Meren Stax/Combo Budget

Commander / EDH

chawkins

CardAdvantage (3)

• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Skullclamp

Discard (3)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Mind Slash
• 1x Mindslicer

Fodder (2)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x From Beyond

Fog (1)

• 1x Spore Frog

Graveyard (4)

• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Glissa, the Traitor *oversized*
• 1x Victimize

Land (31)

• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 10x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vivid Grove
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Ramp (12)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wood Elves

Removal (10)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Woodfall Primus

SacOutlet (5)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x High Market

Stax (12)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Magus of the Abyss
• 1x Meekstone
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Pox
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Tangle Wire
• 1x Winter Orb

Tutor (9)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Utility (1)

• 1x Lightning Greaves

WinCon (6)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Triskelion

Commander (1)

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Other (9)

• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Death Cloud
• 1x Infernal Darkness
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Lord of Extinction
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Just the current list I am working on. It is still in the budget stages as I am lacking some key stax cards and tutors. The main goal of this deck is to stall out your opponent with stax cards while using self sacrificing creatures to gain advantage and experience counters as well as mana dorks to ramp and keep pressure and eventually combo out with the necrotic ooze + triskelion + phyrexian devourer combo. Kokusho or the gray merchant are there as alternate win cons if the combo fails to go off. Any help is appreciated!

Date added	9 years
Last updated	9 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.13
Tokens	Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token