Meren Mall Goth by user8249448

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck is a Golgari aristocrats/reanimator value engine. It feeds creatures into sacrifice outlets - Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder, Altar of Dementia, Chthonian Nightmare - to stack experience counters and trigger death payoffs like Zulaport Cutthroat, Blood Artist, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Pitiless Plunderer. Meren's end-step trigger then returns the best creature in the graveyard every turn, escalating from 1-drop fodder into the big guns: Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, the Evening Star, Massacre Wurm, and Archon of Cruelty. Self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Undead Butler, Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, the dredgers) plus dedicated reanimation (Entomb/Buried Alive into Reanimate, Animate Dead, Living Death, Victimize) supplement the command zone. There are no infinite combos - the deck wins by grinding life totals down in small increments, then in massive drain chunks, with a combat fallback of reanimated tramplers and flying dragons. Birthing Pod serves as the toolbox tutor.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dina, Essence Brewer
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Gavony Unhallowed
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Penumbra Wurm
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stinkweed Imp
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Young Wolf
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat