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The Gitrog Monster

Legendary Creature — Frog Horror

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.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
mythic
Set
Innistrad Remastered
Price
$4.15
EDHREC rank
#885
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The Gitrog Monster card art
The Gitrog Monster hits the table as a 6/6 deathtouch that draws a card every time a land goes to your graveyard — and it puts lands there itself by demanding you sacrifice one each upkeep. The cost is real, but Dakmor Salvage turns that liability into an engine: discard it to The Gitrog Monster's draw trigger, dredge it back, and repeat until you've seen your whole deck. Hearthhull, the Worldseed takes that loop even further, making The Gitrog Monster one of the most powerful five-mana permanents ever printed for graveyard-land strategies.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hearthhull, the Worldseed

Hearthhull, the Worldseed

94.0% of decks · synergy 0.77

Hearthhull, the Worldseed runs The Gitrog Monster in 94% of its decks because the two cards form the spine of the same engine — Hearthhull floods the graveyard with lands while The Gitrog Monster converts every one of those land drops into cards, generating the kind of recursive advantage that ends games.

03
The Necrobloom

The Necrobloom

75.8% of decks · synergy 0.64

The Necrobloom reaches for The Gitrog Monster in 76% of its lists because The Necrobloom puts lands directly into the graveyard at scale, and every one of those triggers draws a card off The Gitrog Monster, turning a slow token plan into a high-velocity card engine.

04
Lord Windgrace

Lord Windgrace

78.0% of decks · synergy 0.61

Lord Windgrace slots The Gitrog Monster into 78% of its builds because Lord Windgrace's plus ability discards lands and his minus puts them back — The Gitrog Monster draws off both halves, making every Windgrace activation generate additional resources for free.

05
Soul of Windgrace

Soul of Windgrace

68.2% of decks · synergy 0.51

Soul of Windgrace runs The Gitrog Monster in 68% of its lists for the same land-cycling synergy, using Soul's discard-a-land ability to trigger The Gitrog Monster's draw while simultaneously stocking the graveyard for later recursion.

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 where The Gitrog Monster lives — it's a combo centerpiece in dedicated Gitrog lists and a high-value engine piece in any Golgari or four-color lands shell. In Legacy, it's legal but rarely played; the format's speed means a five-mana legendary creature needs an immediate game-winning interaction, and while the Dakmor Salvage loop exists, Legacy has faster and more resilient combo lines. Modern and Pioneer legality is mostly academic — The Gitrog Monster hasn't broken into either format's competitive scene, and the lack of format-defining graveyard-land support in those pools keeps it on the shelf. Oathbreaker is the sleeper format for it, where The Gitrog Monster as a planeswalker companion in a graveyard-focused shell can dominate at a lower power ceiling than Legacy demands.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.15 cheap tier

At $4.15, The Gitrog Monster is cheap for how much work it does — a five-mana combo engine and card-draw machine in one of Commander's most popular archetypes. That price reflects wide reprint availability, and it's unlikely to spike; pick it up without hesitation if you're building any lands-matter or graveyard strategy.

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