Gitrog monster by user9388775

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Lands-Matter Midrange engine built around The Gitrog Monster. The primary game plan focuses on rapid land acceleration during the early turns, establishing the commander by Turn 4 to unlock extra land drops and high-velocity card draw. The deck leverages heavy land sacrifice, fetchlands, and self-mill to stock the graveyard with lands and key creatures. On Turn 5, it transitions from resource accumulation to critical onset by resolving potent landfall token engines like Scute Swarm, Rampaging Baloths, or Baloth Prime, often multiplied by mass land recursion spells such as Splendid Reclamation and Aftermath Analyst. After surviving a single opponent response cycle, the deck finishes the game on Turn 6 by delivering an overwhelming combat overrun using End-Raze Forerunners, Thunderfoot Baloth, or asymmetric sweepers like In Garruk's Wake. Resilient graveyard recursion and redundant landfall enablers provide excellent engine recovery, though the strategy remains susceptible to mass graveyard hate and well-timed creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adventurous Impulse
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Augur of Autumn
  • 1 Baloth Prime
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Barrier Breach
  • 1 Beanstalk Giant // Fertile Footsteps
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fog
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Glimpse the Core
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nissa, Vastwood Seer // Nissa, Sage Animist
  • 1 Ominous Cemetery
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Plague Wind
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Roiling Regrowth
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scouring Swarm
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Cloning of Shredder
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zuko's Conviction