Git-Rock

Standard BG (Golgari) Rock

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Land (26)

• 1x Blighted Fen
• 4x Blooming Marsh
• 2x Desert of the Glorified
• 2x Desert of the Indomitable
• 2x Dunes of the Dead
• 3x Evolving Wilds
• 3x Forest
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Hostile Desert
• 2x Ifnir Deadlands
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Wastes

Creature (21)

• 3x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Rhonas the Indomitable
• 3x Sylvan Advocate
• 3x The Gitrog Monster
• 4x Thought-Knot Seer
• 3x Tireless Tracker
• 4x Wretched Camel

Instant (6)

• 4x Fatal Push
• 2x Spatial Contortion

Sorcery (4)

• 2x Transgress the Mind
• 2x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Planeswalker (2)

• 2x Nissa, Vital Force

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Crawling Sensation

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Sideboard

Sorcery (5)

• 2x Never / Return
• 1x Transgress the Mind
• 2x Yahenni's Expertise

Creature (5)

• 3x Jaddi Offshoot
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet

Instant (5)

• 2x Appetite for the Unnatural
• 3x Scarab Feast

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A midrange deck build around The Gitrog Monster.

Card choices

Lands:

• Desert of the Glorified + Desert of the Indomitable: Necessary evil to support
Wretched Camel and Ramunap Hydra. Also double card draw with The Gitrog Monster on the battlefield
• Dunes of the Dead: Same reason, desert + food for The Gitrog Monster
• Ifnir Deadlands: Desert + sac outlet for Dunes of the Dead and semi removal
• Hostile Desert : Manland, acts as a good suprise blocker and attacker

Creatures:

• The Gitrog Monster: Namesake of the deck, great card advantage. Survives Hour of Devastation and all other commonly played removal spells
• Ramunap Excavator : Brings back Lands sacced with Gitfrog
• Tireless Tracker: 26 lands to generate huge amount of clues. Him + Ramunap Excavator + The Gitrog Monster = unbeatable value engine
• Wretched Camel + Thought-Knot Seer: Discard on a stick to gain longterm advantage to get to the lategame
• Ramunap Hydra: Plays a great offense/defense game. I would play one more instead of a TKS if my meta wasn't full of control decks
• Rhonas the Indomitable: Giving Gitfrog trample feels great
• Sylvan Advocate: filling out the <3 slots in our manacurve, testing him on gameday

Tournament Section

First steps

I played the deck last Saturday (22.08.17) for the first time. Went 2-1 and played two matches vs U/R Control and one vs U/B Zombies.

• 2-0 U/R Control
• 2-0 U/B Zombies
• 0-2 U/R Control

Due to my meta being infested with Control decks, my sideboard included 4 Prowling Serpopard. Although i had access to these "silver bullets" i lost one of those matches against U/R Control. Funny enough, the second match i played i drew 3 of the Catsnakes and this was just not enough... their sweepers and removal spells dealing 3 damage made my cat look rly silly.

Both games against Zombies were close. I had a hard time dealing with their recurring threats.

Sideboard changes:

• -4 Prowling Serpopard
• +1 Scarab Feast
• +1 Transgress the Mind
• +2 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet in anticipation for the Mono R Aggro hype going around

Second Tournament

So, standard showdown this Saturday i got the same results, a 2-1 finish.Played:

• 2-0 Mono R Aggro
• 0-2 Mono R Eldrazi
• 2-0 Grixis Bolas Control

First game vs mono R was against my friend, who had actually no clue what i was on. He kept a two lander and never saw a third land, so i got pretty lucky. Game two a Jaddi Offshoot turn two plus never ending Evolving Wilds with Ramunap Excavator gained me enough life to execute the game plan, Ramunap Hydra playing offense and defense was pretty impressive that game.

Against Eldrazi... nothing to tell here. Got flooded both games. Kept hands with 3 spells and 4 lands and only drew lands. Chandra and her tentacle pets killed me rather quick.

Third match against another friend of mine. He switched from a world championship YU-Gi-OH player to magic 4month ago, so there were a few mistakes on his side, but i dont think those mistakes cost him the game. The camel, TKS and transgress the mind ripped his hand apart and the game end in my favor rather quick. I saw one gearhulk so i brought in the 2 appetites and 2 scarab feast and the last transgress.Game 2 was exactly like the first. Camel beatdown which got stopped by a sweltering suns cost him 2 cards in his hand. followed by 3 TKS.

Changes for next week:

• -1 World Breaker Never did anything good but being a big guy.
• -1 Hour of Promise The ramp provided did not help me cast anything good.
• +2 Sylvan Advocate The curve really starts turn three so i would like to have something on the board turn two. With only Push and Camel the interaction in the first few turn lacks a bit.
Edit:
• -1Dunes of the Dead instead +1Grasping Dunes for more early interaction
• -1Transgress the Mind instead +1Spatial Contortion I really would like to play Collective Brutality, but it doesnt kill Winding Constrictor

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is not Standard legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 2 Mythic Rares 20 - 4 Rares 15 - 1 Uncommons 11 - 8 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.74
Tokens	Clue, Emblem Nissa, Vital Force, Insect 1/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B