Meren by BishieTheFishie

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari aristocrats and reanimator strategy helmed by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard with high-utility creatures, sacrificing fodder to accumulate experience counters, and repeatedly reanimating impactful threats for free during each end step. In the early game, the deck establishes its resource engine using self-milling creatures like Stitcher's Supplier and ramp like Sakura-Tribe Elder, deploying Meren on Turn 3 or 4. Once assembled, the deck locks down opposing creature boards and combat through recursive attrition engines like Demon's Disciple and Spore Frog. Midgame transitions into decisive life drain using Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and The Meathook Massacre, supported by mass reanimation spells like Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms to close the game across multiple turns. While resilient against single-target creature removal thanks to instant sacrifice outlets, the deck remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abhorrent Overlord
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Avatar Destiny
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Carnivorous Cultivator // Enroot
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Foundation Breaker
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Hidden Grotto
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Joo Dee, One of Many
  • 1 Khalni Garden
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Spinner of Souls
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Strangled Cemetery
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Warring Triad
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Workshop Warchief
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan