neb by ihavethebiggestdeck

Format: Commander

Commander: Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

Thalia and The Gitrog Monster turns land drops and expendable permanents into a steady midgame engine. The deck accelerates with cheap mana creatures, Sol Ring, Chrome Mox, and land-ramp spells, then uses tutors to assemble a strong creature or restriction package. Its main pressure line is Natural Order into Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, often after the commander has supplied an extra land and a card from attacking. The deck also taxes or limits opposing development through Archon of Emeria, Aura of Silence, Collector Ouphe, Drannith Magistrate, and Yasharn, Implacable Earth. Removal is broad and includes creature exile, sweepers, artifact and enchantment answers, and search disruption. The major limitation is the lack of a compact, deterministic win. Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Triumph of the Hordes, and Finale of Devastation can end games with a developed board, but the deck usually needs several additional turns and remains vulnerable to removal, counterspells, and graveyard disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Archon of Emeria
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drannith Magistrate
  • 1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Savannah
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Yasharn, Implacable Earth
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth