Merieke Ri Berit

Commander / EDH* WUB (Esper)

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Untap (18)

• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Unbender Tine
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Niblis of the Breath
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Tideforce Elemental
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Djeru's Resolve
• 1x Energy Arc
• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Ioreth of the Healing House

Other (9)

• 1x Blightspeaker
• 1x Dakra Mystic
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Forensic Researcher
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Pitiless Pontiff
• 1x Willbreaker
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Agatha's Soul Cauldron

Mana (5)

• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1x Scuttlemutt
• 1x Dream Thrush
• 1x Reef Shaman

Protection (14)

• 1x Brine Shaman
• 1x Devoted Caretaker
• 1x Diplomatic Escort
• 1x Giver of Runes
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Hisoka's Guard
• 1x Kitsune Palliator
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Samite Elder
• 1x Vodalian Illusionist
• 1x Dark Privilege
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Pippin, Guard of the Citadel

Sacrifice (10)

• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Brine Shaman
• 1x Bushmeat Poacher
• 1x Corpse Traders
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1x Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• 1x Blood for Bones

Bomb (5)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Disciple of the Ring
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Nihiloor
• 1x Phenax, God of Deception

Steal (4)

• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Empress Galina

Commander (1)

Removal (12)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Corpse Traders
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Witch Hunter
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Final Payment
• 1x Brigid, Hero of Kinsbaile
• 1x Angelic Purge
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Flesh Allergy
• 1x Mind Extraction

Draw (7)

• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Bushmeat Poacher
• 1x Cephalid Broker
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• 1x Morbid Curiosity

Drain (1)

• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods

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Other (103)

• 2x Carnage Altar
• 2x Culling Dais
• 1x Jandor's Saddlebags
• 2x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Unbender Tine
• 1x Soldevi Golem
• 1x Angel of Condemnation
• 1x Aphetto Alchemist
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Brine Shaman
• 2x Bushmeat Poacher
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Charm Peddler
• 1x Corpse Traders
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Demon of Catastrophes
• 1x Devoted Caretaker
• 1x Diplomatic Escort
• 1x Disciple of the Ring
• 1x Dread Cacodemon
• 1x Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1x Fatestitcher
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Hisoka's Guard
• 1x Intrepid Hero
• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Legion Vanguard
• 1x Mortician Beetle
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Niblis of the Breath
• 1x Norritt
• 1x Novice Dissector
• 1x Oracle's Attendants
• 1x Pestermite
• 2x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Samite Elder
• 1x Stonybrook Angler
• 1x Stormscape Master
• 1x Temporal Adept
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Tideforce Elemental
• 1x Tolarian Kraken
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands
• 1x Vodalian Illusionist
• 1x Xathrid Demon
• 2x Dark Privilege
• 1x Fanatical Devotion
• 2x Malevolent Awakening
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Thassa's Ire
• 1x Lampad of Death's Vigil
• 1x Stinging Lionfish
• 1x Cerulean Wisps
• 1x Confound
• 1x Crypsis
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Djeru's Resolve
• 1x Dream's Grip
• 1x Energy Arc
• 1x Final Payment
• 1x Infuse
• 1x Launch Party
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Reality Spasm
• 1x Refocus
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Snap
• 1x Toils of Night and Day
• 1x Twitch
• 1x Arcanis the Omnipotent
• 1x Eight-and-a-Half-Tails
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 2x Jalira, Master Polymorphist
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Angelic Purge
• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Fell the Mighty
• 1x Flesh Allergy
• 1x Hidden Strings
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Mind Extraction
• 2x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Retribution of the Meek

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Deck Functions

The eventual deck that will come out of this will use Merieke Ri Berit and other tapping creatures to control the board. The main focus of the deck will be to get a slight engine of cards that can effect the board with activated tap abilities and ways to untap those cards. This engine should be protected and used to gain political leverage as you can have effect on trades in other peoples combat steps. Next up I want to have a few sub themes that utilize the strengths of the deck.

Stealing

There are a fair few cards akin to Merieke that can also steal cards from opponents, usually this is temporary though. These cards are useful to have in the deck too as it can help further control the board by breaking up combos or just snatching nice things so that I can use them and they also combo well with the next sub-theme

Sacrifice

Since we will have a large number of "free" creatures, sacrifice is an interesting mechanic now. If we sacrifice the creature "captured" by Merieke right before untapping her we can get some extra value out of it. Sacrifice also has a second function besides the relatively cheap value, it can also help us to kill creatures that we only control until the end of the turn, as no one wants to get a used creature back now, would they ;-)

Mana Filtering

There are also some cards in the deck that (usually with a tap ability) allow us to generate any colour mana. This is ofcourse useful in allowing us to run more colour dependant cards without having to worry as much about our manabase. The primary reason for these cards is however to be able to activate the abilities of creatures we steal. We wouldn't ordinarily be able to do anything with a creature whose soul purpouse is to have an activated ability that uses say green mana, but if we can get green mana this creature is suddenly a useful steal for us.

Board Control

To keep our delicate engine running like a well oiled machine we will need to be able to control what our opponents do. Counterspells are the first way in which we achieve that. Brine Shaman is very interesting in particular as it has a reoccurring counter effect.

Misc

Researched card types

I have added all the possible "untap" cards in the colour identity

Creatures that are usefull when they tap

Sacrifice outlets for my opponents creatures : https://scryfall.com/search?as=gridℴ=name&page=9&q=%28oracle%3Asacrifice+oracle%3Aa+oracle%3Acreature%29+commander%3AWUB+usd%3C5&unique=cards

Date added	2 years
Last updated	8 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 21 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	75
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C