Sylvan Safekeeper can help protect gitrog and draw you a card at the same time.

Have you considered Glacial Chasm? Leaves you untouchable while you accrue advantage, and it's easy as hell to turn off with Gitrog. Strip Mine comes to mind as well, lets you run the gamut on land destruction.

I really like this deck! I've only played against three different ones irl but the style and play is very neat.

Now, I don't see any problems with it, other than CMCs. I really think you should have a few more higher cost cards because of late game shit going down. Then again, I haven't really played this deck before. Other than that, I don't see anything wrong here. Also, you should replace a few of the lands with basics, because having less basics is never a good thing, especially when you're only playing two colors.

Hope you take this advice into consideration. Have a good day!

thanks for the recent comments!

Faytl: Glacial Chasm is a great card, but I'm not sure I want to turn off my creatures. I will certainly keep it in mind next time I'm doing a major update. As for Strip Mine, I don't want to go on a major land destruction plan. I am mainly playing to have fun, mass land destruction flies in the face of that. Having the best deck doesn't mean much when people only sit down to play against you 2 times a week.

GamerBraven: Definitely see what you mean with the cmc point, I will look around to find some more X spells to sink all that mana into. As for basics, the only reason to run more, in my mind, is to always have a fetch target. If I'm failing to find a basic, that means they are all in play, so I think I'm winning at that point.

Alright man. Thanks for listening. Glad I could help out the least bit I could.

Not a huge fan of Mirrorpool in this deck. Too much necessitated colorless mana. Westvale Abbey  ^Flip seems gimmicky and unnecessary, probably weighing down your plan. It's up to you on whether to run it, but it feels awkward. I kinda get it with the Pack Rat and everything, though. I don't like necessary colorless mana. It's really weird.

Strip Mine and Tectonic Edge are HUGE must-plays in this deck, especially if you have the full Crucible of Worlds + Life from the Loam setup. Also a fan of running Barren Moor + Tranquil Thicket solely because you're a Hypnotoad deck, meaning that one Cycle will become two cards. Blighted Woodland will serve you well, too, as it weeds out basics and triggers Frogman.

You said you don't want to play Land Destruction, but: Consider the following. Land destruction is not your primary win condition. It is a backup. Always have a backup.

Moonlight Bargain is so sloooow, why run it? If you want to get silly with adding lands to your hand for nothing, play Ad Nauseam. Commune with Nature is really good for Creature/Land decks.

Personal preference, not a fan of extremely high-cost cards. I usually curve out at 7 so staring down Praetor's Counsel is a bit intimidating haha. I'd rather have incremental, grindy advantage over that, though. Overwhelming Stampede is also unnecessary. You're a grindy deck, not a #yolo deck!

Sir why is Ob Nixilis, the Fallen not here. he can win the game alone next to a gitrog.

I usually find a gitrog commander calls for atleast 42 lands. I personally don't have a Crucible of Worlds so I play a lot more Search for basic lands/ Search graveyard but that's just because I don't have the money.

Really nice deck tho :) its pretty cool seeing a major difference in creatures to mine

Gitrog Feeding Frenzy

You could definitely benefit from Drownyard Temple and Blasted Landscape, as well as Harrow, Constant Mists, and Tilling Treefolk.

Time for another update, kinda.

IrateWarrior: I like the idea of Old-Ob, I think I'll try to pick one up next chance I get. I think the number of lands is good at the moment, but I'm open to adding a few more.

Kala: Drownyard Temple is a good idea, but I don't think I need more colorless specific mana. The only costs I have it in are single colorless, so I prefer colored mana production. Similar opinion on Blasted Landscape. Harrow is already in the list. I like Constant Mists, need to pick one up somewhere. I dont think I like Tilling Treefolk. Granted, it is great land recursion, but I cant really abuse its ETB effect as I have no way to recur it easily.

I didn't suggest Temple and Landscape for their mana production, they would be beneficial to your deck no matter what color they produced. Temple can provide draw, for mana, rather than land-loss, because it's recurrable, and cycling landscape can give you two cards, a two generic mana divination.

I agree with Kala Drownyard Temple is great fodder for either The Gitrog Monster effect or other card effects that allow land destruction so you can benefit off a free draw. Then bring it back because most of the time you will have ample lands to use, better to bring a card back for fodder next turn then leave lands unused

Well I went to EDH night at my LGS last night, and, other than having an irresponsible number of lands, blinking Dakmor Salvage back and forth worked really well, so I find myself agreeing on the Drownyard Temple, I just need to decide what to cut to make it fit.

