Meren of Clan Nel Toth by ortize89

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth, focusing on a classic aristocrats and reanimator control strategy. The early game focuses on deploying self-sacrificing utility creatures and ramp dorks to fill the graveyard and build mana. Once Meren enters the battlefield on Turn 4, she immediately establishes an experience counter engine that reanimates key creatures directly to the battlefield at each end step. The deck locks down opponents by looping edict effects such as Plaguecrafter and Fleshbag Marauder, while Spore Frog completely invalidates combat damage from opposing attackers. Winning the game is achieved through steady attrition, reanimating large beaters like Altanak, the Thrice-Called, and draining opponents with Falkenrath Noble. While resilient to board wipes thanks to persistent experience counters, the deck remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate and lacks stack-based countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altanak, the Thrice-Called
  • 1 Basal Thrull
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bone Shredder
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Elvish Regrower
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 16 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Glowspore Shaman
  • 1 Gravelighter
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Heap Doll
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Krosan Wayfarer
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Melira, Sylvok Outcast
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Say Its Name
  • 1 Scavenging Ooze
  • 1 Scorn-Blade Berserker
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Soul Enervation
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat