Unending & Unabiding, Meren by Kurivyx

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 71

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed Golgari Reanimator Combo build headlined by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Rather than relying solely on slow grindy attrition, the list focuses on hyper-efficient creature tutoring and low-cost graveyard reanimation to achieve rapid, deterministic victories as early as Turn 3. The primary win condition executes through Protean Hulk, which when sacrificed tutors Warren Soultrader, Blood Artist, and Gravecrawler directly onto the battlefield for an immediate, infinite life-drain loop. A compact secondary win line is provided by Witherbloom Apprentice paired with Chain of Smog. The deck's engine is powered by an extensive suite of 1-CMC mana dorks, fast rituals, and top-tier tutors like Entomb, Survival of the Fittest, and Demonic Tutor. Potent disruptive pieces including Opposition Agent, Orcish Bowmasters, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Force of Vigor stymie opposing strategies, while Sylvan Safekeeper and Veil of Summer protect combo execution windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Activated Sleeper
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Apprentice Necromancer
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Body Snatcher
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Footsteps of the Goryo
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manglehorn
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician