Ice Cycle by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Commander: Merieke Ri Berit

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Merieke Ri Berit leads an Esper control shell that converts targeted theft into repeated removal. The primary plan is to land mana rocks, cast Merieke, and use her tap ability to take the most dangerous creature, either holding it tapped or untapping her to destroy it and steal another. Secondary paths are evasive/protected beaters, Lavinia's mass detain, and The Darkness Crystal recursion of exiled creatures. There is no hidden commander or DFC; the deck is built around Merieke's single face. It wins by attrition-small unblockable/protection creatures and stolen high-power threats-not by a compact combo. The deck has no actual infinite combos or deterministic lock, so games rely on board control and slow chip-down damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Sanctum
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arctic Aven
  • 1 Azorius Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barrenton Cragtreads
  • 1 Black Scarab
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Baron of Vizkopa
  • 1 Blue Scarab
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bottomless Vault
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Armor
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dauntless River Marshal
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dovin's Veto
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eclipsed Merrow
  • 1 Flooded Woodlands
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Galina's Knight
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Glaciers
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Green Scarab
  • 1 Gwyllion Hedge-Mage
  • 1 Harbor Bandit
  • 1 Haunting Apparition
  • 1 Hazerider Drake
  • 1 Icatian Store
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jorubai Murk Lurker
  • 1 Kefnet's Monument
  • 1 Land Cap
  • 1 Lapis Lazuli Talisman
  • 1 Lavinia of the Tenth
  • 1 Lochmere Serpent
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Merieke Ri Berit
  • 1 Nacre Talisman
  • 1 Nimbus Maze
  • 1 Obelisk of Esper
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Onyx Talisman
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Port Town
  • 1 Possessed Aven
  • 1 Possessed Nomad
  • 1 Raffine's Tower
  • 1 Rasputin, the Oneiromancer
  • 1 Red Scarab
  • 1 Righteous War
  • 1 River Delta
  • 1 Sand Silos
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skeleton Ship
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectral Lynx
  • 1 Stillmoon Cavalier
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Unbender Tine
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vedalken Outlander
  • 1 Vodalian Zombie
  • 1 Void Rend
  • 1 Wanderbrine Rootcutters
  • 1 White Scarab
  • 1 Woodlot Crawler
  • 1 Zombie Outlander