Frog by Lysdexic

Format: Commander

Creator: Lysdexic

Commander: Grolnok, the Omnivore

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Frog typal midrange strategy helmed by Grolnok, the Omnivore. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap Frog creatures in the early turns, casting Grolnok on curve, and using Frog attack triggers to mill permanent cards into exile with croak counters. Because Grolnok allows permanent spells and lands in croak exile to be played freely, every attack replenishes the player's available resources without expending cards from hand. The deck supports this steady engine with a dense suite of 15 counterspells and flexible bounce removal to disrupt opposing threats and protect Grolnok from board wipes. Victory is achieved through incremental combat damage using evasive Frogs buffed by +1/+1 counter engines like Three Tree Scribe and Berta, Wise Extrapolator, or through the alternate win condition of Simic Ascendancy. While resilient against single-target disruption due to preserved croak exile cards, the deck lacks fast mana, tutors, and instant-speed combo finishes, resulting in an honest turn-10 combat clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancestral Reminiscence
  • 1 Bellowing Crier
  • 1 Berta, Wise Extrapolator
  • 1 Blossombind
  • 1 Bounce Off
  • 1 Brackish Blunder
  • 1 Chitinous Graspling
  • 1 Choking Tethers
  • 1 Clear Shot
  • 1 Clement, the Worrywort
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Commune with Beavers
  • 1 Confounding Riddle
  • 1 Convolute
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Divergent Equation
  • 1 Embrace the Paradox
  • 17 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Wings
  • 1 Gigantoad
  • 1 Gossip's Talent
  • 1 Grolnok, the Omnivore
  • 1 Halo Hopper
  • 1 Interdimensional Web Watch
  • 18 Island
  • 1 Leapfrog
  • 1 Long River Lurker
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Mind Spiral
  • 1 Misdirection
  • 1 Mistbreath Elder
  • 1 Mistform Mask
  • 1 Mystical Dispute
  • 1 Obsessive Search
  • 1 Out of Air
  • 1 Paradox Gardens
  • 1 Plummet
  • 1 Poison Dart Frog
  • 1 Polliwallop
  • 1 Procrastinate
  • 1 Punk Frogs
  • 1 Quandrix Charm
  • 1 Quench
  • 1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
  • 1 Reason // Believe
  • 1 Reasonable Doubt
  • 1 Remand
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 River Hoopoe
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Runeboggle
  • 1 Scatter Ray
  • 1 Scent of Brine
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Simic Ascendancy
  • 1 Splash Lasher
  • 1 Sunshower Druid
  • 1 Supreme Will
  • 1 Syncopate
  • 1 Teferi's Curse
  • 1 Three Tree Scribe
  • 1 Unauthorized Exit
  • 1 Unending Whisper
  • 1 Unlucky Drop
  • 1 Utter Insignificance
  • 1 Waterlogged Hulk // Watertight Gondola