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Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Legendary Creature — Human Frog Horror · {1}{W}{B}{G} · Black/Green/White commander
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.
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What Thalia and The Gitrog Monster actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · attackWhenever Thalia and The Gitrog Monster attacks, sacrifice a creature or land, then draw a card.
- Static ability · hoserCreatures and nonbasic lands your opponents control enter tapped.
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What a Thalia and The Gitrog Monster deck needs
Plays as stax. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- stax pieces, taxes and hatebears that break parity in your favor
- extra land drops to spend — ramp that finds lands, land recursion and card flow (it plays more than one land a turn)
- haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)
The Thalia and The Gitrog Monster deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 12× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 7× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 5× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- Exploration1 mana
- Explore2 mana
- Dryad of the Ilysian Grove3 mana
- Exploration Broodship1 mana
- Azusa, Lost but Seeking3 mana
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
- Deafening Silence1 mana
- Grafdigger's Cage1 mana
- Opposition Agent3 mana
- Ranger-Captain of Eos3 mana
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Ulvenwald Oddity // Ulvenwald Behemoth4 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu2 mana
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- On Wings of Gold4 mana
- Jasmine Boreal of the Seven3 mana
- Ninja Teen3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
- Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
- General's Enforcer2 mana
Combos with Thalia and The Gitrog Monster
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Thalia and The Gitrog Monster is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Ramunap Excavator4,432 decks
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Crucible Of Worlds3,411 decks
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Conduit Of Worlds3,351 decks
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Walk-In Closet2,450 decks
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Perennial Behemoth462 decks
- Thalia and The Gitrog Monster + Glacial Chasm + Mole Man, Moloid Master392 decks
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