" And that's why we are gonna run either Ulamog or Kozilek " I can literally hear my heart pop out of my chest when I hear this. That said, great video as always
One of the big turn offs for new players wanting to play the Gitrog Monster is the non deterministic loops the deck does. However, your choice to have Dread and Vigor be the reshufflers is an interesting way around this. Hopefully this will get new and budget players interested in the deck and taking it to the next level. Thank you very much!
That's what I thought too! I have a Budget Gitrog deck too, and was wondering about Dread and Vigor as well. Glad to see someone else use them; definitely going to order them for the deck now.
Have not been so excited to see some more cEDH decks from you. Your decks for the spike feeders are just straight bonkers. You are making cEDH affordable and therefore easy to get into, which lead to me making it almost my favorite fornat. Thanks for all the great hours spent with cedh thanks to you ❤️
@@TheCommandersQuarters glad you are doing this! seriously without you my whole playgroup would not be playing cEDH. Will there be more budget cedh decks like ruric thar stax or sth. similiar? keep up the great content, never been so happy to have subbed to a youtube channel before
As a cEDH Gitrog player, this is pretty close to what we're doing by turn 1-3. I highly approve of this and will forever use this video as a reference for my Budget friends. Thanks Mitch!
The tapped lands kinda hurt though. I can kinda get behind cycling lands or golgari rot farm, but foul orchard, golgari guildgate and jungle hollow are just so bad. Just play basics!
i dont get the dark ritual+gaea's blessing +volrath's dungeon combo he explains at 10:10, could someone clarify how does he get infinite mana without the skirge familiar? pretty please?
With volraths and Gaeas out, you can dredge out infinitely, and as long as you have a single black mana for dark ritual somewhere before you start, it’ll get shuffled back in and you’ll dredge into it again eventually, cast it with the floating black and have 3 black floating. Do it all again, spend one of your 3 floating black to cast ritual, you have 5 floating black now. Rinse and repeat till you have infinite mana.
Muldrotha is my land matters commander, and Gitrog is one of the 99 and he is powerful when in play. Now i have an idea on how to build him as a commander. "Beggars can't be choosers" haha love that part.
I had a omnath deck that I changed to a value frog deck because I wanted to see how well it would do that slowly turned into a cedh deck after I saw how he worked with dakmor. Also little tip if you end your turn with gitrog in play and 8 cards in hand you can discard a land and it make you draw a card putting you back at 8 cards making you have to discard again if the land you discard is dakmor you can dredge it back and if you mill a land you get a extra card. Doing this you can build a perfect hand if you want too and win off of crown being flashed in.
I think this is one of the best decks I've seen on this channel and I've built 3 decks from this channel jodah,goreclaw and tatyova I've I hadn't pre order commander 2019 I would've snap build this keep it up man love the channel
turn 1 (8 cards in hand), cast dark ritual (3 mana floating - 6 cards in hand), cast col ring, tap for two colorless (4 mana in hand - 5 cards), cast signet (2 mana, 4 cards), tap signet (3 mana, 4 cards), Cast the talisman (1 mana - 3 cards), tap talisman (2 mana - 3 cards) to cast Sakura tribe elder (0 mana - 2 cards). Sack the Sakura, grab a land and pass the turn. Turn 2 comes, draw a card (0 mana - 3 cards), tap Sol, signet, talisman and the land ( 3 cards - 5 mana) play land (2 cards - 5 mana), cast rain of filth (1 card - 4 mana), tap the other land you played (1 card, 5 mana), cast gitrog, sac both your lands now (3 cards - 2 mana). cast putrid imp (2 cards - 1 mana), discard a land, draw a card (2 cards, 1 mana), cast bubbling muck, targeting your putrid imp, (1 card, 0 (bubbling muck hasn't resolved) mana). On the stack, discard Drakmor Salvage from hand due to putrid imps effect, (0 cards, 0 mana), Gitrog triggers, choose to dredge the card back to hand (1 card, 0 mana), hit Gea's blessing (it doesn't matter when you hit this, you can dredge the whole library away) , and put your library back into your graveyard. Continuously dredge this land (as it comes back to your hand ), until you draw the whole deck due to the gitrog triggers. When you find Dark Ritual, finally allow for bubbling muck to resolve (remember, this is all on the stack of bubbling muck being resolved). Cast, dark ritual, as now you have (x cards, 6 mana). Then cast skirge familiar, and it now should be an easy dub
Whenever I play a TCG, I always make one deck built around frogs. I know The Gitrog Monster has been the most popular Golgari Commander for some time and have had problems understanding what made him so effective, this video has opened my eyes to the insanity that this Commander can bring, thank you so much, Mitch. Dark Heart of the Woods (a cheaper but slower Zuran Orb) is a card that I think should really be considered for a budget Gitrog pilot. It helps survival and helps you draw when you need to.
