Plunder the Graves by spannerbrain

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari Aristocrats and Reanimator strategy commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The core game plan focuses on filling the graveyard with self-mill and sacrifice fodder during the early turns, establishing Meren on turn four, and steadily accumulating experience counters. Once active, Meren generates compounding card advantage by returning high-impact utility creatures and game-ending threats directly to the battlefield on every end step. The deck controls opposing boards through repeatable sacrifice effects like Butcher of Malakir and Accursed Marauder, while disrupting noncreature permanents with Acidic Slime and Terastodon. To close games, the deck pivots into overwhelming combat damage using overrun effects such as Overwhelming Stampede and Pathbreaker Ibex, or direct life-drain loops via Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Syr Konrad, the Grim. While resilient against standard board wipes due to player-bound experience counters, the deck remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and fast combo strategies that bypass creature combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Altar's Reap
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Bloodspore Thrinax
  • 1 Bonehoard
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Champion of Stray Souls
  • 1 Cloudthresher
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Augur
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extractor Demon
  • 11 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Great Oak Guardian
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kessig Cagebreakers
  • 1 Korozda Guildmage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Lotleth Troll
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Phyrexian Rager
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rise from the Grave
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skullwinder
  • 1 Slippery Karst
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terastodon
  • 1 Thief of Blood
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tribute to the Wild
  • 1 Verdant Force
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridian Emissary
  • 1 Viridian Zealot
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Wretched Confluence
  • 1 Yavimaya Elder