Gitrog Lands

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari)

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Land (41)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Blighted Fen
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Ebon Stronghold
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 4x Forest
• 1x Gemstone Mine
• 1x Glacial Chasm
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Havenwood Battleground
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 1x Strip Mine
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Creature (28)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Centaur Vinecrasher
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Groundskeeper
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Simian Brawler
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Terravore
• 1x Tilling Treefolk
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x World Breaker
• 1x World Shaper

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Exploration
• 1x Squandered Resources
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (3)

• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Instant (12)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Darkblast
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Grapple with the Past
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Realms Uncharted
• 1x Sudden Reclamation

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Gaea's Blessing
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Sylvan Scrying
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Worm Harvest

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Centaur Vinecrasher
• 1x Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
• 1x Noose Constrictor
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Skirge Familiar
• 1x Wild Mongrel

Land (4)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Instant (1)

• 1x Grisly Salvage

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Edge of Autumn

Artifact (1)

• 1x Horn of Greed

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Maybeboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Greenwarden of Murasa
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
• 1x Vinelasher Kudzu

Artifact (4)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Smokestack

Instant (5)

• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Harrow
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Nature's Claim

Land (4)

• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Twilight Mire

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Drown in Filth
• 1x Monstrify

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Desolation
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oblivion Crown

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This deck has a lot of the same cards as the Legacy Lands and Loam Pox decklists ( Exploration , Dark Depths / Thespian's Stage , Life from the Loam , Wasteland , etc).

Game Plan

Attrition/Stax vs Combo

My version of the Gitrog Monster focuses on generating card advantage through various synergies while at the same time denying your opponent's resources and making yourself impervious to damage until you can win by various means. Many Gitrog pilots tend to build their decks to focus on winning via combos and creating infinite loops, which you will not find in this deck and I will address in more detail below. Because of this I would consider it a "75%" deck that can audible into a more competitive deck if need be. This is by no means a budget deck.

Core of The Deck

Life from the Loam The card that drives the deck's engine. LftL allows you to recur 3 lands at a time, so you are able to hit your land drops and put your cycling lands back into your hand, and re-deploy your utility lands. Be warned, being too aggressive with LftL (i.e. repeatedly card: Strip Mineing / card: Wastelanding your opponents lands) as it will put a huge target on your back before you are able to get your soft lock in place.

Crucible of Worlds : While the monetary cost is somewhat prohibitive, this 3 cmc artifact breaks the deck wide open. See the above warning regarding abuse. Nothing says "Kill me in the face" like having Crucible in play and a Strip Mine in the yard. Keep the table in check, don't turn them against you. Ramunap Excavator was a great addition, and is functionally the same card in Naga form.

Glacial Chasm / Constant Mists These cards are your protection. Playing to former and saccing it every turn to itself or Gitrog, is what buys you the time to sink in the choke-hold.

Dakmor Salvage : Being able to add cards to the yard and get a land back into the hand for the cost of replacing a card draw is good enough on its own, factor in that you will likely hit a land and be able to draw a card if Gitrog is in play is icing on the cake. Dakmor Salvage is the best target for our land sac effects, including Gitrog's upkeep triggers as Dakmor can be returned back to your hand off of its own Gitrog trigger ensuring you always make land drops and essentially negating the Gitrog Monster's 'sac a land per turn' drawback. A must have.

Entomb : Many people tend to assume Entomb can only put creatures in the bin. Not the case. It usually gets Life from the Loam, other times it gets Dakmor Salvage, keep in mind it is an instant and is best played at your opponent's end step. Other great targets are Centaur Vinecrasher and ...

Barren Moor / Tranquil Thicket / Ash Barrens / Blasted Landscape / Polluted Mire / Slippery Karst : Paying 1 or 2 mana to draw 2 cards when Gitrog is in play is bonkers. Return these cards to hand with all of our recursion to find what you need.

Crop Rotation : Does everything this deck wants at instant speed. Your opponent is going to Reanimate something nasty? Respond to his cast with Crop Rotation and grab a Bojuka Bog , he wants to attack you with blightsteel colussus? sneak in a Maze of Ith . You have a Dark Depths but no Thespian's Stage ? Crop Rotation gets you there.

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How to Win

The deck actually wins by out-drawing your opponents 3:1 while denying your opponent's resources with Smokestack / card: Waste land / Ghost Quarter and making them unable to do damage to you via a Glacial Chasm recursion lock or Constant Mists . Below are some of the ways the deck deals lethal.

Worm Harvest : Creating and army of 1/1s is often the way the deck wins. Being able to cast Worm Harvest every turn and making additional worms each time, gives you plenty of fodder for Smokestack , and you opponents will be left with little (and will often scoop when the writing is on the wall) On its own Worm Harvest is very resilient because of retrace and the worms start getting formidable with Creakwood Liege in play .

Dark Depths + Thespian's Stage : The classic Legacy Lands win con takes more than one swing more often than not in EDH, but a 20/20 Indestructible Flier is serious business.

Hatred : This probably belongs down in the personal touches section, but for whatever reason, no one seems to want to block Gitrog in my meta. Him being a 6/6 Deathtouch puts people in a weird position on whether or not to block or just take the 6 (loss aversion I guess). Putting 15 life into Hatred to take someone out isn't often seen coming in a Gitrog deck

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 1 Mythic Rares 41 - 2 Rares 25 - 3 Uncommons 17 - 7 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Beast 4/4 G, Elemental 5/3 G, Marit Lage, Plant 0/1 G, Worm 1/1 BG