Meren by user7749778

Format: Commander

Commander: Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Golgari Aristocrats and Reanimator strategy commanded by Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The primary game plan focuses on utilizing efficient graveyard tutors such as Entomb, Buried Alive, and Survival of the Fittest to fill the graveyard with utility creatures and game-ending monsters. Early turns establish mana development and self-sacrificing creatures like Sakura-Tribe Elder and Spore Frog to build experience counters. Once Meren is online, the deck shifts into an oppressive attrition engine using Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Plaguecrafter to dismantle opposing creature boards. Victory is achieved either by overwhelming the table with mass reanimation via Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms or by sacrificing high-power threats like Impervious Greatwurm and Ghalta, Primal Hunger to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord for direct, unblockable table-wide life loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Bronze Dragon
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Ghalta, Primal Hunger
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greed
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Jumbo Cactuar
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phthisis
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclamation Sage
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sire of Seven Deaths
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Strionic Resonator
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Ulamog's Dreadsire
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth