Art by Jason Kang
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The Gitrog Monster
Fill the graveyard with lands through dredge and land sacrifice, generate massive draw and mana, and execute huge land-based board states or game-ending spells like Scapeshift and Splendid Reclamation.
Asked for“A $600 The Gitrog Monster commander deck — a lands-matter deck with heavy ramp, landfall triggers, land recursion from the graveyard, and land-based finishers.”
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 · 61 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
1The Gitrog Monster
3BGLegendary Creature — Frog Horror
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Skyshroud Claim
3GSorcery
Brings two forests straight to the battlefield untapped.
Card Draw
10
Life from the Loam
1GSorcery
Core synergy card for recurring lands and triggering Gitrog draw via dredge.
Greater Good
2GGEnchantment
Sacrifice Gitrog or huge tokens to draw massive hand sizes.
Golgari Grave-Troll
4GCreature — Troll Skeleton
Dredge 6 massively mills lands to trigger draw.
Disciple of Bolas
3BCreature — Human Wizard
Draws cards equal to high-power creatures sacrificed.
Tireless Tracker
2GCreature — Human Scout
Generates Clue tokens off every landfall trigger.
Removal
10
Assassin's Trophy
BGInstant
Cheap instant-speed removal for any permanent target.
Culling Ritual
2BGSorcery
Clears cheap tokens and artifacts while generating massive mana.
Threats/Wincons
23
Titania, Protector of Argoth
3GGLegendary Creature — Elemental
Creates 5/3 Elemental tokens whenever lands enter the graveyard.
Avenger of Zendikar
5GGCreature — Elemental
Generates a massive plant token army that grows with landfall.
Rampaging Baloths
4GGCreature — Beast
Creates 4/4 Beast tokens with every land played.
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
3BBLegendary Creature — Demon
Drains opponents life while growing huge on landfall.
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
4GGLegendary Creature — Elemental Avatar
Scales in size with lands on field and in graveyard.
Worm Harvest
2BGBGBGSorcery
Retrace spell that turns lands in graveyard into an army of 1/1 Worms.
Centaur Vinecrasher
3GCreature — Plant Centaur
Grows per land in grave and recurs itself on land drops.
Ancient Greenwarden
4GGCreature — Elemental
Doubles landfall triggers and plays lands from graveyard.
Terastodon
6GGCreature — Elephant
Massive threat that blows up noncreature permanents.
Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
3BGLegendary Creature — Insect Shaman
Puts +1/+1 counters on whole board whenever lands or permanents are sacrificed.
Dread Presence
3BCreature — Nightmare
Deals damage or draws cards whenever Swamps enter.
Tireless Provisioner
2GCreature — Elf Scout
Generates Treasure or Food on every landfall.
Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
3GGLegendary Creature — Elemental Sorcerer
Creates Badger tokens on landfall and scales with land count.
Blossoming Tortoise
2GGCreature — Turtle
Mills lands, recurs them, and reduces land activation costs.
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
BBGGLegendary Creature — Zombie Elf
Sacrifices large land-scaling creatures to drain the whole table.
Titania, Voice of Gaea
1GGLegendary Creature — Elemental
Gains life when lands enter grave and melds into a game-ending threat.
World Shaper
3GCreature — Merfolk Shaman
Mills on attack and brings all lands in graveyard to field on death.
Scapeshift
2GGSorcery
Sacrifices all lands to search out lethal landfall triggers.
Splendid Reclamation
3GSorcery
Returns all lands from graveyard to the battlefield.
Torment of Hailfire
XBBSorcery
Finisher spell funded by massive land mana output.
Utility
8
Ramunap Excavator
2GCreature — Snake Cleric
Creature-based Crucible effect for land recursion.
Conduit of Worlds
2GGArtifact
Plays lands from graveyard and can cast spells from grave.
Azusa, Lost but Seeking
2GLegendary Creature — Human Monk
Allows two extra land drops every turn.
Wayward Swordtooth
2GCreature — Dinosaur
Provides extra land plays and turns into a 5/5 threat.
Oracle of Mul Daya
3GCreature — Elf Shaman
Plays lands off top of library and grants an extra land drop.
Crop Rotation
GInstant
Instant-speed land tutor that sacrifices a land, triggering Gitrog.
Reshape the Earth
6GGGSorcery
Fetches 10 lands directly to battlefield to trigger game-winning landfall.
