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
While players have certainly found ways to make powerful decks - with some popular meta decks becoming mainstays in tournaments - the community generally finds ways to combat these and develop counter-strategies, without the need for any cards to be banned from play yet
Things get really fun with its final ability, which costs X to use
For some people, cards are investments to store like casks of wine
Abrupt Decay is the baseline, and is where all comparisons have to be made
But even without all of that synergy, with land fetching, there are enough lands coming out to play that you can expect to see a lot of triggers