Croaking Counterpart
Croaking Counterpart: Sorcery, Innistrad: Midnight Hunt. Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog. On Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Blue and green (UG)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID)
- Released
- 2021-09-24
- Collector number
- 215
- Artist
- Yeong-Hao Han
- Keywords
- Flashback
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About Croaking Counterpart
Croaking Counterpart is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue and green sorcery from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID), an expansion set released in September 2021. It is collector number 215 in that set, with art by Yeong-Hao Han. It costs {1}{G}{U} (one generic, one blue and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue and green. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (2021) to Innistrad: Double Feature (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.79 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Create a token that's a copy of target non-Frog creature, except it's a 1/1 green Frog.
Flashback {3}{G}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Frog is the sincerest form of flattery.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.79 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Croaking Counterpart by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Pioneer | Legal |
|---|---|
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Croaking Counterpart
Croaking Counterpart has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Magic Online Promos (PRM) #94082 | Rare | 2022 |
| Innistrad: Double Feature (DBL) #215 | Rare | 2022 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt (MID) #369 | Rare | 2021 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID) #215p | Rare | 2021 |
| Innistrad: Midnight Hunt Promos (PMID) #215s | Rare | 2021 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Croaking Counterpart, newest first.
- You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
- "Flashback [cost]" means "You may cast this card from your graveyard if the resulting spell is an instant or sorcery spell by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost" and "If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack."
- If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it's legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
- A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the chosen creature will also work.
- If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
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