Meren Necromancy by user1611193

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Golgari Aristocrats and Reanimator engine commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. It controls the pace of the game through relentless, asymmetric attrition, sacrificing its own creatures to trigger edict effects, drain life totals, and bury opponents in card advantage. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with creatures like Sakura-Tribe Elder and Birds of Paradise, quickly stacking experience counters once Meren hits the battlefield. Mid-game turns establish suffocating control loops using creatures like Plaguecrafter and enchantments like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos, denying opponents any stable creature presence while Spore Frog blunts aggressive attacks. The deck finishes decisively by chaining reanimation on Gray Merchant of Asphodel, casting a game-ending Living Death, or channeling massive mana from Pitiless Plunderer and Ashnod's Altar into Torment of Hailfire. Its resilience is exceptional because experience counters stay on the player, allowing instant recovery from board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Accursed Marauder
• 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Ashnod's Altar
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Birthing Pod
• 1 Black Market
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Deathrite Shaman
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Demon's Disciple
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
• 1 Druid of Purification
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Fleshbag Marauder
• 7 Forest
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Gravelighter
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Grim Backwoods
• 1 Guardian Project
• 1 Haywire Mite
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Journey to Eternity // Atzal, Cave of Eternity
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Krosan Grip
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Moldervine Reclamation
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Necromancy
• 1 Nurturing Peatland
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pattern of Rebirth
• 1 Persist
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Delver
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 1 Plaguecrafter
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
• 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spore Frog
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Wood
• 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Triarch Praetorian
• 1 Twilight Diviner
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat