Aris by Docshrinker

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari aristocrats and reanimator engine commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Its strategy revolves around sacrificing utility creatures, building experience counters, and reanimating high-impact threats every turn for free. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with cards like Sakura-Tribe Elder and seeding the graveyard using Entomb or self-sacrificing creatures like Fleshbag Marauder and Accursed Marauder. Once Meren enters on turn 4, she establishes a continuous resource engine, recurring edicts to keep opposing battlefields clear while draining life totals with Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck closes games around turn 8 through suffocating board control, mass reanimation via Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms, or combat with reanimated beaters. While the deck dominates creature-heavy tables, its heavy reliance on the graveyard and lack of stack interaction make it vulnerable to graveyard exile and fast spell-based combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Cavalier of Night
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Garruk Relentless // Garruk, the Veil-Cursed
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician