Thalia and The Gitrog Monster

Gameplan

Deploy Thalia early as a first strike/deathtouch beater that taxes opponents by making their creatures and nonbasic lands enter tapped, slowing the whole table. Abuse the extra land drop plus the attack-trigger sacrifice to draw cards while feeding lands and creatures into recursion engines and aristocrat payoffs. Win through landfall value, repeated sacrifice loops, or just grinding the table out while they durdle through tapped permanents.

Key Cards

• Crucible of Worlds — Replays lands sacrificed to her trigger from the graveyard, turning the cost into pure value.
• Ramunap Excavator — A creature version of land recursion that also feeds itself as sac fodder in a pinch.
• Lotus Field — Sac it to the trigger then replay it for huge mana with Crucible-style effects.
• Dakmor Salvage — Dredge it back repeatedly to draw extra cards and reload the graveyard engine.
• Skullclamp — Turns sacrificed and dying creatures into a relentless card-draw machine.
• Smothering Tithe — Punishes opponents and snowballs mana to fuel land-heavy combos and recursion.
• Mayhem Devil — Each land or creature sacrifice pings the table, building an incremental win condition.
• Splendid Reclamation — Returns every sacrificed land at once for an explosive landfall payoff.

Upgrade Path

Lean fully into a recursion engine: add Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, and self-bouncing lands (Lotus Field, fetchlands) so the attack sacrifice always nets value. Layer aristocrats payoffs and a sacrifice loop (Dakmor Salvage dredge with a draw outlet, or Skullclamp on token makers) to convert grind into inevitability, and add fast mana plus efficient tutors like Survival of the Fittest and Crop Rotation to assemble pieces faster. Tighten removal and protection (Heroic Intervention, Teferi's Protection) since the table will target your engine.