The Gitrog Monster by ConnorG

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages The Gitrog Monster as an engine for resource acceleration, card advantage, and graveyard recursion. Early turns focus on accelerating land drops with cards like Exploration, Burgeoning, and Lotus Cobra. Once the commander enters play, every land sacrifice or fetchland activation triggers card draw, allowing the deck to dig through its library while filling the graveyard. The primary win condition uses mass land recursion from Splendid Reclamation or Lumra, Bellow of the Woods to trigger Field of the Dead, Scute Swarm, and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, creating an overwhelming board of tokens and high life loss. In addition, the deck carries an infinite drain combo in Exquisite Blood and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose to finish games without combat. Targeted land destruction via Strip Mine and Crucible of Worlds keeps opposing threats off balance throughout the midgame.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Abundance
• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blackblade Reforged
• 1 Blighted Woodland
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Cryptic Caves
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivator Colossus
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Deadly Tempest
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Entish Restoration
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 9 Forest
• 1 Ghost Town
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hermit Druid
• 1 Horn of Greed
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Kishla Village
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
• 1 Moonshadow
• 1 Mossborn Hydra
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Painful Quandary
• 1 Perpetual Timepiece
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Realms Uncharted
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Retreat to Hagra
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Six
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Strip Mine
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 Tectonic Edge
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Dross Pits
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The Hunter Maze
• 1 The Mending of Dominaria
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
• 1 Zuran Orb