Meren cEDH Gravecrawler Combo (Experimental)

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari)

FS4056

Creature (30)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Initiates of the Ebon Hand
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Viscera Seer

Artifact (8)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (31)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Emergence Zone
• 6x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Instant (9)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Lignify
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Innocent Blood
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Tenacious Dead

Artifact (1)

• 1x Altar of Dementia

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Squirrel Nest

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Huge shoutout to roguelikedev and the rest of the Meren EDH Discord for their help in tweaking these lines and combos!!

If you notice any mistakes with any of these combo lines, please let me know!!

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COMBO LINE COMPARISONS

• Standard Hulk: The go-to combo line, requiring no mana, requires no life payment, and requires very few creatures onboard. Primary wincon unless Hulk gets exiled. Requires sac outlet and Hulk on board, but no other mana or creatures required. Does not require any life.
• Instant-Speed / EOT Hulk Line: A more complex line than above and requires more cards, but is capable of winning at instant speed (the most common case of this being reanimation of Protean Hulk off Meren's EOT ability).
• Manaless Razaketh: The most efficient non-Hulk line available in terms of mana and creatures on-the-board. Requires Razaketh, 2 other creatures, and a basic swamp (can be tapped) on the board, but no other mana or creatures. Requires you have at least 15 life.
• Life-Efficient Razaketh: The non-Hulk line which requires the lowest payment of life - you need just 9 life. However, it requires Razaketh, 2 other creatures, a basic swamp (can be tapped), and the production of on the board.
• Manaless, Life-Efficient Razaketh: This line is both manaless and very life-efficient, but requires an additional creature on the battlefield to start with. In total, you need Razaketh, 3 other creatures, and a basic swamp (can be tapped) on the board.

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STANDARD HULK LINE

Requirements:

• Protean Hulk on-the-board
• Sacrifice outlet on-the-board, or access to some other way to kill Hulk
• No other creatures or mana required
• No life loss

Play Line:

1. Sacrifice or kill your own Protean Hulk . Tutor for Body Snatcher , Carrion Feeder , and Initiates of the Ebon Hand
2. Sacrifice Body Snatcher at instant speed while its own ETB trigger is still on the stack. This will add its LTB ability to the stack above the ETB trigger.
3. LTB trigger resolves first - use it to return Protean Hulk to play. Body Snatcher's ETB trigger then happens, but because Body Snatcher is already exiled, you won't have to discard.
4. Sacrifice Hulk to Carrion Feeder. Tutor for Pawn of Ulamog , Blood Artist , and Gravecrawler
5. Sac Gravecrawler to Carrion Feeder producing an Eldrazi spawn token via Pawn of Ulamog .
6. Sac Eldrazi spawn token for . Convert to using Initiates of the Ebon Hand .
7. Use to cast Gravecrawler from the grave.
8. Repeat steps 5-7 as many times as needed to win the game. Each repetition drains an opponent of 2 life and gains us 2 life (Gravecrawler + token deaths).

If Earthcraft is in play, you can skip much of this process. Off the first Hulk, just grab Blood Artist , Carrion Feeder and Gravecrawler immediately. These creatures only total 4 CMC, leaving an extra 2 CMC of space open to find to find the utility creature of your choice (e.g. Sylvan Safekeeper , Gaea's Herald , etc.)

(Note, creatures without haste can immediately untap lands using Earthcraft as the ability is inherent to Earthcraft and not the creature itself - unlike Cryptolith Rite )

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INSTANT-SPEED EOT HULK LINE

Requirements:

• Protean Hulk on-the-board or about to return from graveyard due to Meren trigger
• Sacrifice outlet on-the-board, or access to some other way to kill Hulk at instant speed
• No other creatures or mana required
• 7 life loss
• Both Body Snatcher AND Phyrexian Delver in the library

Play Line:

1. Sacrifice or kill your own Protean Hulk . Tutor for Phyrexian Delver and Carrion Feeder ( Viscera Seer may also be used for this line).
2. Use Phyrexian Delver 's trigger to return Hulk to play. (-7 life)
3. Sacrifice Hulk to Carrion Feeder. Tutor for Body Snatcher and Blood Artist .
4. As Body Snatcher ETB's, sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder to stack the triggers the same as the above example.
5. Return Hulk to play, then sacrifice it to Carrion Feeder again. Tutor for Pawn of Ulamog , Nether Traitor , and Initiates of the Ebon Hand .
6. Sacrifice Nether Traitor to Carrion Feeder , producing an Eldrazi spawn off Pawn of Ulamog.
7. Sac the spawn, filter to with Initiates, and bring back Nether Traitor (whose ability triggered when the Eldrazi spawn died).
8. Repeat until game-win.

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MANALESS RAZAKETH LINE (No Hulk)

Requirements:

• Razaketh, the Foulblooded in play
• 2x other creatures in play
• Basic swamp in play, can be already tapped (OPTIONAL - Can actually be a basic forest instead of swamp, but this costs 2 more life - see comments below)
• 0 other mana
• 20 life (AKA your life total must be 21 or higher)

Play Line:

1. Sac creature #1 to Razaketh, tutor for LED. (0 floating, -2 life)
2. Play and activate LED. (GGG floating, -2 life)
3. Sac creature #2 to Razaketh, tutor for Eternal Witness. (GGG floating, -4 life)
4. Cast Eternal Witness, ETB returns LED to hand. (0 floating, -4 life)
5. Play and activate LED. (BBB floating, -4 life)
6. Sacrifice Eternal Witness, tutor for Reanimate. (BBB floating, -6 life)
7. Cast Reanimate on Eternal Witness, return Reanimate to hand (BB floating, -9 life)
8. Sac Eternal Witness, tutor for Gravecrawler (BB floating, -11 life)
9. Cast Reanimate on Eternal Witness, return LED to hand (B floating, -14 life)
10. Cast Gravecrawler (0 floating, -14 life)
11. Play and activate LED (GGG floating, -14 life)
12. Sacrifice Eternal Witness, tutor for Earthcraft (GGG floating, -16 life)
13. Cast Earthcraft (G floating, -16 life)
14. Tap Gravecrawler to untap swamp using Earthcraft. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -16 life)
15. Sacrifice Gravecrawler, tutor for Carrion Feeder (BG floating, -18 life)
16. Cast Carrion Feeder (G floating, -18 life)
17. Tap Carrion Feeder to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -18 life)
18. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard (G floating, -18 life)
19. Tap Gravecrawler to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -18 life)
20. Sacrifice Gravecrawler, tutor for Blood Artist (BG floating, -20 life)
21. Cast Blood Artist (0 floating, -20 life)
22. Tap Blood Artist to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard. (0 floating, -20 life)
23. Tap Gravecrawler to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B. Sacrifice Gravecrawler to Carrion Feeder. (B floating, -19 life)
24. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard.
25. Repeat 23 + 24 as many times as needed to win game.

This line is still doable with a basic forest but no basic swamp. This detour costs an additional 2 life:

• After Step 14, sacrifice Gravecrawler and use it to tutor Initiates of the Ebon Hand (instead of Carrion Feeder) (BG floating, -12 life)
• Cast Initiates (G floating, -12 life)
• Tap Initiates to untap a basic forest. Tap it for G, and convert to B using Initiates (BG floating, -12 life)
• Cast Gravecrawler from the graveyard. Resume normal line starting at Step 15.

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LIFE-EFFICIENT RAZAKETH LINE (No Hulk)

Requirements:

• Razaketh, the Foulblooded in play
• 2x other creatures in play
• Basic swamp in play, can be already tapped
• mana available from lands or dorks
• 10 life (AKA your life total must be 11 or higher)

Playline:

1. Sac creature #1 to Razaketh, tutor for LED. (0 floating, -2 life)
2. Cast and activate LED (BBB floating, -2 life)
3. Sac creature #2 to Razaketh, tutor for Gravecrawler (BBB floating, -4 life)
4. Cast Gravecrawler (BB floating, -4 life)
5. Sac Gravecrawler, tutor for Carrion Feeder, cast it (B floating, -6 life)
6. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard (0 floating, -6 life)
7. Sac Gravecrawler to tutor for Earthcraft (0 floating, -8 life)
8. Use BG from lands / dorks to cast Earthcraft (0 floating, -8 life)
9. Tap Carrion Feeder to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (B floating, -8 life)
10. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard (0 floating, -8 life)
11. Tap Razaketh and Gravecrawler to generate BB from Earthcraft (BB floating, -8 life)
12. Sac Gravecrawler, tutor for Blood Artist (BB floating, -10 life)
13. Cast Blood Artist (0 floating, -10 life)
14. Tap Blood Artist for B using Earthcraft (B floating, -10 life)
15. Cast Gravecrawler from grave, tap for B, sac to Carrion Feeder (B floating, -10 life)
16. Repeat 15 as many times as needed to win game

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MANALESS, LIFE-EFFICIENT RAZAKETH LINE (No Hulk)

Requirements:

• Razaketh, the Foulblooded in play
• 3x other creatures in play
• Basic swamp in play, can be already tapped
• 0 other mana
• 8 life (AKA your life total must be 9 or higher)

Playline:

1. Sacrifice creature #1 to Razaketh, tutor for LED (0 floating, -2 life)
2. Play and activate LED (GGG floating, -2 life)
3. Sac creature #2, tutor for Earthcraft (GGG floating, -4 life)
4. Cast Earthcraft (G floating, -4 life)
5. Tap Razaketh to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -4 life)
6. Sac creature #3, tutor for Gravecrawler (BG floating, -6 life)
7. Cast Gravecrawler (G floating, -6 life)
8. Tap Gravecrawler to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -6 life)
9. Sac Gravecrawler, tutor for Carrion Feeder (BG floating, -8 life)
10. Cast Carrion Feeder (G floating, -8 life)
11. Tap Carrion Feeder to untap swamp. Tap swamp for B (BG floating, -8 life)
12. Cast Gravecrawler from graveyard (G floating, -8 life)
13. Tap Gravecrawler for B (BG floating, -8 life)
14. Sac Gravecrawler, tutor for Blood Artist (BG floating, -10 life)
15. Cast Blood Artist (0 floating, -10 life)
16. Tap Blood Artist for B (B floating, -10 life)
17. Cast Gravecrawler from yard, tap for B (B floating, -10 life)
18. Sacrifice Gravecrawler to Blood Artist (B floating, -9 life)
19. Repeat 17 and 18 as many times as needed to win game

Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.03
Tokens	Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token
Folders	Commander, Meren Commander