Psychatog
Creature — Atog
Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Exile two cards from your graveyard: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2002
- Price
- $7.61
- EDHREC rank
- #18268
Psychatog can become arbitrarily large at instant speed by exiling cards from your graveyard and hand, making it a one-swing kill the moment your graveyard is loaded. Tormod, the Desecrator pairs naturally here — every exile trigger from Psychatog's activation generates a Zombie token, turning a single pump into a board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Psychatog is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and that's where its relevance lives. In Commander it slots into any Dimir or Sultai self-mill strategy as a late-game finisher — once your graveyard is stacked, one unblocked attack ends a player. Legacy sees it occasionally in reanimator-adjacent builds, though the format has faster threats that have largely pushed it out of competitive consideration. Vintage is legal but offers enough broken alternatives that Psychatog is nostalgia more than staple there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Tormod, the DesecratorPsychatogAltar of Dementia
Infinite self-mill; Near-infinite death triggers; Near-infinite ETB; Near-infinite LTB; Near-infinitely large creature until end of turn; Near-infinite sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Psychatog's specific role — instant-speed self-sizing through graveyard exile — doesn't have a perfect budget replica, but Consuming Aberration fills a similar "graveyard-as-resource" role in mill decks at a fraction of the cost, trading the instant-speed pump for passive scaling. If the goal is a one-shot combat threat in a Dimir shell, Tomebound Lich offers card filtering and lifelink on a smaller body, though it lacks Psychatog's ceiling entirely.
Price Context
Current price
$7.61 mid tier
At $7.61, Psychatog sits in the mid tier — reasonable for a niche combo finisher but high enough that you're paying a nostalgia premium on top of the mechanical value. It holds its price in self-mill Commander circles, but if you don't have a dedicated graveyard deck to back it up, the cost isn't justified.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.