Are Frogs even real? [PRIMER]

Commander / EDH Budget Combo Frog GU (Simic) Primer Tokens

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Creature (40)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Adrix and Nev, Twincasters
• 1x Argent Sphinx
• 1x Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
• 1x Beast Whisperer
• 1x Burrog Befuddler
• 1x Elvish Archdruid
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Erdwal Illuminator
• 1x Esix, Fractal Bloom
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Froghemoth
• 1x Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
• 1x Haze Frog
• 1x Jade Avenger
• 1x Junk Winder
• 1x Leapfrog
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Moritte of the Frost
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Omnibian
• 1x Plaxcaster Frogling
• 1x Quirion Ranger
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rift Sower
• 1x Rootweaver Druid
• 1x Shimmer Dragon
• 1x Shrieking Drake
• 1x Soul of the Harvest
• 1x Species Gorger
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Trusted Advisor
• 1x Wavesifter

Land (35)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 14x Forest
• 13x Island
• 1x Littjara Mirrorlake
• 1x Quandrix Campus
• 1x Tanglepool Bridge
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Yavimaya Coast

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Fae Offering
• 1x Frogify
• 1x Kasmina's Transmutation
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Metamorphic Alteration
• 1x Puca's Mischief
• 1x Teferi's Ageless Insight
• 1x Ulvenwald Mysteries

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Croaking Counterpart
• 1x Curse of the Swine
• 1x Golden Ratio
• 1x Rise and Shine
• 1x Search for Tomorrow
• 1x Whelming Wave

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Ovinize
• 1x Polymorphist's Jest
• 1x Rampage of the Clans
• 1x Rapid Hybridization
• 1x Roiling Regrowth
• 1x Turn to Frog

Artifact (1)

• 1x Tamiyo's Journal

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Sideboard

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Legerdemain
• 1x Oversimplify

Land (2)

• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Vineglimmer Snarl

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cunning Evasion

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Maybeboard

Creature (43)

• 1x Altered Ego
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Angler Turtle
• 1x Biovisionary
• 1x Biowaste Blob
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Briarbridge Patrol
• 1x Chameleon Colossus
• 1x Clone
• 1x Coiling Oracle
• 1x Daring Sleuth  ^Flip
• 1x Diffusion Sliver
• 1x Dream Stalker
• 1x Feline Sovereign
• 1x Gladewalker Ritualist
• 1x Gor Muldrak, Amphinologist
• 1x Graf Mole
• 1x Guardian Gladewalker
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Krosan Warchief
• 1x Littjara Glade-Warden
• 1x Littjara Kinseekers
• 1x Lord of the Unreal
• 1x Mirror Image
• 1x Mistform Ultimus
• 1x Mistwalker
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pheres-Band Warchief
• 1x Progenitor Mimic
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Sakashima's Protege
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Spawnbroker
• 1x Spawning Kraken
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Tribal Forcemage
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Volo, Guide to Monsters
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodland Changeling

Sorcery (25)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Gone Missing
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Mass Appeal
• 1x Mercurial Transformation
• 1x Migration Path
• 1x Notorious Throng
• 1x Peer Pressure
• 1x Press for Answers
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Rampant Growth
• 1x Ravenform
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Replication Technique
• 1x Repudiate / Replicate
• 1x Reverse Engineer
• 1x Sakashima's Will
• 1x Shifting Loyalties
• 1x Spitting Image
• 1x Switcheroo
• 1x Temporal Spring
• 1x Thoughtcast
• 1x Thunderherd Migration

Artifact (9)

• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Moss Diamond
• 1x Replicating Ring
• 1x Simic Signet
• 1x Sky Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Curiosity
• 1x Transmogrifying Wand
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Land (8)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Lumbering Falls
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Simic Growth Chamber
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Temple of Mystery
• 1x Thornwood Falls
• 1x Woodland Stream

Instant (19)

• 1x Absorb Identity
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Confirm Suspicions
• 1x Confront the Unknown
• 1x Displace
• 1x Double Major
• 1x Expel from Orazca
• 1x Gift of Tusks
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Hour of Need
• 1x Incubation / Incongruity
• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Perplexing Test
• 1x Pongify
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Resculpt
• 1x Snakeform
• 1x Wings of Velis Vel
• 1x Wizard's Retort

Enchantment (16)

• 1x Arachnoform
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Descendants' Path
• 1x Fleeting Memories
• 1x Fowl Play
• 1x Garruk's Uprising
• 1x Ichthyomorphosis
• 1x Ongoing Investigation
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x The Bears of Littjara
• 1x Trail of Evidence
• 1x Ulvenwald Mysteries
• 1x Weirding Wood
• 1x Wilderness Reclamation
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner
• 1x Oko, Thief of Crowns

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Are Frogs even real? Let's find out!

Welcome to my stupid deck!

I have always liked Frog cards in Magic and always disliked playing Simic because it is always too powerful for nothing and becomes boring really rapidly (at least for me, don't feel attacked folks). So in the end, I've decided to create a deck around Frogs cards in Simic so that way I could finally enjoy playing with that guild colors!

