Meren Merening by Borhammer

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari Aristocrats and Reanimator strategy commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The game plan revolves around leveraging early self-sacrificing creatures and self-mill enablers to accumulate experience counters quickly. Once Meren is established, she generates steady card and board advantage by returning creatures directly from the graveyard to the battlefield every end step. The deck systematically suppresses opponents' boards using repeatable sacrifice triggers from Butcher of Malakir, combat locks via Spore Frog, and targeted removal on utility creatures like Acidic Slime and Ravenous Chupacabra. Game-ending pressure is achieved through explosive turns with Living Death, multi-target life drain via Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Syr Konrad, the Grim, or overwhelming combat damage buffed by Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest and Overwhelming Stampede. The deck demonstrates robust mid-game resilience because accumulated experience counters persist even if Meren is temporarily removed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodspore Thrinax
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compy Swarm
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotleth Troll
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Phyrexian Plaguelord
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Slippery Karst
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Force
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridian Emissary
  • 1 Viridian Zealot
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vivid Grove
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat