20$ EDH Gitrog Monster

by RobM on 18 February 2018

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Deck Description

Honestly if your budget for an EDH deck is 20$, you probably should consider a different format. However this deck has some actual potential at the kitchen table. The Gitrog Monster is probably the best golgari commander out there and with a large budget, should be able to dominate consistently. Due to budget constraints, you will have a harder time assembling the combo and some protection spells are missing. However you can always opt to outvalue your opponents and beat them down with Rampaging Baloths and the Frog.

I would not recommend this deck for someone who is new to magic, but if you enjoy crazy combos, lands matters, and don't mind piloting a difficult deck, this deck is for you.

How to Play

The deck is built around achieving this somewhat convoluted combination.

How the combo goes within the game is as follows. With The Gitrog Monster and a "discard outlet" (Wild Mongrel/Noose Constrictor/Putrid Imp/Oblivion Crown/Skirge Familiar) on the battlefield and a Dakmor Salvage in our hand, we first discard Dakmor to the outlet. Dakmor hits the graveyard, causing Gitrog's "land hit our graveyard, draw a card" trigger to occur. When this trigger resolves, we replace the draw with a dredge, getting Dakmor back to our hand and milling two cards in the process. If one or both of the two milled cards were lands, a new Gitrog draw trigger occurs. We either let this trigger resolve and draw a card, or let it stay on the stack (depending on the situation and your preference). We're now back to the original state, except that we've milled two cards and possibly put a draw trigger on the stack/drawn a card.

Because of our discard outlet, we can repeat the above process as long as we have cards left in our deck, milling two cards with each dredge and netting a draw trigger every time a land is milled. Because the deck runs Gaea's Blessing we will always have cards left in our library to dredge to Dakmor until we've drawn most of our library from the extra draw triggers that have accumulated. If we run out of cards in the library due to drawing Gaea's Blessing, we can simply discard it to our outlet to reshuffle our graveyard back to the library to continue the process. Eventually, we'll have enough draw triggers to draw our whole deck, leaving both our graveyard and library completely empty.

After we've emptied our library and graveyard, we can start "looping" a spell of our choice to first gain infinite mana (Dark Ritual). After achieving enough mana, we can use it to repeated cast Geth's Verdict or Ebony Charm, killing our opponents.

(Thanks Leptys for the copypaste combo explanation)

If any of your combo pieces get exiled you can always bring them back with Riftsweeper, but if it gets exiled as well you will have to resort to some traditional midrange valuetown goodness. Who doesn't love returning 10 lands onto the battlefield with Worldshaper/Splendid Reclamation and getting 10 beasts from Rampaging Baloths.

If anything is unclear or you have some other questions, feel free to ask in the comments!

Deck Tags

  • Golgari
  • Budget
  • EDH
  • Commander
  • Combo
  • Land
  • Cheap

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Mana Symbol Occurrence

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Deck Format


Commander

NOTE: Set by owner when deck was made.

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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