This isnt just high demand
Its whole schtick is that it gives +1/+1 counters and untaps creatures if a permanent left the battlefield during your turn
This is a really great card for most blue decks but works really well in graveyard based decks
Shockingly, another card that lets you pay life or sacrifice creatures instead of paying its cost has been known to break formats
In Commander, though, you usually control your commander when casting it, which means you get both effects at once
Decklist: The Gitrog Monster in Commander The Gitrog Monster | Illustration by Jason Kang Commander (1) Artifacts (2) Creatures (31) Avenger of Zendikar Baloth Prime Bloodghast Caustic Caterpillar Demon of Dark Schemes Fang, Fearless l'Cie Golgari Brownscale Golgari Grave-Troll Golgari Thug Lotus Cobra Necrotic Ooze Noose Constrictor Rampaging Baloths Ramunap Excavator Reclamation Sage Rumbleweed Sakura-Tribe Elder Satyr Wayfinder Scute Swarm Skirge Familiar Smothering Abomination Spore Frog Springbloom Druid Stinkweed Imp Syr Konrad, the Grim Terastodon Tireless Tracker Titania, Protector of Argoth Viscera Seer Whisper, Blood Liturgist Zulaport Cutthroat Instants (5) Elemental Teachings Grisly Salvage Harrow Roiling Regrowth Windgrace's Judgment Sorceries (10) Dread Return Exsanguinate Gaze of Granite Jarad's Orders Life from the Loam Living Death Spider Spawning Splendid Reclamation Tempt with Discovery Worm Harvest Enchantments (6) Ayula's Influence Burgeoning Dictate of Erebos Spelunking Tectonic Split The Mending of Dominaria Artifacts (4) Cauldron of Souls Conduit of Worlds Hedge Shredder Swiftfoot Boots Lands (41) Barren Moor Bojuka Bog Command Tower Cryptic Caves Dakmor Salvage Drownyard Temple Evolving Wilds Field of the Dead Forest x9 Geier Reach Sanitarium Ghost Quarter Golgari Rot Farm Grim Backwoods Hissing Quagmire Llanowar Wastes Lotus Field Mortuary Mire Myriad Landscape Slippery Karst Swamp x8 Tectonic Edge Temple of Malady Terramorphic Expanse Thespian's Stage Tranquil Thicket Witch's Cottage The Gitrog Monster is a towering example of how Golgari decks get built from the graveyard out
