The Gitrog Monster Commander

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari)

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Land (40)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Deathcap Glade
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Caverns
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Petrified Field
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Strip Mine
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Creature (22)

• 1x Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Wild Mongrel

Artifact (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jeweled Lotus
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Resilience

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Ayula's Influence
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Wild Growth

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dig Up
• 1x Explore
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Battle (1)

• 1x Invasion of Ikoria  ^Flip

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Land (4)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Artifact (2)

• 1x Conduit of Worlds
• 1x Zuran Orb

Creature (3)

• 1x Augur of Autumn
• 1x Endurance
• 1x Riftsweeper

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Out of the Tombs

Instant (1)

• 1x Force of Vigor

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Turntimber Symbiosis  ^Flip

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This is my semi-competitive build for Gitrog Monster. It's not up to the full CEDH version of the deck, but the major pieces are there. It's just a bit slower and less consistent.

The primary goal of the deck is to get Dakmor Salvage into your hand, along with The Gitrog Monster on board with any free discard outlet. From there, you can repeatedly discard Dakmor Salvage to draw your entire deck, or at least the pieces you need. The Eldrazi titans are in the deck to keep the loop going until you have everything you need to win. Typically the win will involve generating infinite mana, at Sorcery speed with Lotus Petal or at Instant Speed with Dark Ritual, which you can filter into any combination of Black & Green with Crop Rotation and Twilight Mire (Make sure you have at least one Green up to start that cycle for the first Crop Rotation.) Once you have the infinite mana, you can use Finale of Devastation to tutor every creature you have onto the battlefield and swing for lethal. As a backup, Ayula's Influence + Concordant Crossroads achieves the same thing. If you're facing Instant speed disruption, you can go the Crop Rotation/Twilight Mire/Dark Ritual route, then use Assassin's Trophy to wipe all your opponents' boards, and let the turn pass back to yourself, rinse and repeat.

There's a lot of nuance in the build, and it's a lot of fun, but be warned that the loop takes a while to play through, so you need to be able to move quickly through the steps if you're going to play with it. Since it's a non-deterministic loop, if you're playing it anywhere other than kitchen table, you will be required to go through the steps to demonstrate your win, so bear that in mind before bringing this deck to a store or something to play.

For details on how the Gitrog CEDH build works, check out the full primer here: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/4fbiNVFpr0edHL5Y3IKecg/primer

Date added	8 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Mythic Rares 54 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.18
Tokens	Bear 2/2 G, Emblem Vraska, Golgari Queen, Insect 1/1 BG
Folders	Constructed - Commander/EDH