Pollywog Symbiote
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Each creature spell you cast costs 1 less to cast if it has mutate.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, if it has mutate, draw a card, then discard a card.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
Pollywog Symbiote’s first ability applies to creature spells you cast that have mutate even if you don’t cast them for their mutate cost. Similarly, its second ability triggers even if the creature spell with mutate was cast for a cost other than its mutate cost.
- 2020-04-17
Effects that reduce the generic mana cost of a spell (such as that of Pollywog Symbiote) can’t reduce that spell’s colored mana requirements.
- 2020-04-17
Players can cast spells and activate abilities after the triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does.
- 2020-04-17
You draw a card and discard a card all while Pollywog Symbiote’s ability is resolving. Nothing can happen between the two, and no player may choose to take actions.
- 2020-04-17
An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Pollywog Symbiote, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kotis, the Fangkeeper | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Sultai 1 deck
Every version of Pollywog Symbiote
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
- Normal
- $2.58
- Foil
- $2.58
- Normal
- $0.22
- Foil
- $0.36
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Pollywog Symbiote. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
