Meren of Clan Nel Toth by user4456356

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck operates as a focused Golgari reanimator and stax engine. It establishes early mana acceleration on Turn 1 with one-drop mana elves, deploying Meren on Turn 3 to initiate continuous graveyard recursion. The deck transitions into heavy resource denial on Turn 4, utilizing oppressive stax elements like Contamination alongside repeatable edict creatures such as Accursed Marauder and Plaguecrafter. An exceptional tutor package—including Demonic Tutor, Entomb, Survival of the Fittest, and Birthing Pod—ensures dependable access to key lock pieces and reanimation targets. Cheating high-impact threats like Sheoldred, Whispering One, Tergrid, God of Fright, and Wurmcoil Engine into play establishes decisive board control. Without an instant infinite combo, the deck closes the game through methodical combat damage over three turn rotations, finishing on Turn 7. It exhibits excellent engine resilience and recovery, though it remains vulnerable to early graveyard exile and instant-speed stack combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Death-Dweller
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Collector Ouphe
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Defense of the Heart
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Druid of Purification
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pattern of Rebirth
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yavimaya Hollow
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth