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The Gitrog Monster

Commander / EDH

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Land (48)

Creature (15)

Sorcery (10)

Enchantment (7)

Commander (1)

Commander: The Gitrog Monster

Instant (10)

Artifact (9)

This deck aims to combo by turn 3, 4 - but can do as early as turn 2.

This approach to build the frog dead is leaning toward a land heavy build - so effects such as Azusa and Summer Bloom is very effective ramp. Also, this deck mulligans surprisingly well, I have been play-testing with this list for about 2 months and it performs very well in my play group (it races Maelstorm, Teferi Stax/Combo, Narset, and plays well against counter spell since you just drop extra lands and cast it again.

I've seen many lists that run 30 to 40 land, and I decided to go land heavy because it's easier to dig for combo pieces. With land sac outlets such as Squandered Resources, and Sylvan Safekeeper - if you can't find your discard outlet/dredge land - you can always just sacrifice some lands to fish for it. Since once you find them with mana open you just win, sacrificing lands with Frog in play will net you draw spells due to the high land density in your deck.

The main combo of the deck requires the following cards:

  1. Frog in place
  2. Discard outlet
  3. Dakmor Salvage in hand (or in graveyard with a draw trigger so you can dredge it back to your hand)

By constantly discarding dakmor salvae you can dredge your whole library into the graveyard, and net yourself tons of cards whenever you dredge a land. By doing this a few types and cycle your graveyard with the Eldrazi Titan (ulamog or Kozilek, it doesnt really matter which one you use as long as you have one), you can net yourself some cards such as mana crypt, lotus petal, dark ritual. You can then cast Skirge Familiar as your new discard outlet and gain infinite black mana. With infinite black mana and dredging your whole library into your hand (through land draw triggers, you can repeat the cycling of graveyard until your library is only filled with the Titan and lands) - then you can hard cast Mikaeus and Triskelion and infinite the whole table.

This is the main wincon of the deck, the secondary win cons (given someone stole your dredge land or kills all of your discard outlet):

Alternative Wincon #1 Buried Alive + Reanimate (targeting Necrotic Ooze, Phyrexian Devourer, and Triskelion)

This is a pretty cheap combo to splash if someone really counters your frog every time or somehow praetor's grasped your dredge land, just requires 4 black mana and you can throw your entire deck's CMC to kill someone (prob only enough to kill 2 people at full health).

Alternative Wincon #2 Tooth and Nail (targeting Mikaeus and Triskelion)

Since the whole deck is a ramp deck, you can just hard cast tooth and nail with all of the lands you gathered and win on the spot.

It is not uncommon to win with the alternative wincons given the rituals and fast mana it runs.

The worst card against this deck is Rest in Peace, so here's the third wincon:

Alternative Wincon #3 Helm of Obedience + Leyline of the Void (or a opponent playing Rest in Peace)

This way, you can kill the Rest in Peace player right away and try to combo the rest of the table, or kill players one at a time and keep the rest in peace in play.

If you have any question regarding to this deck, or how to pilot the deck - just leave a comment below.

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