[V5] Thalia & the Gitrog Monster

Format: Commander

Commander: Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Abzan deck pairs Thalia and The Gitrog Monster's extra land drop with landfall token engines and aristocrat sacrifice loops. Early mana dorks accelerate the commander, which attacks to draw by sacrificing tokens or recurrable lands. The primary win is assembling an infinite drain with Cauldron Familiar, Samwise Gamgee, Blood Artist, and a sacrifice outlet; a secondary path uses Scapeshift and land recursion to generate a massive Field of the Dead or Scute Swarm board. Since every combo line is tutorable, the deck plays as a value engine that converts lands and sacrifice fodder into either a life-total loop or an overwhelming attack. There is no hidden commander; the only double-faced card, Sephiroth, acts as drain and value redundancy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Admonition Angel
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 City of Solitude
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Divine Visitation
  • 1 Doorkeeper Thrull
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Eidolon of Rhetoric
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Emeria Angel
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Felidar Retreat
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Flagstones of Trokair
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shalai, Voice of Plenty
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician