The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
Legendary Creature — Frog Horror Mount
Trample, haste
Whenever The Gitrog deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice a creature that saddled it this turn. If you do, draw X cards, then put up to X land cards from your hand onto the battlefield tapped, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Saddle 1
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3938
The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride hits the table as a 8/8 trampler that converts lands into card advantage on every attack, turning your mana base into a threat engine. The cost is real — you're saccing a land each time you want the draw trigger — but decks like Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh that want lands in the graveyard treat that cost as a feature, not a bug.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh
Cleopatra, Exiled Pharaoh generates value from permanents entering and leaving play, and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride feeds that engine on both ends — the land sacrifice fuels graveyard synergies while the card draw keeps the hand stocked to replay them.
Jenova, Ancient Calamity
Jenova, Ancient Calamity wants high-power creatures that generate value incidentally, and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride delivers a massive body plus card draw without requiring any setup beyond attacking.
Yargle and Multani
Yargle and Multani lives in the big-power-number space, and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride slots in as another oversized threat that converts board presence into card advantage rather than just trading in combat.
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis is always looking to fill the graveyard fast, and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride provides a repeatable, attack-triggered way to pitch lands there while refueling hand size.
Dina, Essence Brewer
Dina, Essence Brewer drains opponents whenever you gain life, and The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride pairs naturally with life-gain loops by providing a big lifelink-adjacent body that keeps generating card advantage through the combat step.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride does its best work — 100-card singleton gives you enough land density to sustain the sacrifice trigger across multiple turns, and the 8/8 trample body closes games fast in a format where combat damage often goes unchecked. In Modern and Legacy, a five-mana creature that doesn't immediately win the game on entry faces a brutal bar; it's theoretically castable but not competitively realistic. Pioneer and Standard are softer environments, but a five-mana do-nothing-until-combat threat still struggles to justify the slot outside of dedicated land-synergy brews.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.