nO fLaSh NeEdeD - Meren Hulk [Budget-ish cEDH]

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Budget Combo Competitive Infinite Combo Reanimator Value Engine

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Combo (8)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Disciple of the Vault
• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Viscera Seer

Dorks (9)

• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Bloom Tender
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sylvan Caryatid

Draw (6)

• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Oakhame Adversary
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood

Graveyard Matters (3)

• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Entomb

Interaction (13)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Duress
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Languish
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Veil of Summer

Lands (32)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crystal Vein
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 9x Forest
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Protection (8)

• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Defense Grid
• 1x Destiny Spinner
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Prowling Serpopard
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Veil of Summer

Ramp (7)

• 1x Farseek
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Wild Growth

Reanimate & Recursion (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate

Rituals (3)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Ritual

Sac Outlets (8)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Viscera Seer

Stax (2)

• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Manglehorn

Tutors (7)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Plunge into Darkness
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

Value (2)

• 1x Savage Summoning
• 1x Spore Frog

Commander (1)

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Combo (3)

• 1x Argothian Elder
• 1x Earthcraft
• 1x Maze of Ith

Lands (3)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

Protection (2)

• 1x City of Solitude
• 1x Dosan the Falling Leaf

Reanimate & Recursion (1)

• 1x Riftsweeper

Tutors (4)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Liliana Vess

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Golgari Hulk-Pile incoming

My try to build a cEDH archetype in a golgari- and budget-version. Turn-1-win absolut possible, a win on Turn 2 or 3 can be kind of common.

Missing Earthcraft yet of course - coming soon!

Updates:

out: Greater Good, Mindslicer, Eldritch Evolution, Blighted Woodland, Evolving Wilds, Terramorphic Expanse & Squirrel Nest

2021: Diabolic Tutor, Swamp, Liliana Vess, Myriad Landscape

in: Deathrite Shaman, Savage Summoning, Diabolic Tutor, Bloom Tender, Prowling Serpopard, Destiny Spinner & Demonic Tutor

2021: Birthing Pod, Undergrowth Stadium, Grim Tutor, Fabled Passage

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The Combos

First, this deck is meant to be played very proactive, aggressive and straight forward. Due to a very greedy manabase, compared with manadorks, very little dead cards and big redundance, you can normally achieve your goals pretty fast.

Nevertheless, if you draw very unlucky or keep a greedy hand without mulligan, you will enjoy playing magic with your friends too ;) this deck play nicely in mid-game, late-game against very aggressive or controlly decks can be hard, tho the commander herself and various tutor/Razaketh, the Foulblooded-lines are able to grind out the late-game from time to time. Meren of Clan Nel Toth is a cool commander that gives big synergies and is fun to play because she generates her own and actually strong way of card-advantage.

1) The main goal is to get a Hulk-Pile with an instant-win infinite combo. At the point we're able to fetch our creatures due to Protean Hulks death trigger, we go for Melira, Sylvok Outcast plus Lesser Masticore plus Disciple of the Vault and (though we need only one sac-outlet, can be anything) the two one-drop outlets Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder.

With this creatures we established a combo that can sac the Masticore infinite times, which lets the Disciple drain our opponents infinite times.

2) The second combo, as an alternative win-con in this list if you want so, is the classic Earthcraft plus Squirrel Nest for infinite creature tokens for a single-swing-win in our next turn.

Alternatively and more budget-friendly is the Squirrel Nest plus Argothian Elder and Maze of Ith combo!

[i really don't want to include one of those token-combos atm, mainly because of the price for the expensive one and the missing slots for the budget-variant - i just mention it here because initially i wanted to include this as a backup-plan for a more competetive thought, but i want to play this deck here and there in our casual rounds so is don't want another cEDH combo]

How to: Early-Turn-win

Rare Turn-1-win: You need Swamp or Forest, Lotus Petal, Culling the Weak, Entomb, Reanimate a one-drop sac outlet with either Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder and any kind of another one-drop creature.

You play a land and the Lotus Petal, then Culling the Weak. With the one remaining mana you play the one-drop, let's say Birds of Paradise. Sac the one-drop to Culling the Weak for . You now can play the Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder, play Entomb and fetch Protean Hulk into your yard, play Reanimate on the Hulk and sac him for his death trigger. You get your Hulk-pile for the combo and have the Turn-1-win on the board.

Turn-2 and Turn-3-wins: can be achieved pretty frequently due to the redundancy of the deck and the possibility for explosive reanimations in the early game.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #22 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #12 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 33 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.22
Tokens	Experience Token
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