EDH Meren: Never Gonna Keep Me Down

Commander / EDH Aristocrats BG (Golgari) Reanimator

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Creature (30)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Bane of Progress
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Elvish Visionary
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Farhaven Elf
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Protean Hulk
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Viridian Zealot
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wall of Blossoms
• 1x Wall of Roots
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Instant (4)

• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Krosan Grip

Land (38)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 10x Forest
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Strip Mine
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Kodama's Reach
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

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Maybeboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Woodland Bellower

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Victimize

Artifact (1)

• 1x Panharmonicon

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The main idea is to sacrifice creatures using one of the sac-outlets, or the activated abilities of some creatures, while Meren is on the battlefield to get experience counters. In the early game, you can bring back stuff like Sakura-Tribe Elder to ramp while you build up. Or you can get back Fleshbag Marauder or Fleshbag Marauder #2 repeatedly to make opponents sacrifice their own creatures many times.

Near the end, the goal is to use Grave Titan or Avenger of Zendikar to get tons of creatures, and use Pathbreaker Ibex to pump them all. If that doesn't work, hopefully Rise of the Dark Realms will help you finish the game if you milled yourself enough and/or destroyed enough of your opponents' creatures.

Custom Categories

• Land: All lands.
• Ramp: Non-land cards that either create mana or help cast things faster.
• Draw/Mill: Put more cards into your hand or graveyard.
• Creature Removal: Remove creatures from the battlefield.
• Other Removal: Remove non-creature permanents from the battlefield.
• Tutor: Search for specific cards and put them into your hand or onto the battlefield.
• Retrieval: Get cards back from your graveyard to the battlefield, your hand or your deck.
• Sacrifice Outlet: Permanents that let you sacrifice creatures, so they can be brought back with Meren .
• Swarm: Cards that put more creatures onto the battlefield, usually tokens.

Combos:

Ashnod's Altar + Avenger of Zendikar + Nim Deathmantle

Ashnod's Altar + Grave Titan + Nim Deathmantle

Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle + Wurmcoil Engine

All of these combos are meant to produce infinite mana and infinite creatures. Here's how it works (for those unfamiliar):

Have Ashnod's Altar , Nim Deathmantle , one of Wurmcoil Engine / Grave Titan / Avenger of Zendikar , and at least one other creature on the field. Sacrifice two creatures to Ashnod's Altar , then trigger Nim Deathmantle by sacrificing Wurmcoil Engine / Grave Titan / Avenger of Zendikar (which may have been one of your two sacrifices). Use the mana from Ashnod's Altar to bring back Wurmcoil Engine / Grave Titan / Avenger of Zendikar with Nim Deathmantle . On ETB (or death, for Wurmcoil Engine ), you should get two token creatures (assuming at least two lands when using Avenger of Zendikar ). Then you can sacrifice those creatures and Wurmcoil Engine / Grave Titan / Avenger of Zendikar to repeat the process, gaining two mana each time. You can then use this excess mana to bring back Wurmcoil Engine / Grave Titan / Avenger of Zendikar without sacrificing other creatures, allowing you to get infinite token creatures. Then you can win by getting an attack through with your huge army of creatures. If using Avenger of Zendikar , you'll need to boost your 0/1 tokens with an ability like Avenger of Zendikar 's landfall trigger.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Grave Titan + Nim Deathmantle Ashnod's Altar + Avenger of Zendikar + Nim Deathmantle Ashnod's Altar + Nim Deathmantle + Wurmcoil Engine
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.10
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Experience Token, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Creature-based