The Gitrog Monster Competitive

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Combo Competitive

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Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 4x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Hickory Woodlot
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Homeward Path
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Strip Mine
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Necropotence

Instant (20)

• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Ebony Charm
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Naturalize
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Ad Nauseam

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Duress
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Jarad's Orders

Commander (1)

Creature (19)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Reclaimer
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Noose Constrictor
• 1x Olivia's Dragoon
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wild Mongrel
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth

Artifact (6)

• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Grafdigger's Cage
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Crucible of Worlds

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Instant (1)

• 1x Worldly Tutor

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This is my most competitive deck that I would break out if it was that kind of a meta at the table.

After many iterations, I have settled on a low mana cost competitive version that is based off of (but not identical to) Leptys's Gitrog Primer. Previously, this deck had a ton of lands-matter good stuff. I learned the combo from Leptys's primer and Youtube video with Laboratory Maniacs.

Discard Combo

Dakmor Salvage + Kozilek, Butcher of Truth + Putrid Imp . Accumulate draw triggers and explain loop to demonstrate how drawing the deck is deterministic.

Kozilek Land Loop - Infinite Mana

Play Lotus Pedal Discard any land to a discard outlet and then discard Kozilek. One draw trigger on the stack - shuffle trigger on the stack. Shuffle Kozilek and land back into the library. Discard Dakmor in response to the draw trigger and dredge Dakmor back to hand, milling Kozilek and land back into the graveyard. Two draw triggers on the stack - shuffle trigger on the stack. Shuffle Kozilek and land back into the library. Discard Dakmor in response to the draw trigger and dredge Dakmor back to hand, milling Kozilek and land back into the graveyard. Three draw triggers on the stack - shuffle trigger on the stack. Active Lotus Pedal's ability to add one mana of any color into our mana pool. Lotus Pedal will go into the graveyard and then allow Kozilek shuffle trigger to resolve to shuffle back the land, Kozilek and Lotus Pedal. Allow all three draw triggers to resolve. Repeat for infinite mana of any color.

Instant Speed Win

Repeat this sequence of steps, but instead of playing Lotus Pedal at the beginning of the sequence, play Ebony Charm to efficiently combo off. Ebony Charm can be substituted for Praetor's Grasp. Activate Emergence Zone 's ability to play spells as though they had flash and cast Praetor's Grasp to exile a single card of an opponent's library. Exile all cards in all opponent's libraries.

Sorcery Speed Win

If a card needed for instant speed win is exiled: cast Praetor's Grasp (which goes to the graveyard). Cycle two lands with Cycling (Barren Moor and Tranquil Thicket), netting four draw triggers. Discard Kozilek in response to the draw triggers and shuffle Kozilek, the two cycling lands, and Praetor's Grasp back to hand. Repeat at Sorcery speed to exile opponent's libraries.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Dakmor Salvage + Kozilek, Butcher of Truth + Putrid Imp
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 25 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	1.98
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G