf12345 47 points · Sep 2025
With that origin, this character is either from the 60s or the early 2000s.
HammyOverlordOfBacon 87 points · Sep 2025
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Left4Bread2 65 points · Sep 2025 · Gruul*
Please god give us an [[Animate Wall]] reprint with this treatment
MTGCardFetcher 15 points · Sep 2025 · Dân:dan2:
Animate Wall - (G) (SF) (txt)
FAQ
burf12345 16 points · Sep 2025
That looks like it's from the 60s, but that style was also used in the 70s, so it's still not a confirmation that I'm right.
Offbeatalchemy 16 points · Sep 2025
1975 was his first and only appearance in the comics.
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sjk9000 192 points · Sep 2025 · Azorius*
I wonder what powers someone would gain if they got knocked into a vat of radioactive radioactivity. Maybe they would become -Man-man, and gain the power to grant superpowers to any person based on whatever object was nearest to them at the time.
PresidentArk 158 points · Sep 2025
I'm pretty sure getting exposed to Radioactive Radiation is where the Hulk came from.
Raekel 36 points · Sep 2025
Correction, The Hulk is what happens when you are exposed to Radioactive Satan. At least, thats what I got out of The Immortal Hulk
KingToasty 12 points · Sep 2025 · Gruul*
Yahweh, Alex Ross, and Alpha Flight. Immortal Hulk truly is the greatest of runs.
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Yellow_Master 104 points · Sep 2025 · Jace
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Radioactive man.
JARAXXUS_EREDAR_LORD 39 points · Sep 2025
Where is Fallout Boy?
Big_Effective_9605 48 points · Sep 2025 · Dân:dan2:
They're still technically making music but they haven't been really relevant in a decade.
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Maneisthebeat 15 points · Sep 2025 · COMPLEAT
Not to be confused with....Radioactive man...
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alblaster 11 points · Sep 2025
Ze goggles. Zey do nazing.
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SolomonsNewGrundle 45 points · Sep 2025 · COMPLEAT
How does Spidey even defeat Water? Does this guy go dormant in the Winter? Why does this villain stay around new York when he can go harass and topple small island communities? Does he know Namor?
Zomburai 125 points · Sep 2025 · Karlov
Hydro-Man doesn't handle being electrocuted, frozen, congealed, or really having anything you can do to water done to him. That said, if you don't have access to something like that he's basically unbeatable. He would be an A-lister like Graviton or Magneto if he weren't such a goddamn moron.
He's basically a cheap thug-for-hire. He's not trying to drown communities, he's trying to get a payday.
TekaroBB 94 points · Sep 2025
A shocking number of comic book villains would be unstoppable if they weren't idiots. Or would be highly valuable members of society if they just used their powers for useful day to day things.
Electrohydra1 129 points · Sep 2025 · COMPLEAT
I'm sure we'll get this on a card in one way or another.
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TekaroBB 35 points · Sep 2025
Great chance for a Displaced Dinosaurs reprint.
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Morganelefay 31 points · Sep 2025 · Chandra
There's a reason Cut Lex Luthor A Check is a well known trope.
amish24 44 points · Sep 2025 · :fleem:FLEEM
i feel like that's possibly the worst named trope of all time.
Lex is perhaps the least "buyable" villain ever. He's extremely principled (not a compliment) and stubborn, and he's also the richest person in the world
sjk9000 31 points · Sep 2025 · Azorius*
It's because Lex Luthor wasn't always a billionaire. The OG Lex was just a rogue mad scientist who made crazy-advanced inventions to commit crimes.
Precisely because of this trope, he was reinvented into the "corrupt CEO" type he's now famous for being.
amish24 10 points · Sep 2025 · :fleem:FLEEM
damn, i had no idea. i've known him since the justice league animated series and thought that was just how he always was.
The_Sign_of_Zeta 15 points · Sep 2025 · Dân:dan2:
He didn’t become the Lex we known until the late 80s after the Crisis on Infinite Earth reboots and John Byrne’s new Superman run.
That’s why Superfriends Lex is always wearing a supervillain outfit. The real estate schemer of the original Superman movies was the first shift from mad scientist to businessman.
vicpc 7 points · Sep 2025 · :bnuuy:Wabbit Season
Looking at the examples, he fit way more onto this this trope pre-crisis. Still weird to name a trope after a character when the version everybody knows doesn't really fit.
