Herbert West, Reanimator of Clan Nel Toth

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari) Discard Dredge Reanimator

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Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 3x Forest
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mountain Valley
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rocky Tar Pit
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Creature (29)

• 1x Archfiend of Depravity
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Doomed Necromancer
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Grim Flayer
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Indulgent Tormentor *f-pre*
• 1x Liliana, Heretical Healer  ^Flip
• 1x Lotleth Troll
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Putrid Imp
• 1x Ramunap Excavator *f-pre*
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Scavenging Ooze
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One *f-pre*
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Symbiotic Wurm
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Winding Constrictor

Instant (7)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Grisly Salvage
• 1x Putrefy
• 1x Smother
• 1x Snuff Out

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Skyshroud Claim
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Unearth
• 1x Victimize

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Gilded Lotus
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mana Vault
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Growing Rites of Itlimoc  ^Flip
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Tortured Existence

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Creature (53)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blisterpod
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Bloodsoaked Champion
• 1x Bog Witch
• 1x Bontu the Glorified
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dreg Mangler
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Piper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1x Grave-Shell Scarab
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Hermit Druid
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Magus of the Will
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mournwillow
• 1x Nekrataal
• 1x Netherborn Phalanx
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Phyrexian Dreadnought
• 1x Phyrexian Obliterator
• 1x Phyrexian Revoker
• 1x Putrid Leech
• 1x Rakshasa Deathdealer
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Shambling Shell
• 1x Skirsdag High Priest
• 1x Stinkweed Imp
• 1x Stronghold Assassin
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Vindictive Lich
• 1x Visara the Dreadful
• 1x Waning Wurm
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Planeswalker (7)

• 1x Garruk, Caller of Beasts
• 1x Garruk Relentless  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Liliana of the Veil
• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Ob Nixilis Reignited
• 1x Vraska the Unseen

Sorcery (42)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Bontu's Last Reckoning
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Cabal Therapy
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Dimir Machinations
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Final Parting
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Languish
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Living End
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x Overwhelming Forces
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Rain of Daggers
• 1x Rhystic Tutor
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x See the Unwritten
• 1x Seeds of Innocence
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Sylvan Tutor
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Tooth and Nail
• 1x Vigor Mortis
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise
• 1x Yawgmoth's Will
• 1x Zombify

Instant (19)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Burnt Offering
• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Chord of Calling
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Insidious Dreams
• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Shred Memory
• 1x Songs of the Damned
• 1x Tainted Pact
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Ultimate Price
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Victim of Night
• 1x Worldly Tutor

Enchantment (24)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Burgeoning
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Defense of the Heart
• 1x Diabolic Servitude
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Exploration
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Greed
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth
• 1x Rancor
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Wild Growth

Artifact (23)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Batterskull
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Emerald Medallion
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Golgari Cluestone
• 1x Grafted Wargear
• 1x Grim Monolith
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Moss Diamond
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sword of Body and Mind
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Umezawa's Jitte
• 1x Worn Powerstone

Land (9)

• 1x Bad River
• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blighted Woodland
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold

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The way that this deck is meant to function is primarily focused on getting useful effects through the playing, and sacrificing of efficient creature-based actions early on (things like Solemn Simulacrum , Caustic Caterpillar , Sakura-Tribe Elder , Grim Haruspex , and Disciple of Bolas ) while getting the benefit of adding experience counters as we make use of the lives of those value creatures. All the while, we are putting giant game-ender threats in the bin, through discard outlets like Sadistic Hypnotist , Putrid Imp , and Lotleth Troll , and through graveyard-tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb . Once we have enough experience counters, or enough reanimation spells to put our army on board, we start the process of raising our dead monsters!

- Grave Titan gives us oodles of value, generating zombies that can be sacrificed for further experience counters, and assorted... value, while being a big beater in his own right. Symbiotic Wurm similarly gives us a veritable army of insects every time he dies.

- Massacre Wurm , while on the subject of Wurms, absolutely devastates the enemy board states when he pops up the say "HEY GUYS!" (look at that face!).

- Rune-Scarred Demon , Sidisi, Undead Vizier and Razaketh, the Foulblooded all act as tutors to find the exact threat we need, if we haven't managed to get it into the bin yet.

- Avatar of Woe is a multi-purpose threat, machine gunning enemy creatures, and just being an all-around unstoppable force for evil!

We make use of, in my opinion, all of the best reanimation spells: Necromancy , Reanimate , Living Death , Animate Dead , and many more. Special consideration is given to Unearth for being specifically aimed at our early game value creatures, allowing us to get the cycle of value rolling.

The deck contains a handful of other tutors that are not creature based, and while they aren't all the best, they are some of my personal favorites that don't see as much love in EDH in general. Diabolic Intent is basically designed for this deck, being fueled by the sacrifice of one of our creatures (triggering on-death effects!).

Lastly, I will address the mana base. A lot of EDH players don't play nearly enough fetches in my opinion. So long as the rules about color-identity stay as they are now, we are able to play off-color fetches that only search for one of our colors (even if the other color it finds is outside of our color identity, in this case like Polluted Delta which only fetches black for us, but can fetch a dual-land with basic types). In this deck we run 5 good fetches (the "fast" fetches), and several of the "slow" fetches from Mirage, despite only being a 2 color deck. This level of fixing means that we never get screwed out of either of our colors. We also run the Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth combo to generate ridiculous amounts of black mana. Phyrexian Tower serves as a way to turn our value death-trigger creatures into mana to cast more of them. Of course we also run most all of the Black/Green dual lands that can come into play untapped, and a few that don't (but only those that have an up-side, like Temple of Malady )

I hope you like my list, and maybe get some interesting ideas for how to run your own cycle of dead-to-reanimated army- EDH deck, with Meren at the helm!

Date added	7 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.25
Tokens	Emblem Liliana, Defiant Necromancer, Experience Token, Insect 1/1 G, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Other People's Fun Decks, MY DECK, edh, Mythos: The Gathering