Putting the Fun in Funeral by user9547729

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari aristocrats and reanimator strategy piloted by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. It establishes mana acceleration on early turns using efficient mana dorks and sacrificial ramp creatures like Sakura-Tribe Elder. Once Meren resolves on Turn 3 or 4, the deck converts sacrifice outlets and self-recurring creatures into experience counters, creating an engine that returns creatures directly to the battlefield every end step. The midgame focuses on asymmetric resource denial, using Mindslicer to empty opposing hands, Butcher of Malakir to suppress opposing boards, and Spore Frog to negate combat damage. Victory is secured around Turn 7 by repeatedly reanimating high-impact drain creatures such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel alongside steady combat damage. Strong redundant draw engines and creature tutors ensure high resilience, though the deck remains vulnerable to mass graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Final Act
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Gorma, the Gullet
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Primal Druid
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saryth, the Viper's Fang
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinner of Souls
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viridian Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, the Cutting Glare
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat