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{"ops":[{"insert":{"card-link":"Grolnok, the Omnivore"}},{"insert":" allows you to be a sort of card advantage and combo enabler.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cephalid Illusionist"}},{"insert":" can be equip "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lightning Greaves"}},{"insert":" for 0 milling 2 cards, if you have your commander in play you can bounce the boots between the two to mill your entire library.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Hermit Druid"}},{"insert":" with no basic lands can put your entire library in the bin.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Basalt Monolith"}},{"insert":" with "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mesmeric Orb"}},{"insert":" can mill the library.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Leveler"}},{"insert":" has an etb effect to put your library in the graveyard.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thassa's Oracle"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Jace, Wielder of Mysteries"}},{"insert":", or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Laboratory Maniac"}},{"insert":" will win the game from this position. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Cut Your Losses"}},{"insert":" can mill half or your entire library.\nWhile "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Traumatize"}},{"insert":" or"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fleet Swallower"}},{"insert":" can only mill half.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Fraying Sanity"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Riverchurn Monument"}},{"insert":" act as mill doublers allowing you to mill your entire library from the four effects above. \nFraying Sanity is markedly worse at this task as it puts the cards in the graveyard at the endstep.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mirror-Mad Phantasm"}},{"insert":"\nAll these effects alone can help find combos or value pieces.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Poison Dart Frog"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Birds of Paradise"}},{"insert":" are specially typed dorks (frog and bird). \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Mockingbird"}},{"insert":" can clone a dork remaining as a bird.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Relic of Legends"}},{"insert":" makes your commander tap for mana. \n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Valley Floodcaller"}},{"insert":" can be used to create value by untapping birds and frogs every non creature cast.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Intruder Alarm"}},{"insert":" untaps your creatures on creature ETB.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Clement, the Worrywort"}},{"insert":" can be used to generate creature mana and gives all frogs creature mana. Also clement enables a bounce engine by casting creatures. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dour Port-Mage"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pond Prophet"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bellowing Crier"}},{"insert":" can help you generate cards or card quality.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kindred Discovery"}},{"insert":" draws you cards on frog ETBs.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Concordant Crossroads"}},{"insert":" haste enabler in green.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pollywog Prodigy"}},{"insert":" is a frog that is also a single card value engine.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":" is a permanent that can get a croak counter from our commander that we can use to get back something Grolnok cannot. It is also a decent target to bounce.\n\n\nNotes and considerations:\nWe might need more protection for the commander as this plan is so clearly focused around his effect, with no real backup.\n\nIt might be more efficient to just go hard into self mill more than the mana and bounce strategy. In my mind I think this could be ok as Grolnok can find alot of pieces to assemble an engine quickly. Also alot of mana is required to play some of the less efficient self mill strategies.\n\nI am running alot of non bird / frog dorks in this iteration because of Intruder alarm.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Retraction Helix"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Banishing Knack"}},{"insert":" could be a good idea with floodcaller allowing you to bounce every cast of a bird or a frog. This could work with Clement or Dour Port-Mage\n\nIm pretty sure clones copying Mirror-Mad Phantasm will allow you to give the clone the activated ability, activating it shuffles the clone into the library but puts a check to mill until you find the phantasm which you will not find. Milling yourself out.\nIf Mirror-Mad Phantasm is milled, Grolnok will trigger but before it resolves "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shifting Woodland"}},{"insert":" can become a copy of the Phantasm, then you can pay 1U to activate it. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Croaking Counterpart"}},{"insert":" is a good frog themed clone for the Phantasm.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Petal"}},{"insert":" is a great include as it is a free mana helping you cast thassas after you deck yourself.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paradigm Shift"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thought Lash"}},{"insert":" are pretty nutso cards for this sort of strategy probably too powerful.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Seeker of Skybreak"}},{"insert":" combos with mesmeric orb but you don't have a lot of good targets to untap.\n\nDISCLAMER:\nThis is just an experiment where i was showing a friend where id take a commander he has built this used mostly my intuition, I have never played with this build. I do not own these cards.\nI was just trying to show my friend the sort of combo oriented stuff frogs can do.\nThis is not the best pure gruulnok list. I wanted to play still some of the silly stuff.\n"}]}
Commander
Grolnok, the Omnivore
Whenever a Frog you control attacks, mill three cards.
Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it.
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them.
Whenever a permanent card is put into your graveyard from your library, exile it with a croak counter on it.
You may play lands and cast spells from among cards you own in exile with croak counters on them.
Legendary Creature - Frog

Commander
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Counters
Counters
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Draw
Mystic Remora
Cumulative upkeep (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays .
Enchantment

Pollywog Prodigy
Evolve (Whenever a creature you control enters, if that creature has greater power or toughness than this creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell with mana value less than this creature's power, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell with mana value less than this creature's power, draw a card.
Creature - Wizard Frog

Draw
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Finisher
Thassa's Oracle
When this creature enters, look at the top X cards of your library, where X is your devotion to blue. Put up to one of them on top of your library and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. If X is greater than or equal to the number of cards in your library, you win the game. (Each in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)
Creature - Wizard Merfolk

Finisher
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Floodcaller Engine
Floodcaller Engine
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Half your Library
Mirror-Mad Phantasm
Flying
: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library. If that player does, they reveal cards from the top of that library until a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into their graveyard.
: This creature's owner shuffles it into their library. If that player does, they reveal cards from the top of that library until a card named Mirror-Mad Phantasm is revealed. The player puts that card onto the battlefield and all other cards revealed this way into their graveyard.
Creature - Spirit

Half your Library
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Land
Boseiju, Who Endures
: Add .
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Channel — , Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Legendary Land

Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land

Land
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Mill
Riverchurn Monument
, : Any number of target players each mill two cards. (Each of them puts the top two cards of their library into their graveyard.)
Exhaust — , : Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Exhaust — , : Any number of target players each mill cards equal to the number of cards in their graveyard. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Artifact

Mill
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Protection
Tamiyo's Safekeeping
Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Instant

Protection
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Ramp
Ramp
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Recurable Interaction
Recurable Interaction
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Removal
Into the Flood Maw
Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.
Instant

Removal
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Worrywort Engine
Clement, the Worrywort
Vigilance
Whenever Clement or another creature you control enters, return up to one target creature you control with lesser mana value to its owner's hand.
Frogs you control have ": Add or . Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."
Whenever Clement or another creature you control enters, return up to one target creature you control with lesser mana value to its owner's hand.
Frogs you control have ": Add or . Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell."
Legendary Creature - Druid Frog

Worrywort Engine
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Also clement enables a bounce engine by casting creatures. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Dour Port-Mage"}},{"insert":" ,"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pond Prophet"}},{"insert":", "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Bellowing Crier"}},{"insert":" can help you generate cards or card quality.\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Kindred Discovery"}},{"insert":" draws you cards on frog ETBs.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Concordant Crossroads"}},{"insert":" haste enabler in green.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Pollywog Prodigy"}},{"insert":" is a frog that is also a single card value engine.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Eternal Witness"}},{"insert":" is a permanent that can get a croak counter from our commander that we can use to get back something Grolnok cannot. It is also a decent target to bounce.\n\n\nNotes and considerations:\nWe might need more protection for the commander as this plan is so clearly focused around his effect, with no real backup.\n\nIt might be more efficient to just go hard into self mill more than the mana and bounce strategy. In my mind I think this could be ok as Grolnok can find alot of pieces to assemble an engine quickly. Also alot of mana is required to play some of the less efficient self mill strategies.\n\nI am running alot of non bird / frog dorks in this iteration because of Intruder alarm.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Retraction Helix"}},{"insert":" or "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Banishing Knack"}},{"insert":" could be a good idea with floodcaller allowing you to bounce every cast of a bird or a frog. This could work with Clement or Dour Port-Mage\n\nIm pretty sure clones copying Mirror-Mad Phantasm will allow you to give the clone the activated ability, activating it shuffles the clone into the library but puts a check to mill until you find the phantasm which you will not find. Milling yourself out.\nIf Mirror-Mad Phantasm is milled, Grolnok will trigger but before it resolves "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Shifting Woodland"}},{"insert":" can become a copy of the Phantasm, then you can pay 1U to activate it. \n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Croaking Counterpart"}},{"insert":" is a good frog themed clone for the Phantasm.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Lotus Petal"}},{"insert":" is a great include as it is a free mana helping you cast thassas after you deck yourself.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Paradigm Shift"}},{"insert":" and "},{"insert":{"card-link":"Thought Lash"}},{"insert":" are pretty nutso cards for this sort of strategy probably too powerful.\n\n"},{"insert":{"card-link":"Seeker of Skybreak"}},{"insert":" combos with mesmeric orb but you don't have a lot of good targets to untap.\n\nDISCLAMER:\nThis is just an experiment where i was showing a friend where id take a commander he has built this used mostly my intuition, I have never played with this build. I do not own these cards.\nI was just trying to show my friend the sort of combo oriented stuff frogs can do.\nThis is not the best pure gruulnok list. I wanted to play still some of the silly stuff.\n"}]}




























































































