Gitrog combo/beatdown

Commander / EDH

mabakerbauer

Creature (26)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Corpsejack Menace
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kalonian Hydra
• 1x Krosan Tusker
• 1x Managorger Hydra
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Noose Constrictor
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Olivia's Dragoon
• 1x Patchwork Gnomes
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Realm Seekers
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Wild Mongrel
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Artifact (5)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Horn of Greed
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Crop Sigil

Land (35)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bant Panorama
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 7x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Jund Panorama
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Mosswort Bridge
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Naya Panorama
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terminal Moraine
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Warped Landscape

Instant (10)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Sudden Reclamation
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Commander (1)

Sorcery (22)

• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Deadly Tempest
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Extinction
• 1x Extinguish All Hope
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Necromantic Selection
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Rishkar's Expertise
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Wave of Vitriol

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In progress competitive budget gitrog combo, +1/+1 counter, graveyard deck. Typical Dakmor Salvage + discard outlet loop, but without the giant eldrazi. Instead, the deck wants to have 3 creatures and a black mana in order to combo. First, if necessary I can discard lands until I draw the exact amount of cards in the deck. Then flashback Dread Return, targeting Skullwinder or Greenwarden of Murasa (preferably greenwarden), and sacrifice greenwarden / skullwinder to Cabal Therapy just in case I need to get one more thing from my graveyard to my hand. From here the combo requires •one black mana: I can use gitrog's extra land trigger to play a land from my hand, or more likely I keep one black open before I combo •Songs of the Damned: I play with the black mana. •Living Death: I play with the 20+ black mana from songs of the damned. Ideally from the 15-20 draw triggers from the dakmor loop I draw one of those two cards. Otherwise, I have to use the exile trigger on greenwarden from the cabal therapy sacrifice. After I discard all of the creatures from my hand I play living death. If I had to exile greenwarden then the skullwinder etb can get Golgari Signet to turn black into green. Otherwise titania can get a forest (if there are any forests left in the deck). From here I should have Carrion Feeder, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Corpsejack Menace, Winding Constrictor, and 20-30 other creatures. 1: Carrion feeder sacrifices one of the other creatures 2: mazirek triggers 3:I choose winding constrictor to activate before corpsejack menace, so when mazirek trigger resolves, all of my creatures get 4 +1/+1 counters, and when carrion resolves, he gets an additional 4 +1/+1 counters. I use a green mana and some of the black I have to activate jarad. One activation typically does 150-250 damage to each opponent, and each other after does 75-125 damage to each opponent.

The combo can power through torpor orb, instant speed removal, and extreme life gain. It does have trouble with counterspells and instant speed graveyard exile. The deck tries to play tons of giant creatures to kill players that try to keep counterspells / instant speed graveyard exile open, then play the combo. This is definitely not a control deck or a stax deck, but it does great against those types of decks. This deck is tuned specifically for a meta that is very creature and stax heavy with a fair amount of control and combo too, which is why there are so many "destroy all creatures" and "destroy all artifacts and enchantments" effects. Any suggestions are welcome.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 29 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.69
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Beast 4/4 G, Elemental 5/3 G, Plant 0/1 G