Spring Splasher
Creature — Frog Beast
Whenever this creature attacks, target creature defending player controls gets -3/-0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.23
- EDHREC rank
- #17304
Spring Splasher puts a 1/1 frog token into play every time a permanent enters the battlefield under your control from a graveyard — that's a token engine stapled to recursion loops. Grolnok, the Omnivore decks flip cards face-down constantly and cash them in repeatedly, which means Spring Splasher isn't generating one or two frogs per game but a steady stream that snowballs alongside Grolnok's own counters.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grolnok, the Omnivore
Grolnok, the Omnivore's whole game plan is milling cards face-down and then casting them for free, triggering Spring Splasher on every permanent that claws back onto the battlefield — a single active Grolnok turn can produce half a dozen frogs before combat even begins.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spring Splasher is a Commander card through and through — its payoff scales with the volume of recursion and self-mill that 100-card singleton enables, and it's largely invisible in 1v1 formats where graveyard loops are slower and opponents interact more aggressively. In Standard and Pioneer it competes for a slot against proactive threats that don't depend on other cards already being in the graveyard, which is a hard sell. Pauper is where it could theoretically show up in a dedicated frog or mill-value shell, but no such archetype has emerged with enough consistency to make Spring Splasher a staple there either. Treat it as a Commander-only card and you'll never be disappointed by it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.23 bulk tier
At $0.23, Spring Splasher is bulk — grab a copy whenever you're placing a singles order and it won't move the total. Bulk commons and uncommons tied to narrow tribal or commander-specific niches rarely appreciate, so buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.