Meren 10-07-26 by DasDragon

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari aristocrats and midrange reanimation engine helmed by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The strategy centers on leveraging self-sacrificing creatures and repeatable sacrifice outlets to accumulate experience counters rapidly. In the early turns, ramp spells like Sakura-Tribe Elder and mill enablers like Satyr Wayfinder fill the graveyard and develop mana. Once Meren of Clan Nel Toth enters on Turn 4, the deck establishes an inevitable attrition loop by repeatedly reanimating fleshbag edicts such as Plaguecrafter, Accursed Marauder, and Merciless Executioner, continuously clearing opposing creature boards while breaking parity through death triggers. The mid-to-late game transitions into decisive table drain and combat pressure via recurring threats such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Massacre Wurm, and Sheoldred, Whispering One, or a mass reanimation swing with Living Death and End-Raze Forerunners. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard hate, the deck boasts resilient recovery through redundant reanimation spells and heavy creature recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Cloakwood Hermit
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creakwood Liege
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farhaven Elf
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotleth Troll
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Ravenous Chupacabra
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vraska, Golgari Queen
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery