Pollywog Symbiote
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Ikoria: Lair of BehemothsIKO · #372
- Card type
- Creature — Frog
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.83 € · ★ 1.39 € · 2.33 $ · ★ 2.57 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 1
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Each creature spell you cast costs less to cast if it has mutate. Whenever you cast a creature spell, if it has mutate, draw a card, then discard a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Simon Dominic
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-04-24
Rulings
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.
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.
Players can cast spells and activate abilities after the triggered ability resolves but before the spell that caused it to trigger does.
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.
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.
