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Spore Frog

Creature — Frog

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
common
Set
Prophecy
Price
$0.61
EDHREC rank
#1123
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Spore Frog card art
Spore Frog blanks a full combat step for one green mana — a Fog stapled to a creature body that recurrable engines love. The cost is a creature slot and the fact that it does nothing outside of combat, but in the right shell, Zimone, Mystery Unraveler and Grolnok, the Omnivore treat that trade as trivially favorable.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Grolnok, the Omnivore

Grolnok, the Omnivore

84.2% of decks · synergy 0.79

Grolnok, the Omnivore mills Spore Frog into the graveyard and lets you cast it off a croak counter, meaning you get the Fog effect without ever spending a card in hand — an 84% inclusion rate across 7,000 decks reflects exactly how broken that loop feels at the table.

02
Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

75.9% of decks · synergy 0.70

Meren of Clan Nel Toth recurs Spore Frog on a fixed schedule, turning a one-shot Fog into a standing lock that fires every turn you accumulate experience — 76% of Meren decks run it for exactly that reason.

03
Clement, the Worrywort

Clement, the Worrywort

75.0% of decks · synergy 0.70

Clement, the Worrywort wants cheap creatures that generate value in the graveyard, and Spore Frog fills that role while also protecting Clement from the attacks that would otherwise end the game before the engine fires.

04
Muldrotha, the Gravetide

Muldrotha, the Gravetide

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.53

Muldrotha, the Gravetide replays Spore Frog from the graveyard once per turn as a permanent-type-legal creature play, making a single copy function as a repeatable combat lockout against any deck that can't answer both Muldrotha and the Frog simultaneously.

05
Six

Six

51.6% of decks · synergy 0.48

Six rewards low-mana creatures with consistent rebuy effects, and Spore Frog slots in as a one-drop that pulls meaningful duty on defense while feeding the graveyard recursion loops Six is built around.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Spore Frog earns its reputation — recursive commanders make a single copy a permanent Fog, and at one mana it never stresses the curve. In Pauper it sees fringe play as a combat trick in creature-heavy shells, though the format's speed limits how often you want to spend a mana doing nothing offensive. Legacy and Vintage are legal but uninterested: those formats end games through stack interaction and non-combat damage fast enough that blanking an attack step is rarely the right answer. Pioneer and Standard don't have access to it at all, which is a non-issue given where the card's actual power lives.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.61 bulk tier

At $0.61, Spore Frog is bulk in price only — the demand from Meren, Muldrotha, and Grolnok lists keeps it from dipping lower despite being a common. It's a safe pickup at this price; the combination of wide Commander demand and a narrow functional role means it sits stable rather than spiking or cratering.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.