I started making this deck because I do not have a golgari commander deck and I own a copy of The Gitrog Monster. I did know before starting to make the deck that it's a powerfull card, as I have been destroyed by it during an FNM draft.

I decided to turn the deck into something that focusses on lands entering and leaving the battlefield. Besides the Hypnotoad the other stars are Titania, Protector of Argoth, Tireless Tracker and Rampaging Baloths.

A very nice card I discovered while searching is Squandered Resources (it showed up recently in one of the videos on the Command Zone as well)... that card is huge, especially when you combine it with Splendid Reclamation and/or Lotus Cobra.

Another great card is Baru, Fist of Krosa as it can pump nearly all my creatures and grant trample too. I have added Worm Harvest, which together with the land recursion can make Baru very dangereous.

With the release of Guilds of Ravnica I will definitely add Underrealm Lich to the deck. Initially I didn't have the Dakmor combo in the deck, but I have now added this as well. I didn't add the most important piece to make the combo go flawlessly: an eldrazi titan that shuffles the graveyard back into the deck when it goes to the graveyard. Why? 1) I don't have the card and 2) it adds a potential whiff to the deck which makes it more exciting. If my playgroup gets more competitive I may add try to obtain one though.

I appreciate all upvotes and comments. While I am not searching for help as I do think the list is okay, I always appreciate when someone brings up cool cards/interactions I might not have thought about.

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I decided to add the combo of Dakmor Salvage + free discard outlet.

I took out some big mana things, most of which were dead draws most of the time:

Guul Draz Overseer , Decimator of the Provinces , Harvester of Souls , Syndicate Trafficker , Aid from the Cowl , From Beyond , Retreat to Kazandu , Demon of Dark Schemes , took out also 2 forests and 2 swamps

I added:

Underrealm Lich

Gaea's Blessing to be able to reshuffle with Dakmor combo, if Underrealm Lich is on the field with the dakmor combo we can draw our whole deck as we can just throw Gaea's Blessing into the graveyard.

Noose Constrictor and Wild Mongrel + Dakmor Salvage for the combo

Primal Command as an extra way to shuffle the graveyard back in + versatility

Eternal Witness for recursion, so that what is lost may be found again.

Worm Harvest as an extra wincon

Homeward Path as a meta-call as there are plenty of steal effects in my group

Llanowar Elves and Bird of Paradise as extra ramp

Comments

91% Casual

Competitive

Date added 7 years
Last updated 6 years
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

11 - 0 Mythic Rares

30 - 0 Rares

19 - 0 Uncommons

14 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.26
Tokens Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Clue, Elemental 5/3 G, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Worm 1/1 BG, Wurm 5/5 G, Wurm */* G, Zombie 2/2 B
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