Meren, No Combo

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Multiplayer Reanimator

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Land (31)

• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 5x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Recursion (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Victimize

Advantage (5)

• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library

Tokens (3)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Grave Titan

Removal (11)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Woodfall Primus

Ramp (10)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Control (6)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Spore Frog

Util (5)

• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Commander (1)

Tutor (11)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Traverse the Ulvenwald
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Finisher (6)

• 1x Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

SacOutlet (4)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x High Market
• 1x Viscera Seer

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Sideboard

Other (6)

• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Viridian Zealot

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Maybeboard

Recursion (4)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Ramunap Excavator

Advantage (1)

• 1x Smothering Abomination

Control (1)

• 1x Butcher of Malakir

ETB (1)

• 1x Panharmonicon

Tokens (1)

• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa

Removal (3)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Terastodon

Land (2)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Finisher (1)

• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest

SacOutlet (3)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Tutor (2)

• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

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Based on Commander 2015's Meren of Clan Nel Toth. Just another meren deck, nothing new here. Just want to save my decklist.

This deck has been made to be fun, to control the board until being able to cheat the mana cost of big creatures. The deck does not depend on its commander too much, I won a lot of games without casting Meren. There are two ways to win with it : aggro or recursion. It is pretty strong for casual play, it is not made to be as cutthroat as possible (to be more competitive, play combos, focus on recursion, smooth your mana curve and reduce the average CMC).

My group banned sol ring and infinite combos that can end the game (if that's not the case, look at the end of the description).

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Recommandations:

• always use Blade of Selves during multiplayer games

• Bane of Progress for zur, daxos, breya etc (enchant & artifacts)

• Heroic Intervention against multiples board wipes (usually, sac everything when someone use a boardwipe like Wrath of God (or especially exile boardwipe Merciless Eviction) but with Crux of Fate or Kindred Dominance, you want to maintain blockers on the field)

• Mindslicer & Prowling Serpopard are especially good against blue control decks

• Vampire Hexmage must be in the deck when playing against counter based deck (atraxa).

• Cabal Coffers is well known to be good with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, then Expedition Map or Crop Rotation are good too to not waste other tutors. (I only play cabal in mono black or dual colored deck without ramp)

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Some interesting moves:

Blade of Selves + any etb card (Rune-Scarred Demon, Woodfall Primus, Fleshbag Marauder, Disciple of Bolas, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, etc)

Blade of Selves + Kokusho, the Evening Star + sac outlet

Hermit Druid + Living Death (exile opponent graveyard first with Bojuka Bog if needed)

Avenger of Zendikar + Pathbreaker Ibex/Craterhoof Behemoth

Life from the Loam + Strip Mine

Green Sun's Zenith + Dryad Arbor (first turn)

Pathbreaker Ibex/Craterhoof Behemoth + Ghoulcaller Gisa

turn 1: Entomb + turn 2 : Reanimate/Animate Dead

Combo: persist card (like Woodfall Primus/Puppeteer Clique) + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + sac outlet (note that using Woodfall Primus to destroy all the lands of your opponents is close to an infinite combo that can end the game so I don't do it anymore (it was not really fun)).

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Not owned (else it would be included) : Phyrexian Tower, Bayou, Survival of the Fittest, Diabolic Intent, Verdant Catacombs, Vampiric Tutor, Oracle of Mul Daya, Mana Crypt, Phyrexian Altar

Contamination & Winter Orb are VERY powerful when playing against non-black deck or when the graveyard is filled, but those cards can ruin the fun for your opponent(s).

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If combos are allowed, there are a lot of easy ones, here some examples :

• Triskelion (with Mikaeus, the Unhallowed) = win

• Nim Deathmantle (with Grave Titan & Ashnod's Altar) = infinite tokens & mana

infinite tokens :

• sac them with any sac outlet (ex : Viscera Seer...) and with Zulaport Cutthroat/Blood Artist) on the field

• sac them with Altar of Dementia to mill opponents (remember that does not work with Avenger of Zendikar tokens as long as their power is 0 (obviously))

• sac them with Carrion Feeder to make it 1000000/1000000 then attack (or sac it with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, but well, it's unlikely to happen)

infinite mana : use Exsanguinate or Torment of Hailfire

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If you have any suggestions, feel free to comment.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 5 Rares 22 - 1 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.42
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Plant 0/1 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	commander, DECK EDH