Gitrog Landfall by user2554190

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Golgari lands and graveyard engine commanded by The Gitrog Monster. The primary game plan focuses on accelerating mana in the opening turns with efficient mana dorks and land-drop amplifiers like Exploration and Burgeoning. On Turn 4, the commander lands and immediately unlocks massive card velocity by turning land sacrifices, cycling lands, and fetchlands into continuous card draw. In the mid-game, the deck leverages graveyard recursion from Ramunap Excavator and Ancient Greenwarden to multiply land triggers. By Turn 5, it transitions into overwhelming win conditions through wide landfall token swarms from Avenger of Zendikar and Scute Swarm, or lethal life-drain bursts via Lord of Extinction sacrificed to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord. While the strategy is resilient against removal thanks to rapid land rebuilding, it remains susceptible to targeted graveyard exile and creature sweepers before combat damage connects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Castle Garenbrig
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fork in the Road
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Havenwood Battleground
  • 1 Hickory Woodlot
  • 1 Horn of Greed
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jolrael, Mwonvuli Recluse
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Slippery Karst
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Strands of Night
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Worm Harvest
  • 1 Zuran Orb