The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
Color Identity
Details
Mana Value
5
Popularity
#614
of 3,466 commanders · via EDHREC
Card Text
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
6/5
Playstyle
Aggro · Fast · Minimal interaction · Wins by combat
- Aggression
- 4 of 5
- Speed
- 4 of 5
- Interaction
- 2 of 5
- Combat
- 4 of 5
- Engine
- 3 of 5
- Complexity
- 2 of 5
Card Price
Strategy Guides
Ramp Strategy Guide
Ramp decks are for players who want to spend the early game accelerating so later turns happen ahead of schedule. This strategy wants to build more mana than the table, using mana ramp EDH staples, extra land drops, dorks, and rocks, to win through earlier threats, large spells, or a resource lead opponents must answer. Ramp is different from Landfall because acceleration is the point, and different from Big Mana because it is the engine rather than the payoff. The best ramp commanders reward extra mana sources while still giving you something meaningful to cast.
Landfall Strategy Guide
Landfall decks are for players who want every land drop to become a trigger, not just another mana source. This strategy wants to put lands onto the battlefield repeatedly, using fetch lands, extra land drops, land recursion, and landfall commanders, to win through tokens, counters, damage, cards, or other lands matter decks EDH payoffs. In the Ramp, Landfall, and Big Mana cluster, Ramp accelerates mana, Big Mana spends that mana on huge spells, and Landfall treats the land entering as the engine itself. The deck feels like turning the most reliable game action into a chain of visible rewards.
Aggro Strategy Guide
Aggro decks are for players who want to commit threats early, attack often, and make combat math matter every turn. This strategy wants to pressure all opponents with efficient attackers, using anthems, haste, attack triggers, extra combats, and aggro commanders, to win through repeated combat damage before slower engines stabilize. In Commander that still means pushing through 120 total damage, so go-wide aggro EDH decks need refueling and scaling damage rather than only fast starts. Aggro differs from Tokens because it focuses on attacking with the bodies, from Voltron because it spreads pressure across many creatures, and from Infect because it deals life-total damage instead of poison.
Sacrifice Strategy Guide
Sacrifice decks are for players who want their own permanents to be flexible resources rather than pieces to protect at all costs. This strategy wants to feed creatures, artifacts, and tokens into a sacrifice outlet, using fodder makers, recursion, and sacrifice commanders, to win through mana loops, edicts, drain payoffs, or a steady resource lead. Unlike Aristocrats, it is broader than death trigger drain, and unlike Tokens it values bodies mainly as expendable fuel. The best sacrifice commanders keep the engine moving even when opponents point removal at your board.
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