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Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck
Meren of Clan Nel Toth · Colorless · 100 cards · 37 lands
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Bracket unknownCommander 1Creatures 40Instants 13Sorceries 6Artifacts 3Lands 37
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Strategy
This deck leverages Meren of Clan Nel Toth's ability to build experience counters whenever your creatures die, then recur creatures from your graveyard each end step. The strategy is a grindy sacrifice engine: cheap creatures die repeatedly, feeding value engines, draining opponents, and returning to the battlefield again and again. Sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Woe Strider convert bodies into value, while death-triggered payoffs like Zulaport Cutthroat and Poison-Tip Archer turn each death into damage. Meren guarantees you never run out of resources.
Early: Prioritize ramp and setup. Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, and Golgari Signet accelerate mana, while Llanowar Elves, Elvish Mystic, and Skull Prophet provide early dorks. Land ramp from Sakura-Tribe Elder, Farhaven Elf, Wood Elves, Cultivate, and Rampant Growth fixes and builds your board. Dark Ritual can power out Meren ahead of curve. Sakura-Tribe Elder is especially strong since sacrificing it grants a land and an early experience counter. Use Skull Prophet, Stitcher's Supplier, Satyr Wayfinder, and Grisly Salvage to fill your graveyard with targets for Meren.
Mid: Establish your sacrifice engine. Deploy a sacrifice outlet like Viscera Seer, Woe Strider, or Umbral Collar Zealot, then loop creatures. Fleshbag Marauder, Merciless Executioner, Plaguecrafter, Demon's Disciple, and Accursed Marauder strip opponents' creatures on entry, and Meren returns them to repeat the effect. Ravenous Chupacabra and Shriekmaw provide targeted removal on a recurring body. Value engines like Morbid Opportunist, Midnight Reaper, and Disciple of Bolas draw cards off deaths and sacrifices. Village Rites, Deadly Dispute, Altar's Reap, and Corrupted Conviction convert dying creatures into cards. Eternal Witness and Honest Rutstein rebuy key spells.
Late: With enough experience counters, Meren returns your most expensive creatures directly to the battlefield each end step. Reanimation spells like Victimize, Buried Alive, Rise of the Witch-king, and Junji, the Midnight Sky's death trigger set up big plays. Massacre Wurm wipes opponents' boards and drains life, and Butcher of Malakir forces repeated sacrifices as your creatures die. Syr Konrad, the Grim punishes every death and graveyard interaction. Use Spore Frog to fog lethal attacks, recurring it with Meren for a repeatable defense.
Win conditions: The primary win is incremental drain through aristocrat payoffs. Zulaport Cutthroat drains each opponent and gains you life on every creature death, and Poison-Tip Archer drains each opponent whenever another creature dies. Syr Konrad, the Grim burns opponents on deaths, graveyard mills, and creatures leaving your graveyard. Gray Merchant of Asphodel provides a large one-shot drain based on black devotion. Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord can sacrifice a big creature to drain life, or grow enormous off your graveyard for combat damage. Massacre Wurm punishes wide boards with life loss.
- Viscera Seer - Free sacrifice outlet to trigger death effects and feed Meren experience counters
- Woe Strider - Repeatable sacrifice outlet with scry that recurs itself via escape from the graveyard
- Zulaport Cutthroat - Aristocrat payoff draining opponents and gaining life on every creature death
- Poison-Tip Archer - Drains each opponent whenever another creature dies, plus deathtouch and reach defense
- Syr Konrad, the Grim - Damage payoff triggering on deaths, mills, and creatures leaving your graveyard
- Fleshbag Marauder - Recurring edict effect forcing opponents to sacrifice creatures each time it re-enters
- Massacre Wurm - Board wipe against opponents with additional life loss when their creatures die
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel - Big life-drain finisher scaling with black devotion
- Sakura-Tribe Elder - Ramps a land and grants an early experience counter when sacrificed
- Eternal Witness - Recurs any card from your graveyard, reusable with Meren
- Spore Frog - Recurring fog to prevent all combat damage, protecting you repeatedly via Meren
~$32.80
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Commander (1)
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman
Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
Creatures (40)
Skull Prophet
Creature — Human Druid
$0.73
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
{T}: Mill two cards. (Put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Sakura-Tribe Elder
Creature — Snake Shaman
$0.32
Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Farhaven Elf
Creature — Elf Druid
$0.16
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Wood Elves
Creature — Elf Scout
$0.19
When this creature enters, search your library for a Forest card, put that card onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.29
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Viridian Emissary
Creature — Phyrexian Elf Scout
$0.15
When this creature dies, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Spore Frog
Creature — Frog
$0.38
Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.
Viscera Seer
Creature — Vampire Wizard
$0.43
Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Woe Strider
Creature — Horror
$0.3
When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Umbral Collar Zealot
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.32
Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Fleshbag Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.19
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Merciless Executioner
Creature — Orc Warrior
$0.36
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Plaguecrafter
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.38
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. Each player who can't discards a card.
Demon's Disciple
Creature — Human Cleric
$0.29
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice.
Accursed Marauder
Creature — Zombie Warrior
$0.37
When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.
Ravenous Chupacabra
Creature — Beast Horror
$0.41
When this creature enters, destroy target creature an opponent controls.
Shriekmaw
Creature — Elemental
$0.25
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
When this creature enters, destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature.
Evoke {1}{B} (You may cast this spell for its evoke cost. If you do, it's sacrificed when it enters.)
Eternal Witness
Creature — Human Shaman
$0.69
When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Disciple of Bolas
Creature — Human Wizard
$0.35
When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
Morbid Opportunist
Creature — Human Rogue
$0.19
Whenever one or more other creatures die, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.
Midnight Reaper
Creature — Zombie Knight
$0.19
Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, this creature deals 1 damage to you and you draw a card.
Zulaport Cutthroat
Creature — Human Rogue Ally
$1.04
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Poison-Tip Archer
Creature — Elf Archer
$0.48
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Legendary Creature — Human Knight
$0.94
Whenever another creature dies, or a creature card is put into a graveyard from anywhere other than the battlefield, or a creature card leaves your graveyard, Syr Konrad deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{1}{B}: Each player mills a card. (They each put the top card of their library into their graveyard.)
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
$0.89
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf
$1.82
Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Butcher of Malakir
Creature — Vampire Warrior
$0.34
Flying
Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Massacre Wurm
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$1.68
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Reclamation Sage
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.18
When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Acidic Slime
Creature — Ooze
$0.11
Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)
When this creature enters, destroy target artifact, enchantment, or land.
Cankerbloom
Creature — Phyrexian Fungus
$0.32
{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
Caustic Caterpillar
Creature — Insect
$0.33
{1}{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Destroy target artifact or enchantment.
Haywire Mite
Artifact Creature — Insect
$0.42
When this creature dies, you gain 2 life.
{G}, Sacrifice this creature: Exile target noncreature artifact or noncreature enchantment.
Stitcher's Supplier
Creature — Zombie
$0.19
When this creature enters or dies, mill three cards. (Put the top three cards of your library into your graveyard.)
Satyr Wayfinder
Creature — Satyr
$0.1
When this creature enters, reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Junji, the Midnight Sky
Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit
$0.41
Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
• Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
• Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.
Honest Rutstein
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock
$0.37
When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
Killmonger, Scourge of Wakanda
Legendary Creature — Human Mercenary Villain
$0.18
When Killmonger enters, you may sacrifice another creature. When you do, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
As long as there are two or more creature cards in your graveyard, Killmonger gets +2/+1.
Instants (13)
Grisly Salvage
Instant
$0.12
Reveal the top five cards of your library. You may put a creature or land card from among them into your hand. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Village Rites
Instant
$0.3
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Deadly Dispute
Instant
$0.32
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature.
Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Altar's Reap
Instant
$0.16
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Corrupted Conviction
Instant
$0.36
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Assassin's Trophy
Instant
$0.75
Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Putrefy
Instant
$0.15
Destroy target artifact or creature. It can't be regenerated.
Abrupt Decay
Instant
$0.95
This spell can't be countered.
Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 3 or less.
Beast Within
Instant
$0.58
Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.
Tragic Slip
Instant
$0.16
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.
Golgari Charm
Instant
$0.75
Choose one —
• All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn.
• Destroy target enchantment.
• Regenerate each creature you control.
Witherbloom Charm
Instant
$0.29
Choose one —
• You may sacrifice a permanent. If you do, draw two cards.
• You gain 5 life.
• Destroy target nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less.
Sorceries (6)
Cultivate
Sorcery
$0.35
Search your library for up to two basic land cards, reveal those cards, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle.
Rampant Growth
Sorcery
$0.17
Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Buried Alive
Sorcery
$1.06
Search your library for up to three creature cards, put them into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Victimize
Sorcery
$0.45
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Rise of the Witch-king
Sorcery
$0.92
Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you sacrificed a creature this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Culling Ritual
Sorcery
$0.48
Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value 2 or less. Add {B} or {G} for each permanent destroyed this way.
Artifacts (3)
Arcane Signet
Artifact
$0.4
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Lands (37)
Command Tower
Land
$0.27
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Barren Moor
Land
$0.16
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cycling {B} ({B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Tranquil Thicket
Land
$0.09
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {G}.
Cycling {G} ({G}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.1
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Woodland Cemetery
Land
$0.65
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
Llanowar Wastes
Land
$0.55
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Jungle Hollow
Land
$0.13
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.
{T}: Add {B} or {G}.
Grim Backwoods
Land
$0.21
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.
Khalni Garden
Land
$0.83
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token.
{T}: Add {G}.
Golgari Rot Farm
Land
$0.28
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {B}{G}.
Basic lands: 13 Swamp 12 Forest
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