Meren's Graveyard Bash

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Competitive Dredge Primer Sacrifice

KingPhosphar13

Creature (42)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Deathcap Cultivator *f-pre*
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Doom Whisperer
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Paradise Druid
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Winding Constrictor
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (33)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl *f-pre*
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Slippery Karst
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (4)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Krosan Grip

Commander (1)

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Maelstrom Pulse
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize

Artifact (6)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Resilience

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Wild Growth

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Enchantment (1)

• 1x Oversold Cemetery

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This Meren deck is designed in order to be competitive within my playgroup and partly outside of it as well. The main goal is to be competitive but not exactly CEDH levels of control. Currently, it is built completely from cards within my collection. It contains the typical cards you would find within any Meren deck but budget is a mild factor (this is why I don't have a Cabal Coffers in the deck) and so the mana base is a bit weak and there are strictly better versions of cards this deck has that aren't in it.

This deck's main goal is to just out value your opponent's as the game goes on and just kill them with reanimation. One way to win is just dredging your entire deck into your graveyard with cards like Doom Whisperer or Dakmor Salvage and then just cast Living Death , getting almost your entire creature base onto the field.

Another win-con is Golgari Thug + Grim Haruspex + Kokusho, the Evening Star and any sacrifice outlet. The example I'll give is having Ashnods alter as the sac outlet. You already have Ashnods alter and Grim Haruspex on the field, and play Kokusho, the Evening Star . Then you sacrifice Kokusho to the alter in order to get two colorless, 5 life-drain to each opponent, and draw a card. You can either draw a card from this or dredge out one of your cards from this trigger. Then with that two colorless and 1 black mana from any source of your choice, you cast Golgari Thug . Instantly sacrifice the thug for two mana and it's death trigger targeting Kokusho. From the Haruspex trigger you'll redraw Kokusho, and rinse and repeat until you're either out of mana or your opponents die. It's not an infinite combo, but it's still powerful while being pretty interruptable and helps avoid the type of feeling at the board when Stax decks are playing. Or if you want, you can just destroy everyone's lands and drain them to death with Ashnod's Altar + Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Woodfall Primus or any other sacrifice outlet. You get infinite death triggers and noncraeture removal.

This deck will be updated as I get new cards and upgrade it as time goes by. With that, any recommendations for additions and cards to cut would be greatly appreciated.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Melira, Sylvok Outcast + Woodfall Primus Golgari Thug + Grim Haruspex + Kokusho, the Evening Star
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	7 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 26 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B