Crouching Windgrace, Hidden Gitrog

Commander / EDH BRG (Jund) Competitive

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Land (33)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bazaar of Baghdad
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x City of Traitors
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Deserted Temple
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x Karplusan Forest
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Stomping Ground
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Taiga
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Winding Canyons
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (22)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Ad Nauseam
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Necrologia
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Rain of Filth
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Summoner's Pact
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Veil of Summer
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Creature (19)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Spirit Guide
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tinder Wall
• 1x Wild Mongrel

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oblivion Crown
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Rhythm of the Wild
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

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An attempt at using Lord Windgrace as the commander for Gitrog cEDH. This is meant as a bit of a meta-game deck for staxier metas where keeping the frog on the field may be harder to do. It's going to try to grind out the game and slow every down until you've sculpted a hand that can go off with protection. It was not built with a TnT or combo meta in mind, that was not my LGS. If your meta is all really-fast combo (FCFS, etc), you may want regular Gitrog instead. If your meta is all TnT, I have no idea (maybe don't play Gitrog in that meta?). But this deck gets up to speed quickly and grinds out games. It may not win, but it will have a presence. YMMV.

I've broken down some pros and cons below. There are some pretty large downsides (obviously), so this is likely not fully competitive, but it still seems strong. Hopefully enough to have fun with. I'm a filthy casual, i like to have fun.

Much of this list was cribbed from the following two lists. Check them out for more competitive variants.

• Gitrog Primer
• The GitFrog

Pros

• Commander gives card advantage in longer/grindier games
• Gamble instead of Imperial Seal (direct to hand, usually)
• Red Elemental Blast and Pyroblast
• Wheel of Fortune
• Fire Covenant (one-sided and instant-speed vs Toxic Deluge)
• Dockside Extortionist for some fast ramp

Cons

• I am running Riftsweeper and a couple reanimations, but there are ways of having Gitrog destroyed/exiled that'll be harder to recover from and without Gitrog the deck straight fails (that's a pretty big negative)
• Have to tutor for three things instead of two; there are a decent number of tutors, but it slows things down and makes the deck more tenuous.

Individual Card Discussions

• Lotus Vale and Lotus Field

These are... no longer here. Since i'm trying to flog this list at high power, i've finally purchased Mana Confluence and City of Traitors (lands i've needed for a while now). RIP casual cEDH, i may be the only mourner...

• Bitter Ordeal and Praetor's Grasp

I don't need these otherwise dead cards. I can instead win by looping Wheel of Fortune until death. If needed i can crop rotate bojuka bog to remove graveyards at instant speed in case of titans.

• Necrologia

In most decks the point of Ad Naus is to draw at the end of the turn before yours to start your turn with a bunch of cards. With Gitrog running Ad Naus on your own turn is fine, and Necrologia is a way of doing exactly that. Just as strong as Necropotence, without the downside of adding an exile trigger on your own graveyard.

• Golgari Thug

This will be replaced by Stinkweed Imp when I next go through my collection to find it.

• Survival of the Fittest

I'm not sure if this is a good fit for a typical Gitrog deck, but this isn't a typical Gitrog deck.

• Underworld Breach

I want to put this card in, but have to find slots. It offers graveyard recursion and an alternate wincon (looping LED and Wheel) in one package. Seems strong.

• Tectonic Reformation

This seems like a good value engine to churn through the deck, however I don't think the deck currently has enough land to make solid use of it. I'm still a couple lands shy of a typical Gitrog deck. That said, if I can find room for it, it would be a good inclusion.

Revisions

1.1

Trades:

• Beast Within for Putrefy
  I don't know why I didn't do this to begin with. Brain fart.
• Cavern of Souls for Cabal Coffers
  As nice as Cabal Coffers is in casual, this deck has been too fast for it to really be useful. And it doesn't produce mana of its own accord, which just doesn't cut it here.
• Golgari Thug for Faerie Macabre
  The deck needs more dredgers and Faerie Macabre apparently isn't as strong in my local meta.
• Verdant Catacombs for Bitter Ordeal
  Since this deck doesn't need Bitter Ordeal, i can use the spot for more mana.
• Natural Order for Lotus Cobra
  Lotus Cobra seems nice, but I really need Gitrog in play, and the extra tutor seems more useful.
• Wooded Foothills for Mogg Salvage
  The deck needed more lands and it already has a pretty good amount of hate.
• Mana Vault for Stone-Seeder Hierophant
  Mana Vault ramps faster.

Still need to try and find room for 2-4 more land, but hopefully this will be an improvement.

1.1.1

Minor bump, two small replacements:

• Wild Mongrel for Skirge Familiar
  It doesn't matter how nice discarding a card for mana is, if i don't get the 5 mana i need to cast it than it's sitting useless in my hand while i go search for a cheaper discard outlet.
• Bloodstained Mire for Verdant Catacombs
  Thanks to dual-lands I can replace this (though technically i need both) to remove Prismatic Vista from a different deck that needed a better fetch (and was already running Bloodstained Mire).

1.1.2

Minor bump, one replacement:

• Survival of the Fittest for Wrenn and Six
  W&6 is a strong value engine in this deck, but it doesn't help win, it just helps grind games. Switching out for Survival to have a better chance of getting Frog in hand.

1.1.3

Minor bump, two replacements:

• Lotus Vale and Lotus Field are out. Mana Confluence and City of Traitors are in. RIP casual-ness. This was partly because of some gold-fishing i did where they were just always "feels bad" lands in the early game, which is just too risky when trying to threaten turn three.

Retired.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.00
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat Warrior 2/2 G, Treasure