Gitrog, lord of SO MANY COMBOS

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Budget Combo Competitive Dredge Infinite Combo

Yoshisaurus

Land (42)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Artifact (6)

• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Zuran Orb

Creature (21)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Noose Constrictor
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Wild Mongrel

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Syphon Life
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Commander (1)

Instant (13)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Geth's Verdict
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Snuff Out

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Squandered Resources

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Sideboard

Instant (1)

• 1x Ebony Charm

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Maybeboard

Creature (4)

• 1x Centaur Vinecrasher
• 1x Groundskeeper
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Shambling Shell

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Worm Harvest

Instant (2)

• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim

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This deck is so complicated. I need to write a primer for it, but honestly I don't even realize its full potential. It's a work in progress so bear wi- ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD!

Combo Central

Main Phase Infinite Black/Green Mana

Dakmor Salvage is our main combo piece. Dakmor Salvage + Skirge Familiar essentially produce infinite black mana if The Gitrog Monster is on the table. If you don't have Skirge Familiar available, then the simplest way to get infinite mana is to simply find any of the following and play it over and over again as you dakmor loop through your library with a discard outlet:

• Lotus Petal = infinite green/black
• Dark Ritual = infinite black
• Cabal Ritual = infinite black
• You could also go instant speed of either color, look at the cleanup phase infinite mana sections for more info.
• I'm also testing to figure out exactly how to go infinite with Lotus Cobra and Crop Rotation. I feel like it could potentially work, I'm just not sure how exactly to set it up. It could also potentially set up a win on its own with Sunscorched Desert.

Cleanup Phase Infinite Black Mana

The beauty of this is that even if you only have The Gitrog Monster and Dakmor Salvage you can simply win at the cleanup phase (assuming you have more than seven cards in hand):

Draw your deck (see that section)

Discard Skirge Familiar

Use Necromancy to reanimate Skirge Familiar

Discard any nonland card, then discard Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

Keep dredging Dakmor Salvage for infinite black mana. With two card in you graveyard, you'll just dredge your library every time you discard Dakmor, and since one of them is Ulamog it'll just shuffle those two cards right back into you library immediately, so rinse > repeat > profit).

Or you could, you know, also just recast the rituals a bunch of times, but where's the fun in that :P

Winning with Infinite Black Mana

There's sorcery speed and instant speed:

Sorcery Speed:

Just cast Syphon Life a bunch of times, retracing it. The pro here is if you find Raven's Crime first you can ensure that your opponents have nothing in their hand to stop you combo.

Instant Speed:

Dredge things away until you're left with Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre, Geth's Verdict, and a land. Then dredge Dakmor Salvage until you end up with just Ulamog and the land in you graveyard, drawing verdict and casting it in response to Ulamog's shuffle trigger. Keep doing this until you win! If opponents sacrificing creatures is an issue in you meta, Ebony Charm is a great replacement. Otherwise, Verdict is definitely a better choice simply because pre-combo it's potentially useful removal.

Cleanup Phase Infinite Green Mana

Infinite green mana with Riftsweeper. Here's the cycle:

• Current state: zero green mana, Riftsweeper in hand, Necromancy in hand, Culling the Weak in hand, ESG in exile, infinite black mana, infinite draw triggers.
• Discard Riftsweeper, Necromancy (as an instant) on Riftsweeper, Riftsweeper ETB, Elvish Spirit Guide to library, draw ESG, exile ESG, one green, Culling the Weak sacrificing Riftsweeper, Riftsweeper and Necromancy to graveyard, discard Kozilek, draw library with draw triggers.
• New state: one green mana, Riftsweeper in hand, Necromancy in hand, Culling the Weak in hand, ESG in exile, infinite black mana, infinite draw triggers.
• Cycle complete, rinse > repeat > infinite green mana > profit.

The Coolest Way to Win (requires infinite green)

Use Crop Rotation to switch between Sunscorched Desert until you ping everyone to death. Watch everyone's reaction as they get killed by a land that pings for one.

Still working on the ideal setup to make this work efficiently.

Thank you!

A huge thank you to everyone at cEDH, who showed me the true ways of ALL HAIL HYPNOTOAD.

Also, a huge thank you to razzliox for his primer, where he explains many of the intricacies of his very similar deck:

http://www.5colorcombo.com/posts/RBi8y7W0VY

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 22 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.28
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G
Folders	Gitrogs, EDH Brewery