Birthing Meren

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari)

Faraven

Creature (33)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Arborback Stomper
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Dread
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Juzam Djinn
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Thrun, the Last Troll
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient TombGC
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 9x Forest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Strip Mine
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Aluren
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Nature's Chosen
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Survival of the FittestGC
• 1x Sylvan Library

Artifact (6)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox DiamondGC
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Voltaic Key

Commander (1)

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Vampiric TutorGC
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Life's Legacy
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Reanimate

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Garruk, Apex Predator
• 1x Garruk Wildspeaker
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

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Welcome to one of the very few creature based decks I'll make. It uses a very powerful artifact, with a power bouncing CMDR with some other utility to keep things under control.

As the name implies this deck uses the every powerful Birthing Pod in combo with Meren of Clan Nel Toth. As you can imagine its bonkers as an edh deck where things are one of a kinds. How a combo works later in the game goes like this, Birthing Pod anything, but lets say you are trying to grab this bad girl, Sheoldred, Whispering One, because you sacrificed one of your creatures you can A, get an experience counter for Meren of Clan Nel Toth, and because you sacrificed one of your creatures you can use Grim Haruspex to draw you cards (not always the best thing). Now that you have some amount of experience counters, you can return a creature on your end step and because you grabbed Sheoldred, Whispering One you can return more creatures, so its like paying 2 and get something (with the added benefit of enter battlefield effects).

And in the late game use Ghoulcaller Gisa to send things to the graveyard to bounce them and get token swarms.

What to bounce

Acidic Slime

Arborback Stomper

Rune-Scarred Demon

Shriekmaw

Grave Titan

Phyrexian Delver

Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Yavimaya Elder

Things I am going to change soon.

1. I need to be able to fetch artifacts faster, I added some more way to fetch, but more wont hurt.

2. I have a lot of cards that are 6 drop bouncers, I need more 7 drops to add to the field that have more constant effects so the second part of birthing pod doesn't fizzle. They need to have static abilities because i don't want to birthing pod for 8 drops, because i only have one.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	21 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Player Killer, Beast 3/3 B, Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Garruk, Apex Predator, Experience Token, Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Marit Lage, Morph 2/2 C, Saproling 1/1 G, Worm 1/1 BG, Zombie 2/2 B