Stalker - Meren - Performance by FriendlyFireProxies

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Golgari Midrange Aristocrats deck centers on Meren of Clan Nel Toth, utilizing efficient mana dorks and early tutors to establish a potent graveyard engine by Turn 3. The deck leverages sacrifice outlets and low-cost creatures to rapidly accumulate experience counters, allowing Meren to freely reanimate high-impact cards each end step. By looping edict creatures like Plaguecrafter and Fleshbag Marauder alongside defensive tools like Spore Frog, the deck imposes heavy, recurring attrition on opponents' boards and hands. The primary win condition revolves around reanimating large threats such as Razaketh, the Foulblooded and looping Gray Merchant of Asphodel or Syr Konrad, the Grim to drain all opponents simultaneously. The deck boasts exceptional resource recovery, high tutor density, and flexible interaction, allowing it to rebuild quickly after board wipes. While vulnerable to persistent graveyard hate like Rest in Peace, its redundant reanimation lines and raw card advantage make it a highly resilient and oppressive threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridian Zealot
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat