Death and Rejuvenation

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (31)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nantuko Husk
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x World Breaker
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 10x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (8)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thought Vessel

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Pernicious Deed

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana Vess

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Creature (23)

• 1x Banshee of the Dread Choir
• 1x Blood Bairn
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bloodspore Thrinax
• 1x Champion of Stray Souls
• 1x Defiant Salvager
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Eater of Hope
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Kalitas, Bloodchief of Ghet
• 1x Korozda Guildmage
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Phyrexian Plaguelord
• 1x Scourge of Nel Toth
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Thief of Blood
• 1x Triskelavus
• 1x Vhati il-Dal
• 1x Viridian Zealot

Land (8)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Pendelhaven
• 1x Pine Barrens
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Sanguine Bond
• 1x Tainted Remedy

Instant (5)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Darkness
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x One with Nothing

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Sever the Bloodline

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bonehoard

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Meren based sacrifice deck

3 combos. Combo 1: Mikaeus + Triskelion infinite. Most easily gained by buried alive + victimize if you choose run victimize (T1 1 drop ramp creature, T2 buried alive, T3 victimize and win), or tutor for Defense of the Heart, win the turn after you cast it by pulling up Mikaeus and Triskelion. Can also use fauna shaman/survival of the fittest + elvish piper (if you're running piper) to instantly/cheaply put one on the battlefield from the library at the end of opponents' turn into the other on your turn (works especially well with a couple tap for green ramp creatures and contamination w/reassembling skeleton or meren recursion every turn, if opponent is not playing black). Or just summon both. Etc. This can be interrupted by krosan grip before you remove Trike's counters (you have priority when you get him on the field if it's your turn, so remove 3 immediately to prevent this) and also by a kill spell on Mike while Trike's undying trigger is still on the stack. If they don't know how the stack works very well, they won't know this and will try to kill either one of them, to which you can respond with removing counters and continuing the infinite combo.

Combo 2: the Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer (in grave) + Triskelion (in grave) combo from buried alive or survival of the fittest (grab ooze last) to burn for the CMC of all cards in your library, is a very good route to quickly end the game. Once it's out, they can't interrupt this without split second, since you can respond by adding and removing counters no matter what they do.

Combo 3. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord + Phyrexian Devourer. This requires some knowledge of how the stack works. Exile cards from your library until devourer's sacrifice ability is put on the stack, then, in response to that, continue exiling cards to beef him up more. Still before allowing the sacrifice to resolve, instead sac him to Jarad to burn your opponents for a bunch, similarly to the aforementioned Ooze kill. This gets around player hexproof and grave hate, so you don't have to worry about things like leyline of sanctity and leyline of the void with this combo, unlike the other 2.

Recur creatures to your hand/battlefield w/meren as desired for support. Maybe board shows several possible improvements if you have the money/space for them. It seems to be netting me consistent turn 6-7 wins, if not interrupted by removal, gravehate, counter spells, etc. It has plenty of potential for turn 3 kills with buried alive and reanimate/animate dead, or turn 4 with a turn 2 survival of the fittest + 1 tutor activation for Trike, turn 3: 2 activations for devourer first, ooze last, cast ooze from hand turn 4. Cards that are not focused on getting the combo off quickly (such as Skithiryx) are there as an alternative win con if you can't combo off due to exiling/counter spells. If you want to go all in to the combo only style deck, replace those cards with decent tutors like beseech the queen, insidious dreams (for buried alive + victimize probably), Cruel tutor, etc.

https://deckstats.net/decks/60560/441311-meren-of-clan-nel-toth-competi/en

Date added	7 years
Last updated	7 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	13 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.50
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Human 2/2 G, Snake 1/1 B, Wolf 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Zombie 2/2 B