Now that I had a theme I needed to find a Commander... which isn't easy, because there is no Frog commander in Simic (sorry Yargle). So I've stopped looking for it and thinking about this deck until Modern Horizon 2 previews were in motion. Then, Lonis, Cryptozoologist was previewed. When I first saw it I thought: "Nice! I love Clues, they were so much underappreciated and still need a lot of love and support from Wizard of the Coast", but then I thought: "Hey...what if I make Lonis, Cryptozoologist my commander for my Frog deck... he could be a detective investigating (pun intended) if Frogs are even real. Could such an awesome crypto creature really exist? It is the job of a Cryptozoologist to find out!"

And that's basically how that deck was built out.

But I know why you are here, you want to know what is in the deck and how to play it out.

Well... this isn't a fancy powerful deck at all and it is actually quite Janky, but it can sometimes get a win from nowhere.

The strategy is pretty simple:

A) Get Lonis out

For this strategy to work you will need to cast your Commander. So just generate and cast it!

B) Create Clues

Now that Lonis is out, cast your creatures.

You have a bunch of them and each of them will create you a Clue when it hit the battlefield and that your commander is out (remember step A).

You also have two combos in the deck that can allow you to generate INFINITE CLUES!!!!!!!

Combo 1: Lonis + Academy Manufactor + Shrieking Drake

Set-up:

To be able to do this combo you will need:

• Lonis, Cryptozoologist on the battlefield.

• Academy Manufactor on the battlefield.

• Shrieking Drake in your hand.

• Access to a single mana.

Steps to combo:

• 1) Cast Shrieking Drake.

• 2) This will trigger Lonis, Cryptozoologist and create a Clue.

• 3) But this will trigger Academy Manufactor and replace your Clue with a Clue, a Food and a Treasure instead.

• 4) Shrieking Drake trigger will ask you to return a creature to your hand. Return Shrieking Drake to your hand.

• 5) Sacrifice your new Treasure for a mana and repeat from step 1.

This Loop will give you INFINITE CLUES AND FOOD!!!

Combo 2: Lonis + Ashaya + Quirion Ranger

Set-up:

To be able to do this combo you will need :

• Lonis, Cryptozoologist on the battlefield.

• Ashaya, Soul of the Wild (without summoning sickness) on the battlefield.

• Quirion Ranger in your hand.

• Access to a single mana or at least a non-token creature without summoning sickness (this includes Ashaya).

Steps to combo:

• 1) Cast Quirion Ranger.

• 2) This will trigger Lonis, Cryptozoologist and create a Clue.

• 3) Tap Ashaya, Soul of the Wild for a Mana (since it is a Forest thanks to herself).

• 4) Activate Quirion Ranger ability and select herself to return as a "Forest" to your hand (since it is a Forest thanks to Ashaya, Soul of the Wild) and target Ashaya, Soul of the Wild as the creature to untap.

• 5) Repeat steps 1 to 4

This Loop will give you INFINITE CLUES AND LANDFALL TRIGGERS!!!

And to answer your question: Yes you can activate Quirion Ranger ability more than once each turn since each time you cast it, it is a new instance of the card that has no recollection of the previous ones.

If you can't combo, that is no big deal. Just cast creatures until you have a critical mass of Clues :)

You also have some creatures that bounce themselves or return other creatures to your hand so you can always recast a bunch of creatures.

And if you are a bit screwed in your draw, you can always crack your Clues for value.

C) ???

What the damn hell!!! I thought this was a FROG DECK, NOT A CLUE DECK!?

Hey, oh, calm down buddy.

I never said this deck was a Frog Tribal deck, just that it was a Frog investigation deck.

But yes the deck has a bunch of ridiculous Frogs in it don't worry about it.

But what do to with them you ask?

Well, why not exchange them with your friends so they can contemplate how awesome and incredible they are.

• Puca's Mischief and Legerdemain can help you with that.

Or why not transform their own creatures into Frogs? They were laughing at you when you played your Frogs, look who's laughing now!!!

• Croaking Counterpart, Frogify, Kasmina's Transmutation, Omnibian, Polymorphist's Jest and Turn to Frog can all help you with that!

D) Profit

Ok, but you said you could win with this deck and for now all I know is that there is a bunch of Frogs and Frog effects in the deck and that you can create clues. What's next?

Oh, good question my dear Watson.

Now. You. Win.

• Either you steal their stuff with Lonis, Cryptozoologist ability.

• Or you use those Clues and bash their heads wide open with them... that will give them a clue of how powerful Frogs are! You can do this with the help of one of those two finishers: Rampage of the Clans or Rise and Shine they will never see it coming... well at least the first time. But if your friends are stupid you might get away with this... each time ;)

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 2 Rares 21 - 3 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.29
Tokens	Boar 2/2 G, Centaur 3/3 G, Clue, Copy Clone, Elephant 3-3 G, Food, Fractal 0/0 GU, Frog Lizard 3/3 G, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Timeless Witness 4/4 B, Treasure
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