Converting land cards entering the graveyard into continuous card draw while enabling non-deterministic Dredge loops creates one of the most famous and lethal combo decks in Commander history. On Moxfield’s competitive and high-power charts, few Golgari () legends command as much terrifying speed as The Gitrog Monster.
As a 6/6 Deathtouch legend costing five mana (), The Gitrog Monster requires a land sacrifice during your upkeep, grants an additional land play on your turn, and draws a card whenever one or more land cards enter your graveyard from anywhere. By pairing Gitrog with Dakmor Salvage and a discard outlet, you create an infinite loop using Dredge 2 to mill your entire deck, generate infinite mana, and shuffle your graveyard indefinitely via Eldrazi Titans like Kozilek, Butcher of Truth for an instant-speed win.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Gitrog list, detailing how to execute the iconic Dakmor Salvage loop and convert graveyard lands into total table victory.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with The Gitrog Monster requires a deck structure dense with land tutors, free discard outlets, dredge triggers, and fast Golgari acceleration.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Ramp aggressively using mana dorks like Elves of Deep Shadow, fast rocks, and tutors like Crop Rotation to fetch key land pieces or discard outlets.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Deploy The Gitrog Monster while holding up protection or tutor for Dakmor Salvage via Entomb or Sylvan Crop Rotation.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Assemble a discard outlet (e.g., Putrid Imp or Oblivion Crown) with Dakmor Salvage in hand. Execute the infinite Dredge loop to generate infinite mana, draw your entire deck, and drain opponents with looped spells.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Toad’s Dredge Engine
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Gitrog by pairing his draw engine with continuous land sacrifice, free discard enablers, and graveyard reshufflers.
Dakmor Salvage
The ultimate single-card combo piece. Discarding Dakmor Salvage triggers Gitrog’s card draw. Replacing the draw with Dredge 2 puts Dakmor back in your hand while milling two cards. Every time a land is milled into the graveyard during Dredge, Gitrog stacks an additional draw trigger, resulting in net-positive draws and infinite deck sifting.
Putrid Imp / Oblivion Crown / Skirge Familiar
Essential free discard outlets. Skirge Familiar adds for every discarded card, generating infinite black mana during the Dakmor Salvage loop to cast win conditions directly out of your hand.
Kozilek, Butcher of Truth / Gaea’s Blessing
Graveyard reshuffle insurance. When Kozilek or Gaea’s Blessing is milled during the Dredge loop, its trigger shuffles your entire graveyard back into your library, preventing you from milling out and allowing infinite loop repetitions.
Crop Rotation / Sylvan Safekeeper
Land tutors and instant-speed land sacrifice protection. Sylvan Safekeeper gives Gitrog Shroud by sacrificing lands, which grants protection while simultaneously triggering Gitrog’s draw engine.
3. Copy & Paste The Gitrog Monster 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 The Gitrog Monster
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Assassin's Trophy
1 Autumn's Veil
1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
1 Bayou
1 Beseech the Mirror
1 Birds of Paradise
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Boseiju, Who Endures
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Chains of Mephistopheles
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Crop Rotation
1 Culling the Weak
1 Dakmor Salvage
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Deathrite Shaman
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Deathcap Glade
1 Eldritch Evolution
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Elvish Guide
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Entomb
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Finale of Devastation
1 Force of Vigor
1 Fyndhorn Elves
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Gemstone Caverns
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jeweled Lotus
1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
1 Life from the Loam
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mawloc
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Mox Amber
1 Mox Diamond
1 Mox Opal
1 Nature's Claim
1 Necropotence
1 Nurturing Peatland
1 Oblivion Crown
1 Opposition Agent
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Overgrown Tomb
1 Peer into the Abyss
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Polluted Delta
1 Putrid Imp
1 Ramunap Excavator
1 Reanimate
1 Skirge Familiar
1 Sol Ring
1 Squandered Resources
1 Sylvan Library
1 Sylvan Safekeeper
1 Sylvan Scrying
1 Thoughtseize
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Tyvar's Stand
1 Underrealm Lich
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Veil of Summer
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Wild Mongrel
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worldly Tutor
1 Zenith Feaster
10 Forest
8 Swamp
Summary: Feed the Monster, Win the Game
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize The Gitrog Monster because he converts simple land plays and graveyard Dredge mechanics into unstoppable, deterministic infinite loops. By combining Dakmor Salvage with free discard outlets and Eldrazi shufflers, you loop through your entire library at instant speed. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, feed the monster, and dominate your next Commander pod.
