The Commander
Deathtouch
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice The Gitrog Monster unless you sacrifice a land.
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Whenever one or more land cards are put into your graveyard from anywhere, draw a card.
Guide
Gameplan
Turn lands into card advantage and graveyard fuel, sacrificing and replaying them to draw cards every turn while building toward a combo finish. Ramp aggressively with the extra land drop, then either grind value or assemble the Dakmor Salvage/Gitrog combo to draw your deck.
Strengths
- Massive card advantage from land sacrifice triggers and dredge
- Built-in ramp via extra land drops each turn
- Hosts the powerful Dakmor Salvage infinite-draw combo
- Deep self-mill and graveyard synergies in BG
Weaknesses
- Commander removal forces upkeep land sacrifice or loses Gitrog
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate (Rest in Peace, Bojuka Bog)
- Combo lines are intricate and easily disrupted
- Needs lands in graveyard to enable draws, so a slow start stalls the engine
Key Cards
- Dakmor Salvage — Its dredge enables the signature infinite draw-and-discard combo with Gitrog plus a discard outlet.
- Skirge Familiar — Free discard outlet that turns Dakmor Salvage dredges into infinite card draw and mana.
- Lotus Cobra — Each extra land drop makes mana, exploding your ramp and combo potential.
- Crucible of Worlds — Replays sacrificed lands from the graveyard for endless upkeep fodder and triggers.
- Ramunap Excavator — Creature version of Crucible, fueling recursion and land-based card advantage.
- Splendid Reclamation — Returns all milled lands at once for huge ramp and a flood of draw triggers.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana (Mana Crypt, Dark Ritual) and free discard outlets like Putrid Imp to make the combo more reliable and explosive. Include tutors (Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Crop Rotation) to find Dakmor Salvage or your outlet, and a clean payoff like Thassa's Oracle. Round out with strong interaction and graveyard recursion (Eternal Witness, Regrowth) to protect the engine.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Dakmor Salvage + Skirge Familiar (or other free outlet) to draw the deck and win with a finisher
- ▸Reanimating a large threat or assembling Lab Maniac/Thassa's Oracle after drawing out
- ▸Beating down with deathtouch alongside reanimated bombs
- ▸Splendid Reclamation/Field of the Dead value snowballing into overwhelming board advantage
Archetypes
- Combo — Dakmor Salvage plus a free discard outlet draws your entire deck for a guaranteed win.
- Lands — Extra land drops, recursion, and sacrifice payoffs reward a land-matters shell.
- Reanimator — Heavy self-mill loads the graveyard with bombs to reanimate cheaply.
- Value/Midrange — Constant land-draw triggers grind out incremental card advantage all game.
Combos
- The Gitrog Monster + Dakmor Salvage
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- The Gitrog Monster + The Necrobloom
→ Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
- Glacial Chasm + The Gitrog Monster + Ramunap Excavator
→ Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, Lock
- Glacial Chasm + The Gitrog Monster + Crucible of Worlds
→ Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, Lock
- Glacial Chasm + The Gitrog Monster + Conduit of Worlds
→ Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you, Lock
Combos via Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BG), by popularity.