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ralanr 19 points · Sep 2025 · :nadu3: Duck Season
This is why Shocker is the GOAT. Man has no misunderstanding of his place and is smart enough to be safe.
SolomonsNewGrundle 12 points · Sep 2025 · COMPLEAT
Reminds me about real world thieves. If they were the super smart ones who can theoretically rob big banks, then their intelligence can get them money in an easier and law abiding way.
Surroundedonallsides 27 points · Sep 2025
I was about 17 when I realized the friends making money selling drugs were actually making less money than my friends who just....got a job, albeit with less time to do drugs.
Outlawgamer1991 18 points · Sep 2025 · :nadu3: Duck Season
I had an acquaintance that started growing pot with his brother (grade A moron and horrible influence) and discovered a love of both botany and chemistry. Ended up getting a PhD in both. His brother went to jail for trying to break into a dispensary
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DiscountMusings 11 points · Sep 2025 · :nadu3: Duck Season
I've always thought that Weather Wizard was wasting his time as a villain. I first saw him in the old Superman cartoon where he uses his wand to start a hurricane in Australia. Storm's powerset, but with no distance limitation and on an absolutely massive scale. Maybe he's not as strong in the comics, but that's an absolutely insane display of power.
And he uses it to... rob banks?
With a bit of research and some better tech, there's no reason to assume he couldn't outright eliminate the idea of a natural disaster. He should be up on the watchtower undoing climate change.
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Candy_Warlock 16 points · Sep 2025 · Colorless
For a recent example, see the Spot, who was a joke villain until Across the Spiderverse actually explored what he's really capable of
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SolomonsNewGrundle 14 points · Sep 2025 · COMPLEAT
What the hell does a water.man need with money? I am fascinated by this dingus
siamkor 22 points · Sep 2025 · Jace Did Several Things Wrong
Yeah. I mean, he could just make a fortune by going "I hear you're having some wildfire trouble. Hire me for a million bucks and send me on a helicopter to the scene, it'll be fixed in 24h." He could easily win 5 million per year. (Edit: without leaving North America.)
"Drought, you say? Well, I could save your crops. I just happen to have tomorrow free... should I put you in contact with my representatives to take care of the legal stuff?"
Jaijoles 14 points · Sep 2025 · Dan:dan1:
He doesn’t generate water. He can turn into water, and he can control water.
If you have a drought, bringing him there doesn’t really help unless you bring water for him to work with and that sort of already solves the problem.
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Zomburai 8 points · Sep 2025 · Karlov
Probably hookers, blow (wait, would cocaine even effect him?)... the guy really is just a cheap thug that happened to get turned into water by an experiment power source, as happens sometimes
One time he tried to kidnap a pop star to make her marry him, he might actually be the dumbest of all Spider-Man villains, including the Rhino and the Big Wheel
I wish they'd use him more
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Ssekli 15 points · Sep 2025 · :bnuuy:Wabbit Season
Im Not a fan either of electrocution, being frozen or congealed to be honest with you.
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PowrOfFriendship_ 19 points · Sep 2025 · :pride:Trans rights!
His girlfriend was cheating on him with Sandman, the two of them started fighting, then Spidey showed up and tricked them into running into each other, causing them to meld into a mud monster. Mud man went crazy, then dehydrated and crumbled. Somehow the two then split up and, embarassed by the whole ordeal, Hydro-Man just fucked off.
Later he came back and Deadpool strapped grenades to himself, dove inside Hydro-Man and detonated himself. Then he was in a jail built by Namor, before being "freed" and transferred to a land based jail by Captain America.
So, yeah, Spidey defeats him by letting other people do it for him.
Zomburai 25 points · Sep 2025 · Karlov
I've always loved that Sandman was so traumatized by the experience he reformed and stayed that way for like 20 real-world years
But Hydro-Man is such a fucking dipshit he was immune and just wrote it off as another Tuesday
PresidentArk 8 points · Sep 2025
Spidey's a gadgeteer (he built the webshooters and created the web substance himself) so presumably by using some sort of gadget or by MacGyvering something.
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gamer-death 14 points · Sep 2025 · Dan:dan1:
comics are cool
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