Reanimate by AndK

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Aristocrats Reanimator engine led by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Its game plan focuses on deploying efficient ramp on Turns 1 through 3 to cast Meren on Turn 4. Once assembled, the deck leverages repeated creature sacrifice to accumulate experience counters, recurring utility creatures from the graveyard during each of its end steps. The engine establishes an oppressive attrition lock around Turn 5 or 6 by cycling edict creatures such as Plaguecrafter and Accursed Marauder alongside Dictate of Erebos to sweep opposing boards. It converts this dominance into a table finish on Turn 8 through repeated life-drain triggers from Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Syr Konrad, the Grim, Blood Artist, and Bastion of Remembrance. While heavily resilient against conventional spot removal due to persistent experience counters and reanimation spells, the deck is naturally vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and lacks stack-based countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Armor of Shadows
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Demon's Disciple
• 1 Desecrated Tomb
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 10 Forest
• 1 Gardenize
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Greater Good
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 High Market
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Life // Death
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plaguecrafter
• 1 Protean Hulk
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rise of the Witch-king
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Simulacrum Shaper
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Strionic Resonator
• 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Talisman of Resilience
• 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1 Tempt with Immortality
• 1 Tom, Bert, and William
• 1 Troop of Ponies
• 1 Twilight Diviner
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Unearth
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat