Art by Howard Lyon
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Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Slow down your opponents with tax effects while accelerating your own mana through extra land drops and sacrificial card draw.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 58 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
1WBGLegendary Creature — Human Frog Horror
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
14
Wayward Swordtooth
2GCreature — Dinosaur
Provides extra land drops to trigger the commander
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
2GLegendary Creature — Human Monk
High-velocity land placement
Ramunap Excavator
2GCreature — Snake Cleric
Allows playing sacrificed lands from the graveyard
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
2GEnchantment Creature — Nymph Dryad
Extra land drops and color fixing
Card Draw
10
Beast Whisperer
2GGCreature — Elf Druid
Draws cards when casting creature-based threats
Return of the Wildspeaker
4GInstant
Draw spells based on the highest power creature
Evolution Sage
2GCreature — Elf Druid
Landfall triggers that help build board presence
Tireless Tracker
2GCreature — Human Scout
Generates Clue tokens for each land entry
Removal
15
Cleansing Nova
3WWSorcery
Flexible board wipe for creatures or artifacts/enchantments
Threats/Wincons
10
Avenger of Zendikar
5GGCreature — Elemental
Win condition through landfall tokens
The Gitrog Monster
3BGLegendary Creature — Frog Horror
Land sacrifice synergy and extra draw
Ancient Greenwarden
4GGCreature — Elemental
Doubles landfall triggers and plays lands from graveyard
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
3BBLegendary Creature — Demon
Win condition that drains health on landfall
Titania, Protector of Argoth
3GGLegendary Creature — Elemental
Creates 5/3 tokens when lands are sacrificed
Utility
9
Thalia, Heretic Cathar
2WLegendary Creature — Human Soldier
Redundant slow-down effect for opponents
Courser of Kruphix
1GGEnchantment Creature — Centaur
Card filtering and incidental life gain
Knight of the Reliquary
1GWCreature — Human Knight
Tutors for utility lands and acts as a threat
Splendid Reclamation
3GSorcery
Massive mana spike by returning all lands from graveyard
Deathrite Shaman
BGCreature — Elf Shaman
Versatile graveyard hate and incidental damage
