Amphibian Downpour
Enchantment — Aura
Flash
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copies become tokens.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature loses all abilities and is a blue Frog creature with base power and toughness 1/1.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons 3
- Price
- $2.79
- EDHREC rank
- #1225
Amphibian Downpour turns your entire board into 3/3 Frogs — permanently — while blanking whatever was threatening you, and it does that at sorcery speed for five mana in Simic colors. In a format where Medomai the Ageless and Clement, the Worrywort are building around creature types and value engines, a mass polymorph that sets everything to the same baseline is both a board wipe and a threat in one spell.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clement, the Worrywort
Clement, the Worrywort runs Amphibian Downpour because converting the table's creatures into uniform 3/3 Frogs feeds Clement, the Worrywort's ability to generate value off creature types entering play — suddenly your Frog tokens are the only things worth counting.
Grolnok, the Omnivore
Grolnok, the Omnivore wants every creature on the battlefield to be a Frog, and Amphibian Downpour does that job at scale — each newly minted Frog that dies will exile the top card of its owner's library, turning the spell into a delayed card-advantage engine under Grolnok, the Omnivore.
Tatsunari, Toad Rider
Tatsunari, Toad Rider triggers off each Frog entering the battlefield, so Amphibian Downpour hitting six or seven opposing creatures in one cast can produce an equal number of Toad tokens — a board wipe that simultaneously floods your side with bodies.
The Master of Keys
The Master of Keys cares about unlocking and controlling the board state, and Amphibian Downpour strips dangerous commanders and utility creatures of their abilities while giving The Master of Keys a clean, uniform board to work through.
Katara, Waterbending Master
Katara, Waterbending Master leans into Water Tribe and creature manipulation themes where Amphibian Downpour fits as both a tempo reset and a way to populate the battlefield with a specific creature type that synergizes with the deck's tribal payoffs.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Amphibian Downpour is a Commander card through and through — the five-mana sorcery speed is a real cost in faster 1v1 formats, but in a four-player pod where threats accumulate across three opponents, wiping abilities and stats while leaving you with Frogs is a powerful tempo swing. In Legacy and Vintage it's theoretically legal but sees no meaningful play; those formats move too fast for a five-mana sorcery that doesn't end the game on the spot. Oathbreaker is the one alternate format where Amphibian Downpour could see niche use, particularly in Simic planeswalker builds that can protect a board state reset with countermagic.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$2.79 cheap tier
At $2.79, Amphibian Downpour sits in the budget-playable tier — cheap enough that including it in any Frog-tribal or creature-manipulation deck is a low-stakes decision. Given its narrow tribal home and the fact that most of its demand comes from Grolnok, the Omnivore and Tatsunari, Toad Rider decks specifically, the price reflects the ceiling accurately.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Medomai the Ageless
- Clement, the Worrywort
- Grolnok, the Omnivore
- Tatsunari, Toad Rider
- The Master of Keys
- Katara, Waterbending Master
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.