Nel Toth

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Meren of Clan Nel Toth leads a Golgari aristocrats and reanimation deck focused on grinding out card advantage, board control, and life totals. The strategy relies on filling the graveyard with potent creature threats and utility pieces, then using Meren and sacrifice outlets to accumulate experience counters for free recursion every turn. By looping sacrifice triggers with cards like Plaguecrafter and Accursed Marauder, you suppress opponent boards while drawing cards and draining life. The deck closes games through explosive life-drain finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, the Evening Star, a massive Living Death, or launching Lord of Extinction with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Paragon of Eternal Wilds
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat