One of the most hideously powered creatures MTG history... a creature I still see in my nightmares.
JP_the_Wanderer
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(13 votes)
After watching Pro Tour LA 2005, I heard Randy and Mike Flores talking about the playtest version of Psychatog. Apparently it used to just eat your library, like "Remove the top card of your library from the game: Psychatog gets +1/+1 until end of turn." To quote Mike: "That seems fundamentally flawed to me."
Amazing card.
Angerr
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(20 votes)
I would be smiling like that too if I were one of the most powerful creatures in the game...
stygimoloch
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(18 votes)
It's Zippy from Rainbow! Or his evil twin. God, Odyssey Block Constructed was obnoxious. You were with either the Tog or the Dog. Me? I was always a Wild Mongrel man, personally.
Equinox523
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Poor, poor Shadowmage Infiltrator. It probably would have been UB's main 3-drop if it hadn't been for this guy...
A highly versatile creature and the perfect finisher for its colors. The fact that it could eat both cards in the graveyard or in hand meant that it could do evil, evil things if allowed to go unblocked. The possibility that Wonder could be in hand made the threat of lethal damage even more viable. Cheap evasion-granting effects like Shadow Rift (with cantrip, no less) can simultaneously force it through the red zone, and give it more ammo to munch on.
One of the most dangerous creatures in Magic history.
True_Mumin
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
Good old Dr. Teeth! Simply one of the best critters in this whole game.
Arachibutyrophobia
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(13 votes)
I don't consider this the strongest creature in Magic history, nor is it in the top 10, or top 20 for that matter. But it's good as what looks like a 5/6 or stronger for three mana.
ValenRakdos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Psychatog + Void Maw = Infinite Attack. Card removed from game pumped back into graveyard to be removed again. and Void Maw gets Infinite Attack as well! With trample, as well.
True_Smog
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Propably the most iconic MTG creature.
ArtBell
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(12 votes)
If you're giving it less than 5 stars, you got Upheavaled and u mad.
Laguz
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(13 votes)
Odyssey block constructed was an exercise in boredom and frustration, and this was the reason why. The psychatog deck was both excruciatingly boring and ridiculously overpowered, and 80% of people ran it (the other 20% ran wild mongrel decks). Like someone said, you were either the tog or the dog.
Cute-Hydra
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(7 votes)
The light that stood against the evil dog, wild mongrel. Dr. Teeth you are truly a saviour.
WhiteyMcFly
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Void Maw doesn't work. Void maw only works with creatures that void maw itself removed.
Mill_Master
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(9 votes)
Gush is a super card to use with the Tog. Ruin your day pretty quick.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
It's almost eerie how Wizards seemed to had out of its way to print the cards for a deck around this guy. It worked out too well... like Urza's block.
fateprince
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
hey hey i remember this card!!! i think i have this card a long time ago... i didn't give much importance to this card...(afterall, im still a kid and im just starting to play this back then) i didn't think this would really be good;)) haha
JenBroness
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Hmm...Run with River of Tears? Blue mana on your opponent's turn, and black mana on your own. Pretty much how Psychatog decks work, no?
divine_exodus
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(6 votes)
Why so serious?
steelpommel
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
And just realized if you discard two cards to give him +2+2 and remove those two cards for another +1+1 making him a 4/5....then madness/threshold/don't care about graveyard/screw that guy who mills half your deck!
WOW as a kid I thought he sucked.
Kryptnyt
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
He always looked like the Goombas in the Super Mario Brothers motion picture. You know, the one nobody remembers. http://rigsamarole.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/super-mario-bros-movie-goomba.jpg
Gahoojin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Looks like Jack Skeleton to me...
penguinmage25
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Man.. that thing is creapy
neerajman
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I don't know if it's true, but I read on some article on some website that this may get a reprint in Dark Ascension. As if the last few Standards have been stagnant enough with Valakut then Caw-Blade complete with Jace, now they're doing this. As awesome a creature as this is, I sincerely hope it never gets reprinted. Imagining this in the same Standard as Forbidden Alchemy, Liliana of the Veil, Consecrated Sphinx, and Jace, Memory Adept makes me shudder to think how massive it could get in one turn. Come to think of it, could you imagine this thing and Jace's Archivist???
pedrodyl
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
I heard they were gonna make another cycle of atogs, like they did in Odyssey, except with enemy colors.
BorosGeneral
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
I hear to celebrate this reprint they are making a new block with a new rarity. The bullsh*t block with the bullsh*t rarity. He's the first card with this rarity in this block. I can't wait.
@MicrosizeMe: You do realize, that Psychatog does not interact with those cards in any way whatsoever?
TherealphatMatt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Truly, he was a god among 'Togs.
SomeGuy007
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Nikeyeia: You do realize he meant that he was playing against a Tog deck, right?
Arachnos
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(5 votes)
The scary thing is how well the two abilities sync together. Discard cards, then remove them from the graveyard for even more boost?
mtg_random
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(3 votes)
@JP_the_Wanderer Really, that worries me. The first thing i thought was swamp, turn, island ,dark rit, Psychatog, turn, swamp, doomblade blocker, mill library, swing for 20. How the hell does something so fundamentally broken make it as far as play testing.
Tiggurix
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
It's funny how this cycle of atogs become progressively worse the less blue and/or black they are. Compare this dude to Lithatog and Thaumatog and you'll see what I mean.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
At first glace this does not appear to be broken. I am an experienced player, I guess you just have to see it in action. Slapped into any deck, I doubt it would do well. But with the right cards around it, I could see it getting pretty fat (until end of turn).
I am not sure if it would do well today. Possibly, but there is allot of removal around to deal with it.
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy kills. Plain and simple. Late game, drop the four cards in your hand and exile that 20-card graveyard and BAM, you have something that can even kill Emrakul and come out unscathed.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Psychatog's Deck was nothing at all like the Cat-Blasph-trophemy that was Urza's Block. Not a single card that got banned from Urza's Block would have been ok, in ANY context imaginable while still keeping the game at all recognizable as "Magic: the Gathering".
Psychatog was strangely fortunate to be sure, and a lot of players were strangely unfortunate because of that, but individually, a great many of the Psychatog Decks' cards can have fairer homes found for them.
Drewskithelegend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how this card both enables combos and is a big beater as well. I wouldn't have thought this card to be that good when I first started playing but i found it in a box of old cards and I thought to myself "huh, that's potentially really disgusting" so I bought it and took it home. Then I heard about the combo with Upheaval and I just laughed. The card is broken and there are still uses for it to this day.
5/5
Aquillion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
@TheWrathofShane: The issue is that people would run it with Upheaval, so your removal (unless it only costs one mana) won't do you any good. All they have to do is trade off one-for-one counters or removal until they have eight lands out (filling their graveyard in the process), then tap all lands, Upheaval, play one land again, and play their tog. The next turn, unless you have a one-mana answer, they discard eight cards, exile their entire graveyard, and attack you for game. It doesn't matter that the boost only lasts one turn when it can get twenty power in an empty field.
It's both ridiculously effective and unbelievably boring to play against.
Even without that combo, this card is very good simply for the ability to discard at will -- all sorts of decks can benefit from that, especially if you're using Madness or reanimate.
ViashinoWizard
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
"Heeeeeere's Toggy!"
CovetousDragon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Psychatog is like "DO WANT!" ;)
Zeth4
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Everyone is talking about how it can combo with upheaval but i find it combos just as well (if not better) with morality shift.
just throw wonder in your deck and then swing with your flying psychatog while removing around 40 cards in your graveyard from the game for a simple one hit kill
Xandikins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Aaaah... Odyssey Block. My kindergarden of Magic :) Cards like Psychatog and Wildmongrel paired with ridiculous mechanics like madness, threshold and flashback were fantastic to teach me card advantage.
Therein lies the power of the Tog: your cards go a LONG WAY to feed him! And black-blue control was stupid powerful at the time. Tog, Circular Logic (or Counterspell, now that I think of it), FACT OR FICTION, Innocent Blood, Chainer's Edict, Undermine, Shadowmage Infiltrator... the list goes on! Good times.
So boring to play though. Spend the first turns saying "No" to your opponent, Upheaval, Tog, Win. Ugh. I played Blue-Green Madness myself. FIRST TURN: Careful Study, Two Rootwallas. WOOT!
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Amazing card.
A highly versatile creature and the perfect finisher for its colors. The fact that it could eat both cards in the graveyard or in hand meant that it could do evil, evil things if allowed to go unblocked. The possibility that Wonder could be in hand made the threat of lethal damage even more viable. Cheap evasion-granting effects like Shadow Rift (with cantrip, no less) can simultaneously force it through the red zone, and give it more ammo to munch on.
One of the most dangerous creatures in Magic history.
The light that stood against the evil dog, wild mongrel. Dr. Teeth you are truly a saviour.
WOW as a kid I thought he sucked.
http://rigsamarole.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/super-mario-bros-movie-goomba.jpg
The bullsh*t block with the bullsh*t rarity.
He's the first card with this rarity in this block.
I can't wait.
I was running Megrim, Liliana's Caress, Quest for the Nihil Stone, and other discardy goodness.
Needless to say, I laughed. Maniacally.
I am not sure if it would do well today. Possibly, but there is allot of removal around to deal with it.
Psychatog was strangely fortunate to be sure, and a lot of players were strangely unfortunate because of that, but individually, a great many of the Psychatog Decks' cards can have fairer homes found for them.
The card is broken and there are still uses for it to this day.
5/5
It's both ridiculously effective and unbelievably boring to play against.
Even without that combo, this card is very good simply for the ability to discard at will -- all sorts of decks can benefit from that, especially if you're using Madness or reanimate.
just throw wonder in your deck and then swing with your flying psychatog while removing around 40 cards in your graveyard from the game for a simple one hit kill
Therein lies the power of the Tog: your cards go a LONG WAY to feed him! And black-blue control was stupid powerful at the time. Tog, Circular Logic (or Counterspell, now that I think of it), FACT OR FICTION, Innocent Blood, Chainer's Edict, Undermine, Shadowmage Infiltrator... the list goes on! Good times.
So boring to play though. Spend the first turns saying "No" to your opponent, Upheaval, Tog, Win. Ugh. I played Blue-Green Madness myself. FIRST TURN: Careful Study, Two Rootwallas. WOOT!