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Genghis Frog
Legendary Creature — Frog Mutant Rogue · {G}{U} · Green/Blue commander
Trample
Whenever Genghis Frog or another Mutant you control enters, create a Mutagen token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.")
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What Genghis Frog actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever Genghis Frog or another Mutant you control enters, create a Mutagen token.
- Keyword · trampletrample
What a Genghis Frog deck needs
Plays as mutant typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- creatures and permanents entering every turn — cheap bodies, blink and recursion (its trigger fires on each one)
- mutant creatures (its text counts them)
The Genghis Frog deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Genghis Frog
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Benthic Biomancer1 mana
- Evolution Witness3 mana
- Cloudfin Raptor1 mana
- Aberrant2 mana
- Biomancer's Familiar2 mana
- Merfolk Skydiver2 mana
- Michelangelo, Weirdness to 112 mana
- Mutagen Man, Living Ooze2 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Eternal Witness3 mana
- Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
- Arboreal Grazer1 mana
- Thousand-Faced Shadow1 mana
- Reclamation Sage3 mana
- Rishkar, Peema Renegade3 mana
- Wood Elves3 mana
- Badgermole Cub2 mana
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Gossip's Talent2 mana
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling4 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Voyager Staff1 mana
- Jill, Shiva's Dominant // Shiva, Warden of Ice3 mana
- Deadeye Navigator6 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
- Emerald Charm1 mana
- Naturalize2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Desynchronization4 mana
- Wave Goodbye4 mana
- Whelming Wave4 mana
- Consuming Tide4 mana
- Oversimplify5 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Needle Storm3 mana
- Evacuation5 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
Combos with Genghis Frog
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Genghis Frog is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Genghis Frog + Maskwood Nexus + Quina, Qu Gourmet35 decks
- Genghis Frog + Artificial Evolution + Quina, Qu Gourmet22 decks
- Genghis Frog + Leyline Of Transformation + Quina, Qu Gourmet21 decks
- Genghis Frog + Arcane Adaptation + Quina, Qu Gourmet13 decks
- Genghis Frog + Maskwood Nexus + Stridehangar Automaton9 decks
- Genghis Frog + Xenograft + Quina, Qu Gourmet9 decks