With all three of these cards on the field, you can mill out your entire library, but since you aren’t playing blue, you won’t have access to Laboratory Maniac to instantly win the game, so what do you do? My preferred discard outlet for this combo is Skirge Familiar, since its ability does not cost any mana, but rather generates as much black mana as you wish (also because Skirge Familiar is a card that has hardly seen the light of day at the EDH table). Repeat to draw a bunch of cards and mill yourself as much as you want. If you have the Gitrog Monster and a discard outlet on the field, you can discard the Salvage to the outlet and dredge it back to your hand, leaving you back where you started except you have two more cards in your graveyard, you gain whatever effect the discard outlet gave you, and you’re up a card if you happened to mill a land. I’m gonna quote on this one, since he explains it pretty well: Sure, it’s a shoe-in to any dredge strategy in Commander (and sometimes even Legacy), but with the Gitrog, things just got nuts.

But what happens if we replace that draw with something else? You see, every time one or more land cards are put into your graveyard, whether from your hand, the battlefield, or your library, you get to draw a card.

Its abilities care a lot about lands, but it is its second triggered ability that our Second-in-Command card takes advantage of. The legend of The Gitrog Monster, or the Gitrog for short, first surfaced with last week’s Magic Story “ Sacrifice”, which also previewed the new card for this hungry Frog Horror from Shadows Over Innistrad. Even if you have, I still want to highlight it here since it’s not every day you see a land take the position of Second-in-Command, so I figured I wanted to make a full write-up on it. Welcome back to Second-in-Command, where this week I bring you a combo that many of you may have already seen.

Gitrog dredge edh