Meren Reanimator

Commander / EDH*

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Creature (30)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Faerie Macabre
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Necrotic Ooze
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rot Hulk
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yisan, the Wanderer Bard

Artifact (6)

• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lion's Eye Diamond
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Sol Ring

Land (32)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 5x Forest
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Strip Mine
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Regrowth
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Chains of Mephistopheles
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Nether Void
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library

Instant (10)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor

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Buried Alive + Razaketh Combo

Requirements: Buried Alive + Reanimate. 27+ life. 2+ Opponents. Note that you can skip multiple steps in this combo depending on open mana and board state (notably to Entomb + Reanimate if you already have 2+ creatures).

1. Cast Buried Alive, putting Razaketh, Rot Hulk, and Phyrexian Delver in the graveyard.
2. Cast Reanimate, returning Rot Hulk on the battlefield. Lose 7 life.
3. Reanimate Phyrexian Delver with the Rot Hulk trigger.
4. Reanimate Razaketh with the Phyrexian Delver trigger. Lose 8 life.
5. Sacrifice Rot Hulk to Razaketh to find Forest. Lose 2 life.
6. Sacrifice Phyrexian Delver to Razaketh to find Life/Death. Lose 2 life.
7. Play the Forest and cast Life to turn your lands to creatures.
8. Sacrifice a land to Razaketh to find Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Lose 2 life.
9. Sacrifice a land to Razaketh to find Lion's Eye Diamond. Lose 2 life.
10. Cast and sacrifice Lion's Eye Diamond for BBB. Gray Merchant of Asphodel is discarded.
11. Sacrifice a land to Razaketh to find Animate Dead. Lose 2 life
12. Cast Animate Dead off the LED mana to returning Rot Hulk to the battlefield.
13. Rot Hulk trigger targets Phyrexian Delver and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Hold priority and sacrifice Rot Hulk to Razaketh before the trigger resolves (tutor for anything). Lose 2 life.
14. Gray Merchant trigger drains 7 life from each opponent, netting you 14 life.
15. Phyrexian Delver trigger targets Rot Hulk. Hold priority and sacrifice Phyrexian Delver to Razaketh before the trigger resolves (tutor for anything). Lose 9 life.
16. Loop steps 13-15. Each cycle drains your opponent's for 7 life while netting you 3 life.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.32
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C