Grek by SpagNoodle

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Meren of Clan Nel Toth pilots a value-driven Golgari recursion deck that grinds opponents down through repeated creature death triggers, attrition, and graveyard loops. The primary plan uses Meren's experience counters to recur key creatures each turn, generating incremental advantage from sacrifice outlets, drain effects, and board control. Secondary paths include mass reanimation with Living Death or Rise of the Witch-king, and direct damage via Jarad, Gray Merchant, or Syr Konrad. The deck has no infinite combos, relying instead on sustained pressure and recursion to outlast opponents. Its main weaknesses are a lack of stack interaction and vulnerability to graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Acidic Slime
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Butcher of Malakir
• 1 Cankerbloom
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Caustic Caterpillar
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deathreap Ritual
• 1 Demon's Disciple
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Elvish Mystic
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolutionary Leap
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fauna Shaman
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 4 Forest
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Grim Backwoods
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 Grisly Salvage
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 High Market
• 1 Hissing Quagmire
• 1 Insidious Fungus
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Khalni Garden
• 1 Kishla Village
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Plaguecrafter
• 1 Protean Hulk
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Rise of the Witch-king
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Spymaster's Vault
• 1 Svogthos, the Restless Tomb
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Wood Elves
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat