I intentionally am not running Entomb, Demonic Tutor, Diabolic Intent, or Gravebreaker Lamia - I own them, they're obviously good, and I can't trust myself with that kind of power. The deck can also go tall though, using Brawn to ensure its massive Wurms and Trolls rumble in for a boatload of hard-to-stop damage. It usually goes surprisingly wide - Spider Spawning, Worm Harvest, Kessig Cagebreakers, and Avenger of Zendikar can bring a huge party out all at once, and those little dorks are deadly especially if aided by a Pathbreaker Ibex. This deck has proven quite strong, capable of winning along multiple angles, although of course horribly vulnerable to graveyard hate. They both are also, in effect, 'something for nothing' type effects, ones where the more dredge and landfall I have the better subsequent self-mill and landfall payoffs get. On its face there isn't a lot in common here, but Life from the Loam, Dakmor Salvage, Worm Harvest, and good ol' Grave Troll are the precious fuel that marries these two strategies, giving me cause to flip my deck into the 'yard to find lands to chain out to trigger landfall over and over and over.

Oh, and a deck doing both of these things? Also had a good incentive to be a Living Death and use one of my all-time favorite spells to flip the table on its head. So I wanted a deck that, unironically, aimed to beat face with Boneyard Wurms in EDH. I've still got it, sleeved and ready, and despite being an intro deck full of french vanillas and close to zero interaction I've won a LOT of games with it over the last decade. My favorite deck in casual of all time was a stock, unmodified Grave Power deck from Dark Ascenion, the one starring Boneyard Wurm and Ghoultree and Splinterfright. I force self-mill any time it is a present strategy in a limited format. I love Golgari Grave-Troll for its massive size and resilience, not the combos. I've loved Dredge, but I especially love Dredge to enable graveyard matters decks (now known as 'Undergrowth' decks). Gitrog enables this, of course, by having a built-in Exploration effect. In particular, I love how a critical mass of Landfall effects gives you increasing amounts of 'something for nothing' the more landfall triggers you have the more you want to stack trigger on top of trigger on top of trigger. While I do love that about ye' ol Frog Monster, I more wanted to pay homage to two of my favorite strategies in one deck: Most people see Gitrog and see infinite combos or infinite durdles.

Dredge modern primer