Gitrog Land&Graveyard Combos

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Combo Loam Multiplayer Ramp Reanimator

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Land (42)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Khalni Garden
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Treetop Village
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wirewood Lodge

Creature (29)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Thief of Blood
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Viridian Joiner
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Wayward Swordtooth
• 1x World Shaper

Instant (6)

• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Curtains' Call
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Realms Uncharted

Commander (1)

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald

Artifact (7)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Abundance
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Sylvan Library

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Maybeboard

Creature (16)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Duskwatch Recruiter  ^Flip
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Emrakul, the Promised End
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Ishkanah, Grafwidow
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Seedborn Muse
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tireless Tracker
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker

Land (9)

• 1x High Market
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Tectonic Edge
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Artifact (7)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine
• 1x Sword of the Animist
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Zuran Orb

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Creeping Renaissance
• 1x Drown in Filth
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wave of Vitriol
• 1x Worm Harvest

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Asceticism
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Zendikar Resurgent

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x To the Slaughter

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The Gitrog Monster combines the three of the four themes I love most in EDH (Land-shenanigans , Graveyard-interaction & infinite combos; only Elf-tribal is falling a bit short with only 6 elves in the deck).

This deck seeks to abuse the absurd effect of its commander to draw a card, whenever a land enters your graveyard from anywhere, to draw into all the cards you need to win the game. Those are mostly powerful lands or (near) infinite combos.

While goldfishing I get a pretty reliable turn 7 combo-kill or Marit Lage. Nevertheless, since this is a first prototype of the deck that hasn't seen any real-life playtesting yet, I couldn't say how susceptible the deck is to interaction. (I imagine stuff like Relic of Progenitus or Rest in Peace might be a pain in the a..)

I feel, I am not playing enough control and am focussing to much on combos. Also it might be a good idea to cut some of the lands and add a couple more basics.

Please leave your opinion about the deck and its configuration in the comment section, and give it an up-vote if you have some love for the big bad Frog-Monster that likes to chomp on human corpses :D

In the maybeboard there are some options I consider that would change the style of the deck a bit. But I am really not sure what to cut.

"Powerful lands" (Marit Lage)

• Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage
• Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage
• Dark Depths + Thief of Blood

Endless Mana

• Umbral Mantle + Viridian Joiner
• Argothian Elder + Gaea's Cradle + Wirewood Lodge with at least 1 other creature on the battlefield.
• Argothian Elder + Golgari Rot Farm + Wirewood Lodge
• Argothian Elder + Umbral Mantle + any two lands that together produce at least : Lands/land-combinations that can do this are Gaea's Cradle, Golgari Rot Farm and Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Both Umbral Mantle-combos do also work with Necrotic Ooze, when the corresponding creature is in the graveyard (and the other conditions are met).

Payoffs for (endless/a lot of) Mana

• Dark Depths
• Walking Ballista just shoot them.
• Umbral Mantle + Viridian Joiner in itself is a threat, to anyone who doesn't have a blocker up.
• Treetop Village + Umbral Mantle same, but tramples over those pesky creatures without hesitation.
• Dakmor Salvage + Pack Rat + The Gitrog Monster all the rats.
• Dakmor Salvage + Raven's Crime + The Gitrog Monster they have no hands anymore.
• Dakmor Salvage + The Gitrog Monster + Worm Harvest harvest all those worms.
• the last three combos also work with any other land in hand, if you have Abundance out.
• Ever After + Fleshbag Marauder + Sidisi, Undead Vizier they have no creatures anymore.
• But also just dropping all your spells can be very strong, since this deck plays a lot of good value.

"Insta-Win" endless Mana and Damage

Necrotic Ooze + Walking Ballista + Viridian Joiner + Devoted Druid + . (Lightning Greaves and Buried Alive are optional.)You want Devoted Druid + Viridian Joiner + Walking Ballista in your graveyard to empower the ooze (that's what Buried Alive can do for you). Then you put a +1/+1 counter on the ooze, using the and then it is Game Over. Ooze tapps for untapps by putting a -1/-1 counter on itself (aka removing a +1/+1 counter) and puts a +1/+1 counter on itself for : incoming, which means endless +1/+1 counters, which means endless damage. If you have two lands out that can produce together, you can also use Argothian Elder instead of Viridian Joiner

Other combos/synergies

• Crucible of Worlds + Wasteland and its substitute Ghost Quarter + Ramunap Excavator
• Dakmor Salvage + The Gitrog Monster
• Drownyard Temple + The Gitrog Monster
• Dryad Arbor + Meren of Clan Nel Toth + The Gitrog Monster
• Misty Rainforest + The Gitrog Monster or any other fetch- or cycleland.

The dredge package

• Dakmor Salvage + Skirge Familiar + The Gitrog Monster
• Barren Moor + Life from the Loam + The Gitrog Monster or any other cycle land and endless/a bunch of mana.

These combos let you mill your whole deck and get a bunch of cards in your hand. Then you can get the Necrotic Ooze-insta-kill-combo into play. If you have a way to get lightning greaves onto the BF you win on the spot / otherwise just put two creatures onto the Library with Volrath's Stronghold (Endstep and Upkeep before the sac/draw trigger from The Gitrog Monster) and you have a chance at winning the next turn.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Crucible of Worlds + Wasteland Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth Umbral Mantle + Viridian Joiner Dark Depths + Vampire Hexmage Dakmor Salvage + The Gitrog Monster Dakmor Salvage + Skirge Familiar + The Gitrog Monster Dark Depths + Thief of Blood Argothian Elder + Umbral Mantle Dryad Arbor + Meren of Clan Nel Toth + The Gitrog Monster Argothian Elder + Gaea's Cradle + Wirewood Lodge Argothian Elder + Golgari Rot Farm + Wirewood Lodge Treetop Village + Umbral Mantle Dakmor Salvage + Pack Rat + The Gitrog Monster Dakmor Salvage + Raven's Crime + The Gitrog Monster Dakmor Salvage + The Gitrog Monster + Worm Harvest Ever After + Fleshbag Marauder + Sidisi, Undead Vizier Devoted Druid + Viridian Joiner + Walking Ballista Ghost Quarter + Ramunap Excavator Drownyard Temple + The Gitrog Monster Misty Rainforest + The Gitrog Monster Barren Moor + Life from the Loam + The Gitrog Monster
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 44 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.47
Tokens	City's Blessing, Elemental 5/3 G, Elephant 3-3 G, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Marit Lage, Plant 0/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B