I was just about to look for a new commander since I wasn't feeling windgrace. When I saw Mitch pick my best boy in the deck gitrog I knew I had to build it. My friend love the niv mizzet you showcase and now I'm excited about running a good boy frog
Rewatching to compare to my own Gitrog commander deck. I use *Underrealm Lich* to create a similar effect to the dredge combo My win condition is milling twenty plus lands, resurrecting them with *Splendid Reclamation* triggering twenty landfalls from *Zendikar's Roil* with an extra oompf from Overrun.
There is an alternate form of the Gitrog that has been catching my interest for some time. It revolves around sylvan reclamation and a few giant value engines with it. Essentially mill your entire deck and slam roughly 30 or so lands onto the battlefield with one of the following: Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, Alter of the Brood, Rampaging Baloths, the latter of which would need to be helped by Emergence Zone. I especially like Alter of the Brood because you can work it with other cards like Worm Harvest as well. I enjoy working the Gitrog in this way because it is just so explosive.
Really Impressed by the Volrath's Dungeon idea with Gaea's Cradle and Dark Ritual. I never knew about that until now, so thanks for showing it! Great video!
This Deck does not have enough win cons. If your win cons are exiled, or your graveyard diminished, then this deck is broken. This deck heavily relies on on its commander, and if you cannot play it anymore because it has been put back into the command zone several times, you’re busted.
I think you should start ranking the power level of your decks. This deck is going to be a semi competitive level deck - Gitrog combo is T1 in CEDH, even watered down, you'll be stomping casuals.
Ayula's Influence was actually a late cut! Problem is if you draw into Vigor and/or Dread (which you probably would while comboing) you can't discard them with Ayula's Influence
I love Gitrog a lot, but I'm not allowed to play her in my main group lol I took Dakmoor salvage out and built a reanimator variant that uses her as a value engine, but after the first 30 minute turn that navigated to a win we all agreed no more frog. Sadface.png, back to Tasigur
Mitch you did such a great job with this. I love that you decided to make it gitrog combo and didn’t try to simply build a lands matter deck. I love the toad so much and this made my day
@@howaboutnow1895 Yeah, I picked it up from my game store a while back, with that and the PDF for Kaladesh and Inistrad Wizards released I ran a really cool plane hopping adventure. If you don't have it I highly recommend it!
The fun fact that you can win at instand speed during your cleanup step is WOW. I fell in love with Gitrog since i found out its competitive deck °_° And this budget deck does a good job to at least be a Gitrog Monster deck °_°
There's another infinite combo this deck is capable of with just Gitrog and Dakmor Salvage. If you move to cleanup step with Dakmor in hand and Gitrog out, you can discard Dakmor and Dredge it back. Then, the game moves to cleanup again because it won't let you end the turn without discarding down to max hand size. You continuously Dredge until your deck is in the bin!
This was the most annoying commander I went up against in my magic days, my friend used Ticking Gnomes with this commander and runned like, 80? 90? Lands in it along with infinite combo to deal infinite damage to all opponents
loaming shaman plus gaea's blessing works okay too, elixir of immortality is a good shuffle ability and shadow of the grave get's back all you've discarded this turn.
1:42 *Whenever one or more lands hit the graveyard from anywhere. If you mill yourself for 20, and you mill 20 lands, you draw 1 card. You'd need to mill yourself 20 times for 1, in order to draw 20.
WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY OF REMOVING SATYR! 2 mana mill 4 is great! Love the video. I have loved the frog since he was spoiled....my play group not so much. I am amazed you got him to work for such a low price.
hmm.. I already own an ulamog the infinite gyre that I don't use in any deck, it's a waste of a 30 $ card, just sitting in my card pile, so I guess he (or is it "it) goes in this deck.
One thing that would be interesting to see in these video is a segment on how to play against these decks, if you find yourself on the other side of the table. Especially for decks that use unusual strategies like self-milling lands, new players have no idea how to play against them.
