Meren by heckyeahboi

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Golgari deck, helmed by Meren of Clan Nel Toth, blends graveyard attrition, aristocrats value, and compact combo finishes. The primary game plan establishes early mana acceleration before deploying Meren alongside repeatable sacrifice outlets and self-sacrificing utility creatures. It controls the battlefield by recurring edict effects such as Plaguecrafter and Accursed Marauder every end step, whittling down opposing creatures while bypassing ward, hexproof, and indestructible. When ready to close the game, the deck transitions from grindy attrition to an instant-speed combo finish using Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog, or secondary lines like Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed with Walking Ballista. With extensive tutor packages including Demonic Tutor, Buried Alive, and Protean Hulk, the deck reliably finds its pieces while maintaining extreme resilience against board wipes through cheap reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flare of Cultivation
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Krosan Grip
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Matzalantli, the Great Door // The Core
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Noose Constrictor
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician