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Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Legendary Creature — Human Frog Horror

First strike, deathtouch
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
Creatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.
Whenever Thalia and The Gitrog Monster attacks, sacrifice a creature or land, then draw a card.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{W}{B}{G}
Color identity
BGW
Rarity
mythic
Set
March of the Machine
Price
$5.01
EDHREC rank
#3419
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Thalia and The Gitrog Monster card art
Thalia and The Gitrog Monster hits the table as a 4/4 with first strike and deathtouch that simultaneously taxes opponents' spells, forces land sacrifice from them, and draws you cards whenever lands die — a three-axis threat stapled to a five-mana body. The cost is real: five mana is a steep ask, and the legend rule means it can't pair with The Necrobloom in the command zone, though it fits cleanly in the 99 of decks that also run Glacial Chasm loops.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

61.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

The Necrobloom's mill-lands-into-play engine generates a constant stream of land ETBs and deaths, and Thalia and The Gitrog Monster turns every one of those deaths into a card draw, making the two cards a draw engine when assembled together.

02
Kethis, the Hidden Hand

Kethis, the Hidden Hand

31.1% of decks · synergy 0.22

Kethis, the Hidden Hand recurs legendary permanents from the graveyard, and Thalia and The Gitrog Monster is a legendary creature whose death triggers and land-sacrifice synergies compound with every loop Kethis enables — it's both a value piece and a recursive threat in that shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the primary home for Thalia and The Gitrog Monster — the combination of a taxing effect, land-death draw, and forced sacrifice is uniquely powerful in a multiplayer game where opponents cast many spells and lands die constantly. In Legacy, the card sees fringe play in Death and Taxes variants that want both a disruptive body and card advantage, though the five-mana cost is a genuine liability in a format defined by speed. Modern and Pioneer are legal but largely indifferent; five mana for a creature without immediate board protection is too slow against linear aggro and combo, and neither format has the land-synergy infrastructure to exploit the draw trigger. Oathbreaker offers a niche home as either the planeswalker partner or a supporting piece in Abzan land strategies.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No single card replicates the full package of Thalia and The Gitrog Monster, but you can approximate the two halves separately: Thalia, Guardian of Thraben handles the spell-tax half for under a dollar, while The Gitrog Monster itself covers land-death draw at roughly $2–3. Running both in the 99 costs less than the combined legend and gives you the same text split across two bodies, though you lose the efficiency of having it all on one card that demands an answer.

Price Context

Current price

$5.01 mid tier

At $5.01, Thalia and The Gitrog Monster sits in the mid-price tier — accessible enough for casual Commander builders but not trivially thrown into any pile. Given its high inclusion rate in The Necrobloom decks and its status as a unique effect with no direct reprint pressure announced, the price is likely to stay stable rather than crater.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.