Merendipitous Victory

Commander / EDH* Attrition BG (Golgari) Group Slug Infinite Combo Primer Reanimator Value Engine

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Land (34)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 8x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 1x Snow-Covered Forest
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Draw (8)

• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Damage (6)

• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Tokens (3)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Scute Swarm

Wipe (3)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Sac (14)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x High Market
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Graveyard (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Persist
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Victimize

STR (7)

• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Druid of Purification
• 1x Foundation Breaker
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Utility (6)

• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Commander (1)

Mana/Cost Reduction (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Springbloom Druid
• 1x The Great Henge
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Yavimaya Granger

Tutor (8)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fiend Artisan
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Unmarked Grave

Wincon (6)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Scute Swarm
• 1x Triskelion

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Maybeboard

Mana/Cost Reduction (21)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Kodama of the East Tree
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Viridian Emissary
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Graveyard (19)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Deadly Brew
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator

Proliferate (6)

• 1x Evolution Sage
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Pollenbright Druid
• 1x Smell Fear
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Urban Daggertooth

Damage (4)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Wipe (2)

• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Golgari Charm

Land (1)

• 1x Cabal Coffers

STR (21)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Infernal Grasp
• 1x Kenrith's Transformation
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Return to Nature
• 1x Smell Fear
• 1x Terastodon
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Draw (17)

• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Lolth, Spider Queen
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation
• 1x Morbid Opportunist
• 1x Mulch
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Yavimaya Elder

Utility (14)

• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Golgari Charm
• 1x Grist, the Hunger Tide
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Ichor Rats
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Old Stickfingers
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Rhonas's Monument
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Veil of Summer

Sac (21)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Deadly Brew
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Plaguemaw Beast
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Primal Growth
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Tend the Pests
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Viscera Seer

Tokens (17)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Desecrated Tomb
• 1x Garruk, Cursed Huntsman
• 1x Golgari Germination
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hornet Queen
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Lolth, Spider Queen
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Rampaging Baloths
• 1x Tend the Pests
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator

Tutor (12)

• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Fierce Empath
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Mausoleum Secrets
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

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Outvalue your opponents or combo to victory!

This is my new favorite deck and an archetype I've never tried before. It's had some really good success, and you can change your game plans making this deck suitable for mid or high power play.

The strengths of this deck are both its versatility and inevitability. Lots of tutors means you can grab whatever the situation calls for, and if one wincon is prevented you can switch to another. This deck is also very inevitable- if you have games that stall out for 20 turns, this deck will probably win them. Meren uses experience counters meaning that every time she is played, she'll be the same as what she was. You can keep recurring your wincons from the graveyard until the game ends.

The Early Game:

Ramp! Springbloom Druid, Farhaven Elf, Wood Elves, Yavimaya Granger, and especially Sakura-Tribe Elder get us to where we need to be. Farhaven elf is the most mediocre of these. Springbloom druid makes us sac a land, but we do get two landfall triggers (for our avenger or scute swarm), and we get to thin our deck a bit more. Yavimaya granger is like Farhaven elf, but sacs itself if you have no outlet for it, giving us an experience counter. Wood elves only lets you get forests, but puts it in untapped which can be big. Steve is one of the greatest cards in the deck, coming in at only 2 mana, getting us a land, and being able to sacrifice itself. I find myself tutoring for him early game because he can quickly get us to 7 experience counters and ramp us heavily.

Mid Game:

Here is where we want to keep control of the board while we slowly accrue value. We have 3 fleshbag effects: Demon's Disciple, Fleshbag Marauder, and Plaguecrafter, as well as Grave Pact to double their effectiveness. Shriekmaw is also single target removal for creatures.

For artifacts and enchantments, we have Reclamation Sage, Foundation Breaker, and Druid of Purification which can keep the board clean.

Note that this deck does lack instant/sorcery based removal, so if your pod has a lot of creature hate, i'd recommend replacing some of these with that.

Ending The Game:

We've accrued a lot of value, but we need to close the game out. Here's how I've won so far, but i'm sure there are situations where you can win without using any of these!

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed and Triskelion: The combo. These go infinite with each other. If I'm playing high power or the game is just taking too long, this is what I go for. They're easy to tutor for and reanimate.

(If someone makes you play it out, first use one counter from trisk to damage a player, then use two on itself to kill itself. It'll come back with 4 counters. Use two to damage a player, two to kill itself. Repeat until you win).

Avenger of Zendikar: Good ol' fashioned combat wins.

Scute Swarm and a Zulaport effect: get 32 of them, swing the 16 without sickness, sac the rest to kill the table.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Kokusho, the Evening Star: Recur these a lot to drain the table

Eternal Witness, Malakir Rebirth  , Phyrexian Altar, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance: I've never gotten this one to work before, mostly because it requires a lot of cards most of which you cannot tutor for. But I don't think anyone would be mad if you pulled this off. You can eliminate the need for 2 zulaport effects and use meathook if you replace malakir rebirth for a numerous amount of cards that do the same thing without making you pay life. I have it in the deck because its nice to have an emergency land on standby.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.12
Tokens	Copy Clone, Experience Token, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Insect 1/1 G, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Zombie 2/2 B