As you go through the dredge combo, Volrath's lets you put Dark Ritual on top of your library once it gets milled where you can then allow yourself to draw it off of one of your draw triggers. Gaea's Blessing reshuffles your graveyard to prevent you from milling yourself out Example: I discard Dakmor Salvage which lets me draw a card from Gitrog. I use that draw trigger to dredge 2 and get Dakmor Salvage back. The 2 cards I mill are a land and Dark Ritual. That land causes another draw trigger off of Gitrog. Activate Volrath to move Dark Ritual from the graveyard to the top of library, then let draw trigger resolve to put it into your hand where you can then cast it.
It can win on turn two? I'm a little skeptical of this as only a "focused" deck... personally I think most budget cEDH builds can stomp the average table of non-cEDH decks, no matter they're budget.
If I have one of the Titans, is the Gaea's Blessing and Volrath's Dungeon necessary? I'm still fairly new to Magic in general and I made the deck today. If anyone can explain what those two mentioned cards do besides reassure the reshuffling of the graveyard back into the library, I'd much appreciate it.
I think replacing Wayfarers Bauble or something with a Lotus Petal should be a mandatory upgrade. From having piloted the deck a few times, one of the “shortcomings” is that the Skirge Familiar is you’re only source of the infinite mana, and even then it’s only black mana, which doesn’t bode well IMHO when you’re only mass kill in all black mana is Syphon Life. If you’re in a situation in which the discard outlet is out but it’s not skirge familiar, and you’re either tapped out or already played all the lands for the turn, the lotus petal can be cast, cracked, and returned repeatedly to get a source of green mana which can in turn be used to cast Jarad and blow up a wild mongrel, noose constrictor, or oblivion crowned creature and kill everyone.
I made my Gitrog deck also about going infinite, generate a ton of mana and then exanguinate my opponentes. It became boring for me winning in such a narrow and predictable way and made me a target of everybody. Another issue was that it took a lot of game time to execute the combo and it was boring also for the rest of the players. Now my Gitrog is more voltrony centered on Gitrog's Deathtouch (and other deathtouchers in the deck) with cards like Chariot of Victory and Roar of Challenge while at the same time capitalizing on Gitrog's card engine. It isn't competitive, but it's way more enjoyable to play.
I love my discard free gitrog deck. While the combos are fun I enjoy the puzzle I've created for myself. Too bad windgrace spiked the price of squandered resources that card is bonkers
I have such mixed feelings. I don't hate very many commanders, but I haaate gitrog decks. That being said, I looooooooove that you made a budget deck on it. Honestly, I love all your decks.
Hey Commander's Quarters, loved the deck tech. Say, can we please get something in Boros that isn't Feather? I have a few too many red and white creature cards lying around waiting to be used :)
Can someone break down all the combos for me? I've rewatched the video twice now and i love mitchs videos but this combo kinda has me lost i understand that with skirge familiar and dakmoor salvage we can get infinite mana but if all our payoff cards are in the graveyard except the one with retrace what do we do then? And what if we don't have familiar to make infinite mana aren't we just spinning our wheels? Or what about if we reshuffle because of blessing? Then our retrace card is gone too isn't it? At least temporarily.
How on Earth do you build a gitrog deck without underrealm lich???? For those that aren't very familiar with it, it's a creature that says "if you would draw a card, instead look at the top 3 cards of your library, add one to your hand and send the rest to the graveyard. When gitrog is in play, there are times where you can Mill your entire deck in one go, at the same time drawing like 30 cards.
I love the content of you videos, but for a non-native english speaker it‘s really hard to follow. Not only do you talk super fast, but your speech is incredibly slurry and unclear. The phrase „we‘re also going to play some mana dorks“ sounds like „weralsgonplasmandoks“. And no, slowing down the video does no help. That‘s really a shame, cause again, the content of the videos is really good.
What about faith of the devoted? It goes infinite immediately with skirge familiar and dakmor salvage with "you may pay 1 generic to drain 2 every time you discard or cycle"
Anyone else notice that the picture at 1:52 is pretty much the 1000 dollar commander player on the right and Mitch on the left both going into war. Ye I spend 50 dollars on a deck. Fight me.
For EDH, I have an aggro deck (Lu Xun), a stax deck (Estrid), and an Eldrazi tron deck. Now I will have a dredge combo deck, thanks to you! And yes, my Lu Xun is based on your article! Thanks again!
Hey Mitch, I was wondering if there is a 'Break The Bank' episode on this? If not, I would love to see what is good for The Gitrog Monster now that it's been a couple years since then. Thanks! 😊
Torment of hail fire is another decent win con for 7.50. It says for X black black each opponent pays three life discards a card or sacrifices a nonland permanent and repat for each X.
