Merieke & Friends

Commander / EDH WUB (Esper)

MULRAH

Lands (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 11x Island
• 1x Mirrorpool
• 1x Morphic Pool
• 1x Nimbus Maze
• 9x Plains
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sea of Clouds
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Vesuva

Flicker Effects (8)

• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Charming Prince
• 1x Ghostway
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Venser, the Sojourner
• 1x Deadeye Navigator

Ramp (8)

• 1x Sapphire Medallion
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Basalt Monolith
• 1x Oketra's Monument
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Palinchron

Card Draw (8)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Fblthp, the Lost
• 1x Council of Advisors
• 1x Demonic Pact
• 1x Ephara, God of the Polis
• 1x Karmic Guide
• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Mind's Dilation

Clone Tokens (8)

• 1x Dance of Many
• 1x Cackling Counterpart
• 1x Quasiduplicate
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Tempt with Reflections
• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Clone Legion

Fun (8)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Cosmic Intervention
• 1x Felidar Guardian
• 1x Mirror Gallery
• 1x Primordial Mist
• 1x Vela the Night-Clad
• 1x Magister Sphinx

Commanders & Pet Cards (7)

• 1x Cunning Nightbonder
• 1x Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1x Evil Twin
• 1x Gigantoplasm
• 1x Halfdane
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Chromium, the Mutable

Commander (1)

Cloning (ETB) (8)

• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Mirrormade
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
• 1x Sakashima the Impostor
• 1x Sakashima's Student
• 1x Vesuvan Doppelganger
• 1x Sakashima's Protege

Removal (8)

• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Gilded Drake
• 1x Political Trickery
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Treachery
• 1x Cultural Exchange
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Expropriate

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Maybeboard

Instant Stealing/Cloning (8)

• 1x Narset's Reversal
• 1x Debt of Loyalty
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Sudden Substitution
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Aethersnatch
• 1x Spelljack
• 1x Commandeer

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This deck is all about cloning or stealing your opponents' best stuff and using it against them. Flicker effects amplify this strategy by allowing your clones to disappear and return as an even better item, and the deck also has some minor flicker combos that can win the game on their own.

Commander selection depends on the power level. Though the deck is not optimized for her, Aminatou, the Fateshifter is the most powerful option, being a combo piece in her own right. Merieke Ri Berit is the default option, being fairly high powered but a little obnoxious. Chromium, the Mutable or Halfdane can stand in at casual tables, as they provide the right color identity while being vaguely related to the theme.

This deck was the most interesting and fun of my "adaptive cycle" of decks and, unlike the others, did not get hated out off the table! The combos are complicated and inefficient, and you're not stealing stuff your opponents were hoping to play the way Etali does--even though stealing or cloning stuff they had to pay for is considerably more effective! The deck simply scales to the threat level of the table and provides a different experience every time.

(The deck is currently in "nice" mode, with instant-speed stealing effects in the maybeboard. If you want to make this deck a little more ruthless, swap those in, probably for the "Clone Tokens" module.)

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 46 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.03
Tokens	Copy Clone, Emblem Venser, the Sojourner, Foretell, Manifest 2/2 C, Warrior 1/1 W w/ Vigilance
Folders	Retired - Commander "Adaptive" Cycle (High-Power), Commander - Favorite Decks