Meren v4 by WarOfLion

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 63

Deck overview

This Golgari Midrange deck leverages Meren of Clan Nel Toth alongside a reanimation package to grind down opposing resources and close out games through overwhelming board presence and life-drain triggers. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost mana dorks and burst spells while filling the graveyard with premier targets like Archon of Cruelty, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Kokusho, the Evening Star, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater using tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive. Once assembled on Turn 3-4, the deck cheats these behemoths into play using efficient reanimation spells or Meren's end-step trigger. The deck controls the board with asymmetric attrition engines including Grave Pact, Plaguecrafter, and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, stripping opposing creatures and hands. Victory is achieved through evasive combat damage and life drain loops from Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Kokusho, or an army-wide swing enabled by Finale of Devastation and Living Death.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birthing Pod
  • 1 Birthing Ritual
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Protean Hulk
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician