Who Needs $150+ Decks???

Commander / EDH* BG (Golgari) Budget Combo Midrange Multiplayer Reanimator

KingMathoro

Creature (35)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Blood Pet
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Catacomb Sifter
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Devourer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Skull Prophet
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Thoughtpicker Witch
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (37)

• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Necroblossom Snarl
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Artifact (8)

• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lifecrafter's Bestiary
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit *list*
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Instant (4)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Explosive Vegetation
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x Victimize

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Moldervine Reclamation

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Introduction!

Welcome to a A budget version of Meren for those looking for some graveyard fun but have limited money to do so! This deck uses Meren as well as some other cards to cause some graveyard shenanigans as well as some control against your opponents.

Notable Cards and Combos

Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion. This is the main combo of the deck also known as our main wincon. We will try to get Buried Alive and then focus on getting the Ooze reanimated for the win. To Tutor this out we have some options like Diabolic Tutor, Dark Petition, Mastermind's Acquisition . So we should be able to get to a wincon reliably. However if the above is a no fly zone then we default to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Phyrexian Devourer thus killing the board in one swail foop! THEN if that doesn't work we bring out good ol' Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Now should that fail we turtle up and control the board. We will be using cards like Merciless Executioner, Fleshbag Marauder, Butcher of Malakir. Thankfully with the amount of creatures/tokens we have fodder is readily available.

Strionic Resonator, Becuase abusing Meren's ability more than once is just too good

Eternal Witness, do you like getting tutors and various other cards that aren't creatures back to you hand repeatedly? Yeah, so do I!

Lastly let us look upon the glory that is Living Death because let's be honest, this card is a late game bomb that really shakes up the game!

Final Thoughts

I would add that you not believe TappedOut's price total at the bottom of this deck. I went in to TCG and did some digging and was able to get my total of the deck around the $150 mark fairly easily so I am sure you can as well if not perhaps cheaper. Also I would like to thank you for taking a look at my deck! If you like it please consider hitting the upvote button. If not and you think it is garbage let's have a chat about what you think. I am always willing to hear people out. Thanks again everyone! Cheers!

Note: TappedOut might say this deck is over $150 but this is not the case if you use TCGPlayer. TappedOut bases the price as though the cards were all in NM condition since that is what it defaults to unless specified otherwise. Please think about this before commenting. It gets a little silly having to repeat myself over and over again. Thank you for your time :)

Top Ranked	Achieved #7 position overall 7 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Budget 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Combo 4 years ago
Date added	7 years
Last updated	3 years
Exclude colors	WUR
Splash colors	G
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 35 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
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