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

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

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Creature (24)

• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Crocanura
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Froghemoth
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Haze Frog
• 1x Hedron Crab
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
• 1x Jade Avenger
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 1x Millikin
• 1x Mystic Snake
• 1x Omnibian
• 1x Papercraft Decoy
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Slogurk, the Overslime
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x Willow Geist
• 1x Zellix, Sanity Flayer

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mesmeric Orb
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity

Land (32)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dreamroot Cascade
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 6x Forest
• 1x Hinterland Harbor
• 10x Island
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mystic Sanctuary
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Chronic Flooding
• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Crawling Infestation
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Ichthyomorphosis
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Jace's Erasure
• 1x Kasmina's Transmutation
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Seal of Primordium
• 1x Witness Protection

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Wielder of Mysteries

Commander (1)

Instant (16)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dissipate
• 1x Dream Twist
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Negate
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Sudden Reclamation
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thought Scour
• 1x Void Shatter
• 1x Voidslime

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Commune with the Gods
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Cut Your Losses
• 1x Druidic Ritual
• 1x Increasing Confusion
• 1x Traumatize

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Instant (26)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Consider
• 1x Curate
• 1x Double Major
• 1x Gnaw to the Bone
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Krosan Reclamation
• 1x Memory's Journey
• 1x Moment's Peace *list*
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Reclaim
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Sinister Sabotage
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x You Find the Villains' Lair

Enchantment (17)

• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Crawling Sensation
• 1x Curse of Unbinding
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Fertile Ground
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Overgrowth
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x The Mending of Dominaria
• 1x Utopia Sprawl
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Wolfwillow Haven

Sorcery (26)

• 1x Chill of Foreboding
• 1x Contingency Plan
• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Croaking Counterpart
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Deep Reconnaissance
• 1x Dryad's Revival
• 1x Echo of Eons
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Gather the Pack
• 1x Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mass Diminish
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Praetor's Counsel
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Road of Return
• 1x Roots of Wisdom
• 1x Runic Repetition
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Sea Gate Restoration  ^Flip
• 1x Tapping at the Window
• 1x Thirsting Roots
• 1x Tracker's Instincts
• 1x Winding Way

Artifact (5)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Codex Shredder
• 1x Decanter of Endless Water
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Creature (25)

• 1x Archetype of Imagination
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Burrog Befuddler
• 1x Cephalid Illusionist
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Deranged Assistant
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Galloping Lizrog
• 1x Hullbreaker Horror
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Nightveil Sprite
• 1x Ohran Frostfang
• 1x Sage of Mysteries
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Species Gorger
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Steeple Creeper
• 1x Trollbred Guardian
• 1x Venerated Rotpriest
• 1x World Shaper

Land (4)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Shelters All
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Grove
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, the Perfected Mind

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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.

• Fall 2022: [Mid] Reaper King: Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Winter 2022-3: [Mid] Jorn: Voltjorn
• Spring 2023: [Mid] Grolnok: I Live; I Croak; I Live Again
• Summer 2023: [Mid] Kynaios and Tiro: Brave Maeve
• Fall 2023: [Mid] Gallia: Thalysia

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Concept: Spring means {G} and rebirth; I don't like running decks without {U}; despite its recursion abilities, {B} feels more appropriate for Fall/Winter. In {U}{G}, 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.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 20 - 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