gitrog doin it by user1335872

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is built around The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride, a commander that turns combat damage into massive card draw and land ramp. The core strategy involves saddling The Gitrog with a high-power creature, attacking to trigger its ability, then sacrificing that creature to draw X cards and put up to X lands onto the battlefield. The deck leans heavily on enormous beaters like Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, Ghalta, Primal Hunger, and Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger as both sac fodder and finishers. A robust recursion package (Reanimate, Victimize, Funeral Room // Awakening Hall) provides resilience, while Exsanguinate and Archfiend of Despair offer alternative win conditions. The deck lacks fast combos, instead winning through incremental combat advantage and eventual mana bombs.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anticausal Vestige
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Despair
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Badlands Revival
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Break Down the Door
  • 1 Bygone Colossus
  • 1 Chocobo Racetrack
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit Pylons
  • 1 Day of Black Sun
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Eusocial Engineering
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fangs of Kalonia
  • 1 Festering Gulch
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Goldvein Hydra
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Hidden Necropolis
  • 1 Hunter's Insight
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lavaspur Boots
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Monoist Sentry
  • 1 Mosswood Dreadknight // Dread Whispers
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Obscuring Haze
  • 1 Omnath, Locus of Mana
  • 1 Osteomancer Adept
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawpatch Recruit
  • 1 Perigee Beckoner
  • 1 Preacher of the Schism
  • 1 Railway Brawler
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Treatment
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Sledge-Class Seedship
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snakeskin Veil
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Earth Crystal
  • 1 The Earth King
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Wary Watchdog
  • 1 Yargle, Glutton of Urborg