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[Mid] Grolnok: I Live; I Croak; I Live Again

Commander / EDH Frog GU (Simic) Lab Man/Thoracle Reanimator

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[Mid]: This deck is designed for mid-power games as defined by PlayEDH--very expensive cards and highly-efficient wincons are deliberately excluded.

Seasonal Decks: Every new season, I make a new deck with a top-down design intended to represent that season. This deck is part of that series.


Concept: Spring means and rebirth; I don't like running decks without ; despite its recursion abilities, feels more appropriate for Fall/Winter. In , there's a self-mill frog commander. Frogs are born in Spring. That's perfect; let's build it as recursion-heavy as is practicable.

Gameplay: While it's not the fastest self-mill deck, even at its power level, it has the flexibility to focus on combat damage if the pod is full of low-creature-count decks that are better at countering mill strategies. Because you can use cards exiled with a croak counter (or, as I like to say, "in the croak zone") as if they were in your hand as long as your commander is out, and you can also have fairly ready access to your graveyard depending on the board state, you're likely to have a huge number of options at any given time. It struggles a bit with maintaining enough interference, which could be mitigated by replacing some of the instants and sorceries with permanents or self-recurring equivalents, but to some degree, it's inherently reliant on spells it's good at milling out and bad at recurring.

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90% Casual

Competitive

Date added 1 year
Last updated 1 year
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

34 - 0 Rares

21 - 0 Uncommons

27 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.60
Tokens Bat 1/1 B, Bird 2/2 U, Horror, Insect 1/1 G, Manifest 2/2 C, The Monarch
Folders Grolnok
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