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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 wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 17× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
- 13× A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- 11× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 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
- Loot, Exuberant Explorer3 mana
- Wayward Swordtooth3 mana
- Druid Class2 mana
- Icetill Explorer4 mana
A tax, lock or hoser aimed at the opponents — the deck's parity break
- Grand Abolisher2 mana
- Authority of the Consuls1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
- Ghostly Prison3 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Blind Obedience2 mana
- Drannith Magistrate2 mana
- Voice of Victory2 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
- Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
- Hornet Nest3 mana
- Elenda, the Dusk Rose4 mana
- Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
- Esika's Chariot4 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Lathril, Blade of the Elves4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Sterling Grove2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 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
- Flicker of Fate2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Final Showdown1 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Amalia Benavides Aguirre2 mana
- Do or Die2 mana
- Martyr's Cry2 mana
- Pest Control2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Split Up3 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
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 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
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Bastion Protector3 mana
- Greater Auramancy2 mana
- Sterling Grove2 mana
- Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana