Thanks to Magic’s 33-year age, many cards that were once harmless have now become absolutely disastrous. Whether they lack the safety valves of Modern design or have drawbacks that are now easily bypassable, multiple cards have aged a little too well. This is exactly the case for Frenetic Efreet, an extremely subpar creature that now offers multiple two-card infinite combos.
MTG Frenetic Efreet
On its own, you’d be hard-pressed to run Frenetic Efreet in the average MTG Commander deck. Offering an overpriced body that can occasionally dodge removal, this creature is quite bad without additional synergy. With coin-flipping cards, however, Frenetic Efreet quickly becomes broken due to an oversight in old card design.
Without a tap clause or the now prevalent once-per-turn clause, you can activate Frenetic Efreet’s ability infinitely before resolving the first coin flip. While this doesn’t affect the Efreet itself, it absolutely breaks other cards that care about coin flips. The new Mystery Booster: Commander Edition card Chira, All In, for example, will grow infinitely big and create infinite tapped Treasures with the Efreet, easily setting up a win.
This is hardly the only combo Frenetic Efreet enables, however. Tavern Scoundrel, for example, will create infinite untapped Treasure with the Efreet, while Crackdown Construct or Okaun, Eye of Chaos can grow creatures infinitely large. Heck, you can even draw your whole deck with Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom, setting up a win with Laboratory Maniac or Jace, Wielder of Mysteries.
Thanks to this, Frenetic Efreet should be an auto-include in coin flip decks everywhere, but he sees a lot less play than you might expect. Appearing in only 46% of Okaun and Zndrsplt Partner decks according to EDHREC, there’s certainly more room for the Efreet to see play. The card also sees play in some Yusri, Fortune’s Flame and Krark, the Thumbless decks in cEDH.
Sadly, despite being a rather niche MTG card, Frenetic Efreet’s Reserved List status means it’s more expensive than it should be. That said, if you’re planning on building a coinflip deck, a $7.25 near-mint price tag is well worth the access to infinite coin-flipping.
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