The Gitrog Monster by Sereus

Format: Commander

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Golgari Lands-Matter strategy centered on The Gitrog Monster. The primary objective is to exploit the commander s unique draw trigger by repeatedly cycling lands between the battlefield, hand, and graveyard. The deck functions as a "combo-engine" hybrid, utilizing dredge mechanics-specifically Dakmor Salvage-to initiate near-infinite draw loops. Once the engine is online, the deck generates massive mana via Squandered Resources or Skirge Familiar and closes the game through aristocrat drains (Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat), massive mana sinks (Torment of Hailfire, Exsanguinate), or a Walking Ballista finish. The Gitrog Monster is the absolute lynchpin of the deck, acting as both a massive card advantage engine and a primary combo piece. While it can play a grindy stax game with Smokestack and Contamination, it is fundamentally designed to find and execute a deterministic or semi-deterministic loop to win the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Ad Nauseam
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Awakening Zone
• 1 Bayou
• 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
• 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
• 1 Bitterblossom
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blast Zone
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Burgeoning
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Constant Mists
• 1 Contamination
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Crucible of Worlds
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Dust Bowl
• 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exploration
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 3 Forest
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Life and Limb
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Noose Constrictor
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pawn of Ulamog
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Poison-Tip Archer
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Putrid Imp
• 1 Rain of Filth
• 1 Ramunap Excavator
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Regrowth
• 1 Skirge Familiar
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smokestack
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Sporemound
• 1 Squandered Resources
• 1 Strip Mine
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Sylvan Library
• 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Veil of Summer
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Volrath's Stronghold
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1 Zuran Orb