I also swapped Moonlight Bargain and Overwhelming Stampede for Ulvenwald Hydra and Deadbridge Chant

For me I always have a few good turns with Rampaging Baloths, Terastodon, works very nice with Titania, Protector of Argoth for 3 draws plus 6 super strong tokens. and finally Hangarback Walker

If you have a lot of sac outlets, you should definitely replace Mindwrack Demon with Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest. Additionally, I'm not sure Behold the Beyond is that good in this deck - I can see how you attempt to gain +3 card of your choice + whatever the cards from Gitrog will be, but it's just a bit expensive for a few cards. I'd take out that, Praetor's Counsel and Plague Wind, all very high mana cards, and replace them with Necrotic Ooze, Quillspike and Devoted Druid; Make an infinitely stronger ooze and swing at the player of your choice for game :).

Suggestion: Null Brooch to help protect the oft-target Frog-God.

I see you have Skirge Familiar in your maybe board. I would definitely add it into the main maybe for Golgari Cluestone. You already have lots of ramp and draw and on top of just being good Skirge Familiar is infinite mana draw and grave storm with The Gitrog Monster and Dakmor Salvage. Also as removal and a possible win con Bitter Ordeal.

HarroHunter: The maybeboard in general is a list of reminders for cards I need to pick up at some point. I have Skirge Familiar on order, so it will go in at some point. I think I will put in Geth's Verdict or some other pinger spell like it as my win con, to make use of the infinite mana and draw. Dakmor Salvage + The Gitrog Monster doesnt kill with Bitter Ordeal, because you need permanents to enter the graveyard, not permanent cards. It only counts cards sent to the yard from play.

I think you are correct as far as what to slot it in for, the clue stone can probably get the axe safely.

Living Death is pretty good.

I agree, Living death is a phenomenal card, and I use it to great effect in my Meren deck. This deck, however, does not profit from it in the same way. My creatures are far less disposable in this deck, so I am more protective of them already. I may try it eventually as a substitute board wipe.

We actually run pretty similar decklist to each other. Mine focuses more on the draw/combo to win while yours is more of a beatdown kind of style from what I'm understanding as I go through it. Regardless, I did notice that you aren't running any massive way to draw a million cards at once, I do highly recommend Hermit Druid so that once you play Gitrog you maybe able to draw a fair amount of cards for all the none basic lands you end up pitching(Which most likely you'll get back on the field later). Also as just good cards for this kind of deck I'd recommend Wild Mongrel as another good discard outlet, and Lotus Cobra for some serious ramp when you're playing 2-3 lands a turn, or more.

If you want another frame of refrence of a Gitrog monster, here's my list. L-L-L-LAND COMBO!!!!!!

RnG_Joker: Lotus cobra Is a card that I have been considering for a while, I just haven't gotten around to getting one. Wild Mongrel seems like a good idea, I may try to grab one.

Hermit Druid, however, I don't think works the way you want it to. Because The Gitrog Monster says "whenever one one or more lands are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card." Because of this, if seven lands go to the yard, you still draw only one card. I find it to be more beneficial to have a bunch of ways to send one or two lands at a time to the yard.

I actually never realized that. Well at least I'm running gravestorm cards so I still feel comfortable about the OG Hermit druid xD but you do make a very valid point. Well I still do have a strong point for lotus cobra, works really well in all phases of the game, at least it will make 1-2 mana early game and a ton of mana late game, which usually wins you the game outright.

You might like Primal Command for multiple reasons as it both gives you protection from mill based decks as well as giving you general utility.

Hey! I found this deck through the commander forum. I've seen a couple of Gitrog decks recently, so I have a few suggestions based on what I've seen in those decks.

• Lands: Strip Mine, Wasteland, and Command Beacon. These three cards are powerful tools, and, when recurred with cards like Crucible of Worlds, are game-changing. Also, I would cut the land count down to 41 or 42. 43 is a bit high for just about any deck, I think.

• Tutors: Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Tutor, Sylvan Scrying, etc. With EDH being one of the least consistent formats, it's important to be able to get what you need. You're running black, so plenty of options are available.

• Endgames: Blightsteel Colossus Can one ever go wrong with this card? (Forget about Spelljack)

• Cards to remove: Sign in Blood, Evolving Wilds, Alhammarret's Archive.

Great deck! I didn't see anything big that I would remove other than those three cards, so you're on the right track. Again, I've seen a few of these decks around lately, so I'm just telling you what I've noticed those decks running consistently. Good luck with this!

Cool Deck! About the maybeboard, I would definitely run Solemn Simulacrum. Not only is it a very strong card overall, it also grabs an extra land. For a Gitrog deck, I can't imagine that you ever don't want an extra land. On Lotus Vale; I'm not sure it would be the right decision, since you have to sacrifice two lands to play it and that seems like a bad idea when you are sacrificing lands every turn anyways. As far as cards to add, I would think about Kozilek, the Great Distortion/Kozilek, Butcher of Truth since you probably won't be holding on to a hand for long. That being said, I know basically nothing about Gitrog commander, so everything I just said may be utterly ridiculous, but I guess I tried my best. Other than that it seems like a very fun deck. It's a little expensive for me, but it is probably quite interesting. Hope I was of some help!