Meren's drain & gain by user6730244

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Meren of Clan Nel Toth leads a BG aristocrats/reanimator deck whose primary plan is to sacrifice creatures for value, build experience counters, and return cheap creatures every end step. Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Falkenrath Noble, Syr Konrad, and Mirkwood Bats convert every death into table-wide life loss. Sakura-Tribe Elder, Viscera Seer, Yawgmoth, and Priest of Forgotten Gods provide sac outlets; Ophiomancer, Tendershoot Dryad, Ribtruss Roaster, and Grist make fodder. Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Grist's -5 offer burst drain, while Bolas's Citadel is a top-deck engine and emergency finisher. There is no hidden commander and no infinite combo; the deck wins by grinding through recursion and repeated drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Avoid Fate
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commune with Evil
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deadly Brew
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Merchant of Venom
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Post's Citadel
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ribtruss Roaster
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scion of Halaster
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Study Hall
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Emperor, Hell Tyrant
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat