My time with Gitrog has been a steep learning curve, and even now after over two and a half years of perfecting the list and play-style, I’m still finding new details and angles to this commander that rekindle my initial interest in the deck. I have been playing Gitrog since the beginning of 2019 – more or less continuously – with a couple random “affairs on the side” with Hogaak and mono-black Sidisi. It’s popularity however has decreased significantly, and with Gitrog’s untimely demise in Duel Commander format, Leviathan Commander is one of the final two formats keeping the frog alive – with me being one of its last disciples. Already in its early days, even despite seeing essentially no Standard, Modern or Legacy play, The Gitrog Monster has become a powerful commander – powerful enough to make it into the highest competitive EDH power-level tiers for quite some time. As soon as this little (or actually not so little) frog was presented in Shadows Over Innistrad spoilers in early 2016, most creative players already started ‘crunching the combos’ trying to come up with the most efficient way to abuse Gitrog’s stacked set of abilities. Unfortunately, one of the cards on the verge of ‘extinction’ is The Gitrog Monster. This process however, takes toll on the META and causes cards (or in some cases entire decks or strategies) to fall out of favor with the players, or become entirely forgotten. No matter the format, the players have been persistently coming up with new ideas, combinations of cards or whole new play-styles, which in harmony with Wizards of the Coast regularly releasing new cards for fans to tinker with, provides perfect conditions for these ongoing changes. Over the years since it’s conception in 1993, Magic the Gathering has been constantly evolving.
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