MEREN by SETOLE

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

Meren of Clan Nel Toth commands a resilient Golgari aristocrats and reanimator deck designed to grind down opponents through compounding graveyard recursion and asymmetric attrition. The deck accelerates in the opening turns with efficient mana dorks and ramp creatures before resolving Meren on Turn 4. Once Meren is active, sacrificing utility creatures like Sakura-Tribe Elder, Spore Frog, and Fleshbag Marauder builds experience counters while repeatedly recycling board-controlling effects. By Turn 6, the deck transitions from value generation to a decisive must-answer state, leveraging engines such as Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest, Butcher of Malakir, or a massive Living Death. Opponents are systematically stripped of creatures and combat relevance, allowing the deck to close the game on Turn 8 through wide combat swings, aristocrat drain via Blood Artist and Warren Soultrader, or direct life loss from Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Barter in Blood
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodspore Thrinax
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indrik Stomphowler
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Jarad's Orders
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Korozda Guildmage
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mulch
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Primal Growth
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scourge of Nel Toth
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Thief of Blood
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tribute to the Wild
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridian Emissary
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wall of Blossoms
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wood Elves
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery