Psychic Frog
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Arena Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Freeform Legal
Gladiator Legal
Highlander Legal
Historic Legal
Historic Brawl Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Psychic Frog

Creature — Frog

Whenever this deals combat damage to a player or planeswalker, draw a card.

Discard a card: Put a +1/+1 counter on this.

Exile three cards from your graveyard: This gains flying until end of turn.

psionictemplar on Grixis Counter Burn

3 months ago

I agree that modern is an efficient and cutthroat format but that still doesn't justify your position. So let's look at your examples and why they don't really make the point you want them to make.

Grixis reanimator runs roughly 4 discard spells and about 8 counters total (some main, some side) which are there to compliment the rest of the deck. You have double that and have made that your theme/core part of your deck and that's a gigantic difference. You can say grixis runs both because that's technically correct, but you are missing the point of why. Grixis is doing it to setup it's win in the early game and only needs 1-2 spells resolved to win. Your deck is trying to survive early and grind the opponent down slowly which does not line up with what modern is as a format.

Dimir midrange runs the same 4 discard package as grixis but can run closer to the 12-16 counters range which is still less that what you are running. Also take into consideration that Subtlety has an alternate casting cost to help double spell when needed. And wouldn't you know it, they also run things like TAMIYO, Psychic Frog, and Quantum Riddler to help refill their hand so that they have enough counters when needed. You don't have that luxury here. If you compare the creatures you have with dimir midrange's yours are greatly outclassed which is another big difference. Frog and riddler can both lead to convincing wins that your creatures could only dream of. If you look at the overall plan of dimir midrange, you might notice that it plays to the board a fair bit. Your deck is trying to prevent a board from forming which is not the same.

So at the end of the day, no, I'm not wrong about this. Your examples don't support your case. You're just fixed in your views and not willing to adapt. If you have comparable reasons on why you think I'm wrong, I'm open to hearing them. I have no problem being wrong, but I need a good reason why. The someone did it before so it's still ok isn't it.

wallisface on Grixis Counter Burn

3 months ago

I have to agree with what psionictemplar is saying. And i'll add my own thoughts about the deck below:

  • Your suite of counter magic feels incredibly lacking. In particular, running 3-mana counterspells (i.e. Ionize) is generally a really bad idea. Even Invert Polarity, which is better that Ionize in every way conceivable, doesn't see any play in Modern. Psychic Barrier and Countersquall feel incredibly narrow/weak for 2-mana counterspells when there is just a lot of better options out there.

  • As psionictemplar already mentioned, mixing counter-magic and hand-disruption is generally a really bad idea. One plan is reactive, and the other is proactive - and mixing the two almost always leads to the deck tripping over itself. In the early game, you'll only have the mana to either hand-disrupt or counter... and if you choose to hand-disrupt then you leave your shields down and the opponent can do what they want. Later game when hand-resources are low, top-decking a hand-disruption spell means you lose your ability to control what the opponent does - i.e. they can play their topdeck without being countered. Decks generally want to be geared towards being either reactive or proactive, but not both.

  • Delver of Secrets  Flip is just such a bad card in 2026, and there are just much, much better options (why not just run Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student  Flip??). At absolute best Delver is going to deal 3 damage before it dies. More likely than not the opponent will just killspell it (which you have far too limited resources to justify defending. Modern has sooo much interaction that there's just no way this lives if the opponent wants it gone). The only reasonable reason for this to deal more than 3 damage (outside of a late-game-grind) is that the opponent doesn't care, because they're pushing for a win before that damage is relevant.

  • Your opponent is going to resolve spells - there is no way around that (even the strongest control decks accept this reality). Your deck has almost no way to deal with threats once they're in play, and that is a massive issue. several turn-1 or turn-2 threats could just win the game on their own unanswered, and your ability to deal with them seems close to zero once they get past your counter magic.

  • With your deck trying to focus on reactive plays, as psionictemplar has mentioned, the amount of actual threats you need to play is very low. The more important factors are that those threats need to be very hard to remove (not the case here, except for kindof the Terror), and that you need the inevitability to be able to reach those threats in your deck (also not the case here, as your deck has no way to gain card-advantage, you'll inevitably get overwhelmed). Moving outside of dedicated control, tempo decks often run between 8-12 creatures, though those creatures usually have a lot more immediate board-presence in that they create a lot of pressure/value (e.g. Murktide Regent, Psychic Frog, Dragon's Rage Channeler).

I would suggest looking at how old (pre-mh3) Murktide lists were built. That deck is the closest in concept to what you are doing and should be a solid starting ground to work from when trying to figure out this brew.

capwner on Ponza Twin

4 months ago

This is a VERY interesting take on twin! Deck looks super sweet, rumble being able to dig for both halves of the combo (bc twin is a perm) is awesome. A couple things I might consider: Arbor Elf to increase the effectiveness of your sprawl ramp, and maybe Karn, the Great Creator + Liquimetal Coating for moar ponza-ing? Just ideas though, looks solid as is. Oh yeah I'm also a fan of Blasphemous Act as a sideboard option over the 3dmg sweeps because it will LEVEL some of the scarier aggro threats like Abhorrent Oculus Quantum Riddler Psychic Frog Guide of Souls Kappa Cannoneer and Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury where anger/bhood's simply just doesn't cut it. Also big thanks for checking out/the vote my own gruul ponza list!!

Cloudy2024 on Cosmic Charybdis (Retired)

8 months ago

Have you thought about adding blue for Psychic Frog?

Tippycat on X- Secret Agent Group Hug EDH

10 months ago

I too have been trying to build an “X” deck. Definitely a lot of ways you could take this - love your ideas!

Some other thoughts - Confounding Conundrum, Turbulent Dreams, Consuming Tide and Faerie Slumber Party seem like ways to keep the board state in check and opponents’ hands full - though you risk “X" getting discarded if opponents don’t have unlimited hand size. Price of Knowledge could help here. Mind Over Matter, Psychic Frog also seems like potential adds allowing you to discard your own cards for advantage and also would protect against Price of Knowledge.

Also, personally, I find if I have under 37 lands I’m getting regularly mana screwed - and Reliquary Tower seems like it might be a good add here with all the card draw. And Buried Ruin to retrieve any key artifacts.

And maybe Thought Vessel instead of Mind Stone to make sure you’re keeping all the cards you want to?

CommanderNeyo on Lord Tiago, Forsaken Spellbinder (Updated Again)

1 year ago

Personally, I would remove the following:

I would put 2 or 3 Murktide Regents in the mainboard, as the card is a powerful wincon.

Psychic Frog should probably come out of the maybeboard, as it works well with Murktide and is a powerful card draw engine and wincon in its own right.

You might also consider cards like Duress, Thoughtseize, or Inquisition of Kozilek to rip apart your opponents' hands.

While you may not want to net-deck, you may want to check out what are popular decks so you can tune your sideboard to match (or just go to your LGS and see what they play there).

legendofa on Is Anyone Else Concerned with …

1 year ago

My first reaction here was the Modern Horizons sets. They were made to shake of the format, and they did that a little too well. Ocelot Pride, Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury, Glaring Fleshraker, and Psychic Frog are some of the newest examples, and they pretty much immediately jumped to to the top of a bunch of different power formats. All of the 60-card eternal formats have key cards that got their first print with the last two years, and bans are happening more often than ever.

The bar is definitely being pushed. I just wish supplemental sets wouldn't push it quite so hard. Orcish Bowmasters and The One Ring also need a mention here.

ash_whi on Modern Dimir Nightmare

1 year ago

I like the Psychic Frog inclusion, especially with Bloodghast. With Grief unfortunately banned, I think Satoru gets quite a bit worse. Definitely something here, though

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