Merieke Ri Berit, Manipulator of the Stack

Commander / EDH Budget Casual Control Multiplayer Sacrifice Tap/Untap Theme/Gimmick WUB (Esper)

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Abilities That Tap (4)

• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Royal Assassin

Additional Activated Abilities (2)

• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth

Card Draw (14)

• 1x Ancient Craving
• 1x Bane, Lord of Darkness
• 1x Cut of the Profits
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Vision
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Skeletal Scrying
• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Exile Opponents' Stuff (5)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1x Necrotic Fumes
• 1x Opposition Agent

GY Recursion (6)

• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
• 1x Soul Transfer

I Control Your Things (11)

• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Callous Oppressor
• 1x Chainer, Dementia Master
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Promise of Tomorrow
• 1x Sen Triplets
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Lands (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 5x Island
• 1x Meteor Crater
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Otawara, Soaring City
• 6x Plains
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Silundi Vision  ^Flip
• 1x Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 1x Sunlit Marsh
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Watery Grave

Protection For Merieke (3)

• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sejiri Shelter  ^Flip
• 1x Selfless Glyphweaver  ^Flip

Ramp (14)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Azorius Signet
• 1x Darksteel Ingot
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Midnight Clock
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Prismatic Lens
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stormscape Familiar
• 1x Sunscape Familiar
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy

Removal (15)

• 1x Avatar of Woe
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Despark
• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Legions to Ashes
• 1x Necrotic Fumes
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Selfless Glyphweaver  ^Flip
• 1x Soul Transfer
• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Void Rend
• 1x Wrath of God

Sac Outlet (5)

• 1x Cut of the Profits
• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Necrotic Fumes
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Tokens (1)

• 1x Toxrill, the Corrosive

Untappers (9)

• 1x Aura of Dominion
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Kelpie Guide
• 1x Niblis of the Breath
• 1x Puppeteer
• 1x Retreat to Coralhelm
• 1x Tideforce Elemental
• 1x Vizier of Tumbling Sands

Commander (1)

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Other (30)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Carnage Altar
• 1x Chakram Retriever
• 1x Cold Storage
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Corrupted Conviction
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Declaration in Stone
• 1x Drana and Linvala
• 1x Eradicator Valkyrie
• 1x Gild
• 1x Magewright's Stone
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Phyrexian Vault
• 1x Puppet Strings
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Relic Vial
• 1x Second Wind
• 1x Settle the Wreckage
• 1x Staff of Domination
• 1x Stonybrook Angler
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Synod Sanctum
• 1x Talisman of Progress
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Unmake
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Winds of Abandon

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The objective of this deck is pretty simple: You're going to take everything from your opponents. You're going to use your opponents' capabilities against themselves. You'll take their creatures. You'll take their hand. You'll take their library. Ad when you're done abusing those, you'll take some of what they have lost from the graveyard to use against them again. And if you don't want to abuse it...you can make them lose it.

You have plenty of ramp and card draw to get the ball rolling. You have cost reductions in the form of the Familiars to attempt to overwhelm your opponents. You have plenty of removal, as well as reusable removal so you can destroy creatures that are not use to you at the moment or are a big threat...then you can resurrect them immediately with the likes of Adarkar Valkyrie or later on with things like Dimir Doppelganger and Chainer.

With creatures, auras and enchantments that can untap, you can abuse the stack and priority to steal multiple creatures without destroying any of them. If the opponent attempts to steal Merieke from you or found another devious means to make you lose control of their creatures, you can retaliate by sacrificing them to various things to draw cards to gain the upper hand.

Abilities such as Liesse ensure you can permanently remove creatures that may pose a threat to you that you will not want to control. That which isn't useful to you can easily be discarded.

You don't need to have big powerful creatures directly at your disposal when you can simple take what is already available, courtesy of your opponents.

Date added	11 months
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Gold, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Slug 1-1 B, Treasure
Folders	Commander, Cool Decks