Gitrog cEDH by TDW

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 82

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power competitive Commander build centered on The Gitrog Monster as a combo engine and card advantage engine. The primary strategy accelerates into Gitrog using low-cost mana creatures, rituals, and fast artifacts, then pairs the commander with a free discard outlet such as Putrid Imp or Wild Mongrel and Dakmor Salvage. Discarding Dakmor triggers Gitrog's card draw, which is replaced by Dakmor's dredge 2 ability, milling cards and returning Dakmor to hand. Hitting land cards creates additional draw triggers, allowing the deck to dredge through its entire library. Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre provides infinite graveyard reshuffling, enabling loops of Lotus Petal for infinite mana and repeated casts of Ebony Charm to drain all opponents in a single turn. Dense protection spells like Veil of Summer and Sylvan Safekeeper defend the win attempt, while Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog serve as a compact backup win condition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Arbor Elf
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boreal Druid
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkblast
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Ebon Stronghold
  • 1 Ebony Charm
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frenzied Baloth
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Joraga Treespeaker
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Noose Constrictor
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Nylea's Intervention
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Priest of Titania
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Putrid Imp
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Rushed Rebirth
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Wild Mongrel
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Xantid Swarm
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth