Summary

• Frogs in Magic: The Gathering are underappreciated, but there are some fantastic Frog cards worth celebrating.
• Froghemoth is a powerful mono-green creature for slower Magic formats, offering graveyard exile and bonuses.
• The Gitrog Monster and other Frog cards provide unique gameplay mechanics and great value for players.

Creature cards in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering come in many forms, with over twelve thousand creatures currently printed in the game. While many types, such as Elves, Goblins, and Zombies, have seen a plethora of support across the game's history, others have only been seen occasionally, much to the dismay of their loyal fans.

Frogs are one such creature type. Despite their near-universal appeal, owing to their signature odd combination of cute and horrifying vibes, Frogs haven’t received much support at all oveไr the years. That said, there are some fantastic Frog cards out there, and we want to celebrate them here today. So hop in, and join us on a tour of Magic’s finest amphibious allies.

Updated August 16, 2024, by Sean Murray: Magic's most recent sets have added so many new Frogs that we just had to update this list to appropriately represent them.

14 Uur𓆏g, Spawn Of 𒈔Turg

Not to be confused with Uurd, Spawn of... nevermind.

Following in the legendary Frog tradition of caring about lands in your graveyard, Uurg scales its power based on how many you have there, while also serving as a sacrifice outlet for the lands you have in play. At first glance, this doesn’t seem like a very efficient use of your land cards, but when you consider lands with enter-the-battlefield effects, as well as the ample land recursion options available, things get a lot more interesting.

Sacrificing a Bojuka Bog, only to bring it back next turn to exile another player’s graveyard, all the while gaining two life, is a great use case for Uurg, and it’s only the tip of the Froggy iceberg. In a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:dedicated lands-matter deck, this Frog is a key piece of the puzzle.

13 ⭕ Poison Dart Frog ꦫ

Just remember: it's only poisonous if you try to eat it. Or touch it. Or if it licks you. Or if you lick it.

This Frog does it all. Sure, it's a little 1/1, but it's got reach, can produce any color of mana, and with a slight investment, it can trade with another creature in combat. All this for just one green and one generic mana.

Sure, you won't see Poison Dart Frog appear in many eternal formats, and even that much utility might not be enough for Modern, but in slower Magic: The Gathering formats like limited or Commander, this little guy is an easy addition. Plus, how can you say no to that adora༺ble smile?

12 Grolnok, 𒈔The Omnivore

It eats everything.

Grolnok, the Omnivore is a powerful Simic-aligned (blue/green) Frog commander. A 3/3 for four mana, whenever Grolnok or another Frog controlled by its owner attacks, its controller 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:mills three cards. In addition, whenever a permanent card is put from Grolnok’s owner’s library i♉nto their graveyard, that card is exiled with a croak counter on it.

Since Grolnok allows exiled spells and lands with croak counters to be played, it can offer incredible card advantage, p💟rovided you have a fighting force of Frogs ready to attack each turn. As a great final touch, these croak counters remain on exiled cards even if an opponent removes Grolnok, meaning they can still be cast once Grolnok is replayed from the command zone later.

11 Froghemoth ꦅ

A lover of very aggressive hugs.

Printed in the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set, Froghemoth is a mono-green 4/4 with trample and haste for five mana. Whenever it deals combat damage to an opponent, you can exile a number of cards from that opponent's graveyard equal to the amount of damage dealt.

This is a great way of repeatedly removing cards from an opponent's graveyard, part🦄icularly since you receive some nice bonuses while you do so: whenever a creature card is exiled this way, a +1/+1 counter is put on the Froghemoth, and whenever a noncreature card is exiled this way, you gain one life.

10 Yar🙈gle and Multa💟ni

Gnshhagghkkapphribbit.

Magic has a lot of big creatures: Krakens, Colossi, Dragons, Dinosaurs, Wurms, Eldrazi, and the list goes on. But very few provide the sort of power Yargle and Multani provide at such a low price.

For just six mana (three generic, two black, and one green) you get 18 power. Sure, Yargle and Multani only have six toughness and will die to basically any removal spell that's not direct damage, but who cares? You get three times as much power as you would if you had cast a run-of-the-mill Dragon. Throw on a Loxodon Warhammer and you're suddenly able to take out enemies in a single swing.

9 Glarb, Calamity's Augur

Who says Frogs can't be glamorous?

Bloomburro🅠w has brought a lot of g♔reat new Frogs to Magic. The first to enter this list is Glarb, Calamity's Augur, a three-mana potential commander who can trade favorable in combat and also Surveil two cards deep to play either lands or spells t💦hat cost four or greater from the to♌p of your library.

In Commander at least, most decks don't feel like they come online until achieving four mana, and Glarb knows this. Get Glarb onto the table and this Noble Frog Wizard will start sucking out lands and casting big spells all on his own.

8 🍌 🐻 Helga, Skittish Seer

She sees the way to casting big creatures.

Our second potential Frog commander to come out of Bloomburrow is Helga, Skittish Seer. Much like her former teacher, Glarb, Helga is mostly concerned with spells that cost four or more mana, but Helga narrows her focus to strictly creature spells. The benefit for casting those higher-costed creatures is arguably greater, though, as Helga draws a card, gains a life, and gets a +1/+1 ꦑcounter for each of these creatures cas𒆙t.

On top of all that, Helga can even help ramp out some of these high-cost creatures by tapping for mana. This makes Helga an ideal choice for any creature-loaded꧙ Commander deck in Bant colors (green, white, and blue).

7 The Gi𒉰trog Monster

Sacrifices must be made to appease this monstrous Frog.

An incredibly popular black/green 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Golgari commander option, The Gitrog Monster is a 6/6 Frog Horror with deathtouch for five mana. While the Gitrog Monster is sacrificed at the beginning of its owner's upkeep unless they sacrifice a land, the card offers multiple potent upsides to offset this drawback.

Firstly, as long as the Gitrog Monster is in play, its controller is able to play an additional land on each of their turns, fuelling the need to sacrifice lands. Those lands are then converted into card advantage, as The Gitrog Monster lets you draw a card whenever one or more of your lands are put into your graveyard!

6 ജ Spore Frog

You can't hit what you can't see.

An incredibly underrated green Frog that sees play in the Pauper and Commander formats, Spore Frog is a humble 1/1 for a single green mana. The appeal of Spore Frog comes in the form of its activated ability, which allows it to be sacrificed at instant speed to provide a fog effect, preventing a📖ll combat damage that would be dealt in a 𝓰given turn.

When paired with consistent graveyard recursion cards found in Commander decks built around creatures like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Meren of Clan Nel Toth, Spore Frog can allow its controller to essentially prevent damage that would be dealt to them every turn, keeping them alive long enough to enact whatever shenanigan💧s they have in mind.

5 Frogmite

Free frogs for all!

While Frogmite may not seem like much at first glance, being nothing more than a colourless 2/2 artifact creature for four mana, this common Frog is actually deceptively powerful. This is due to Frogmite's single ability: affinity for artifacts, which means that Frogmite's mana cost is reduced by one for each artifact you control.

When paired with low mana cost artifacts, and artifact lands, Frogmite’s mana cost can easily be reduced to zero, essentially allowing this Frog to function as a free-to-play 2/2 in eternal formats like Pauper.