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this is like pretty weak, like unless you have like 4 or 5 tokens which you prob wont, this can't kill much. Consider counting the number of creatures plus the number of foods into this rather than just tokens.
Removed artifact supertype
SecretInfiltrator, you did a great breakdown of pointing the problem and what a great solution would look like. That made me think because the choice to be Food was only an added top-down flavor decision and this set doesn't have any other Food themes in green, I omitted the food type. If green had food support this set, I'd absolutely follow your suggestion.
The distinction between counting all enchantments for p/t versus only being able to sacrifice Auras for the activated ability is reflective of my own personal choice. I feel that enchantress can be explosive, so this could have a high body. Of course, a player would want some protection, but I felt that sacrificing any enchantment was too easy. Auras, being the most common subtype of enchantment seemed like the choice that pushes specifics for protection but can still allow the card to be a big ol' beatstick so long as you're playing enchantments.
If the creative concept and the mechanical concept fight, sometimes it might be better to split the idea in two to do each idea justice. This strikes me as such a case.
Being a Food artifact creature serves the creative concept, but the Food ability (and the artifact type, too) distracts from the mechanical concept you set up with the first two abilities.
Let me show you my thought process going through the abilities in order:
(Now checking typeline) Oh! It's a Food! But the Aura-sac ability already covers the life gain part, so does it need to be Food? If it is Food, it's also an artifact. But the text cares only about enchantments and Auras, not about artifacts and Food. If it was some sort of enchantment creature, it would at least count itself for its P/T. Maybe I should double check whether I misread and it counts artifacts and enchantments...
etc.
tl;dr: Being a Food dilutes the enchantment-typal theme - and possibly vice versa (though I read it as enchantment-typal first).
We work with different base terminology, because there is a world of difference between an "enchantress hydra" and an "enchantment-typal hydra". But that's once again a question of whether that's the creative conceit you have in mind or the mechanical one.
If this is top-down, maybe the enchantments/Aura stuff should care about artifacts/tokens/Food.
If this is bottom-up, maybe this isn't the mechanical suite to use a creative treatment on that also pushes you into making it a Food artifact.
Taking this all together, the weird life gain on the Aura ability inspires one idea with respect to the concept. How about you replace the two activated abilities with the following two:
Whenever you sacrifice a Food, this creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Now you can remove "artifact" and "Food" from the typeline, you can add "enchantment" and now have a shorter more in-theme typeline, but due to its own ability the Hydra is still a Food.
You could be extra sneaky and also change the first ability from counting enchantments to counting Food - adding a thematic unity because every single ability tells you that the purpose of this card is to make an enchantment/Food deck, but it doesn't feel like a waste to only lean onto one of the themes.
Being Food came from flavor/depiction. The core concept is an enchantress hydra, which I feel the first two abilities make evident.
Food ability now on bottom
There is some subtlety to the rules of templating, but in general activated abilities go below static CDAs, so the Food text should be at the bottom.
Is Food no longer an artifact type?
These abilities feel a little hodgepodge.
Let me try: Harvest Hydra.
Was missing UEOT in last ability
See Starlight Circle.
Its heads are gourds and its body made of vines and leaves.
"Pays
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Rubble-like. Admittedly, it's not a word. Real Magic couldn't do this as it'd too tedious to attempt to translate (thoguh other languages might have an actual word for rubble-like).