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The Gitrog Monster - community staples
The Gitrog Monster · BG · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 36Instants 14Sorceries 6Artifacts 4Enchantments 2Lands 37
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Strategy
The Gitrog Monster leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting extra lands onto the battlefield and getting paid for each one. The list holds 20 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 2.94.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Icetill Explorer and the other 20 ramp pieces exist to get The Gitrog Monster out well before its printed cost of 5 would allow.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Assassin's Trophy is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Six keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Golgari Charm for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 2.94 average mana value the top end is middling, which means most turns hold two spells.
Win conditions: Wins off the accumulated value of extra land drops.
- Ramunap Excavator - Core to the plan
- Life from the Loam - Core to the plan
- Sylvan Safekeeper - Core to the plan
- Icetill Explorer - Ramp
- Lotus Cobra - Ramp
- Noose Constrictor - Core to the plan
- Zuran Orb - Core to the plan
- Six - Card draw
~$724.79
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
The Gitrog Monster
Legendary Creature — Frog Horror
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land.
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.
Creatures (36)
Ramunap Excavator
Creature — Snake Cleric
$4.79
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Sylvan Safekeeper
Creature — Human Wizard
$6.49
Sacrifice a land: Target creature you control gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Icetill Explorer
Creature — Insect Scout
$19.66
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
You may play lands from your graveyard.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, mill a card.
Lotus Cobra
Creature — Snake
$6.03
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, add one mana of any color.
Noose Constrictor
Creature — Snake
$0.1
Reach
Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Six
Legendary Creature — Treefolk
$4.81
Reach
Whenever Six attacks, mill three cards. You may put a land card from among them into your hand.
During your turn, nonland permanent cards in your graveyard have retrace. (You may cast permanent cards from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying their other costs.)
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
Legendary Creature — Human Monk
$11.77
You may play two additional lands on each of your turns.
Titania, Protector of Argoth
Legendary Creature — Elemental
$0.28
When Titania enters, return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Whenever a land you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a 5/3 green Elemental creature token.
Golgari Grave-Troll
Creature — Troll Skeleton
$0.82
This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Scute Swarm
Creature — Insect
$8.37
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If you control six or more lands, create a token that's a copy of this creature instead.
Aftermath Analyst
Creature — Elf Detective
$0.71
When this creature enters, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
{3}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Putrid Imp
Creature — Zombie Imp
$2.12
Discard a card: This creature gains flying until end of turn.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +1/+1 and can't block.
Tireless Provisioner
Creature — Elf Scout
$2.32
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Deathrite Shaman
Creature — Elf Shaman
$4.69
{T}: Exile target land card from a graveyard. Add one mana of any color. (Activate only as an instant.)
{B}, {T}: Exile target instant or sorcery card from a graveyard. Each opponent loses 2 life.
{G}, {T}: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. You gain 2 life.
Rampaging Baloths
Creature — Beast
$0.28
Trample
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a 4/4 green Beast creature token.
Elves of Deep Shadow
Creature — Elf Druid
$4.42
{T}: Add {B}. This creature deals 1 damage to you.
Oracle of Mul Daya
Creature — Elf Shaman
$1.98
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Play with the top card of your library revealed.
You may play lands from the top of your library.
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.72
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Avenger of Zendikar
Creature — Elemental
$0.46
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Legendary Creature — Demon
$2.27
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.
Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$34.26
When you cast this spell, destroy target permanent.
Indestructible
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Ulamog is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
Ancient Greenwarden
Creature — Elemental
$12.18
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
You may play lands from your graveyard.
If a land entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Wild Mongrel
Creature — Dog
$0.22
Discard a card: This creature gets +1/+1 and becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
Legendary Creature — Eldrazi
$42.24
When you cast this spell, draw four cards.
Annihilator 4 (Whenever this creature attacks, defending player sacrifices four permanents of their choice.)
When Kozilek is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles their graveyard into their library.
World Shaper
Creature — Merfolk Shaman
$6.13
Whenever this creature attacks, you may mill three cards.
When this creature dies, return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
Enchantment Creature — Nymph Dryad
$9.39
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.
Elvish Spirit Guide
Creature — Elf Spirit
$2
Exile this card from your hand: Add {G}.
Springbloom Druid
Creature — Elf Druid
$0.12
When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Delighted Halfling
Creature — Halfling Citizen
$27.19
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.
Elvish Reclaimer
Creature — Elf Warrior
$4.23
This creature gets +2/+2 as long as there are three or more land cards in your graveyard.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice a land: Search your library for a land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
$4.18
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Instants (14)
Assassin's Trophy
Instant
$0.84
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Harrow
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Abrupt Decay
Instant
$1.11
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Crop Rotation
Instant
$3.45
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a land.
Search your library for a land card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.61
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Putrefy
Instant
$0.16
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Nature's Claim
Instant
$0.57
Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Its controller gains 4 life.
Grisly Salvage
Instant
$0.13
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Ad Nauseam
Instant
$9.86
Reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value. You may repeat this process any number of times.
Tear Asunder
Instant
$0.21
Kicker {1}{B} (You may pay an additional {1}{B} as you cast this spell.)
Exile target artifact or enchantment. If this spell was kicked, exile target nonland permanent instead.
Deadly Rollick
Instant
$27.67
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Golgari Charm
Instant
$0.77
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
Sorceries (6)
Life from the Loam
Sorcery
$5.18
Return up to three target land cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Dredge 3 (If you would draw a card, you may mill three cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Splendid Reclamation
Sorcery
$0.39
Return all land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Sylvan Scrying
Sorcery
$0.31
Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Culling Ritual
Sorcery
$0.56
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.
Unearth
Sorcery
$0.51
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Artifacts (4)
The One Ring
Legendary Artifact
$110.35
Indestructible
When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring.
{T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.
Horn of Greed
Artifact
$8.02
Whenever a player plays a land, that player draws a card.
Enchantments (2)
Sylvan Library
Enchantment
$26.41
At the beginning of your draw step, you may draw two additional cards. If you do, choose two cards in your hand drawn this turn. For each of those cards, pay 4 life or put the card on top of your library.
Phyrexian Arena
Enchantment
$3.87
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Lands (37)
Dakmor Salvage
Land
$0.29
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Dredge 2 (If you would draw a card, you may mill two cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)
Tranquil Thicket
Land
$0.11
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Barren Moor
Land
$0.16
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Boseiju, Who Endures
Legendary Land
$48.29
{T}: Add {G}.
Channel — {1}{G}, Discard this card: Destroy target artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land an opponent controls. That player may search their library for a land card with a basic land type, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
Legendary Land
$17.03
Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Shifting Woodland
Land
$7.07
This land enters tapped unless you control a Forest.
{T}: Add {G}.
Delirium — {2}{G}{G}: This land becomes a copy of target permanent card in your graveyard until end of turn. Activate only if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.
Strip Mine
Land
$10.71
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land.
Ghost Quarter
Land
$0.48
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Lotus Field
Land
$2.63
Hexproof
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice two lands.
{T}: Add three mana of any one color.
Basic lands: 7 Swamp 18 Forest
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