Welcome to a A budget version of Meren for those looking for some graveyard fun but have limited money to do so! This deck uses Meren as well as some other cards to cause some graveyard shenanigans as well as some control against your opponents.

Necrotic Ooze + Phyrexian Devourer + Triskelion. This is the main combo of the deck also known as our main wincon. We will try to get Buried Alive and then focus on getting the Ooze reanimated for the win. To Tutor this out we have some options like Diabolic Tutor, Dark Petition, Mastermind's Acquisition . So we should be able to get to a wincon reliably. However if the above is a no fly zone then we default to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Phyrexian Devourer thus killing the board in one swail foop! THEN if that doesn't work we bring out good ol' Gray Merchant of Asphodel.

Now should that fail we turtle up and control the board. We will be using cards like Merciless Executioner, Fleshbag Marauder, Butcher of Malakir. Thankfully with the amount of creatures/tokens we have fodder is readily available.

Strionic Resonator, Becuase abusing Meren's ability more than once is just too good

Eternal Witness, do you like getting tutors and various other cards that aren't creatures back to you hand repeatedly? Yeah, so do I!

Lastly let us look upon the glory that is Living Death because let's be honest, this card is a late game bomb that really shakes up the game!

I would add that you not believe TappedOut's price total at the bottom of this deck. I went in to TCG and did some digging and was able to get my total of the deck around the $150 mark fairly easily so I am sure you can as well if not perhaps cheaper. Also I would like to thank you for taking a look at my deck! If you like it please consider hitting the upvote button. If not and you think it is garbage let's have a chat about what you think. I am always willing to hear people out. Thanks again everyone! Cheers!

Note: TappedOut might say this deck is over $150 but this is not the case if you use TCGPlayer. TappedOut bases the price as though the cards were all in NM condition since that is what it defaults to unless specified otherwise. Please think about this before commenting. It gets a little silly having to repeat myself over and over again. Thank you for your time :)

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Hello everyone!

So, I haven't really looked at this for a year and don't check in all that often. But I do try my best to make sure the deck stays at or under the $150 mark as I feel that is super important. Especially for people looking for budget options for Meren. In that spirit I have made some minor changes to the decklist to ensure it stays in the budget area. As such the deck is now up to date. I might share my version of a properly upgraded version of this deck but with a higher budget in mind. But I don't have a ton of time so I am unsure when that would happen. Such is life... Anywho that is all from me for now~

Happy re-animating!

KingMathoro

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29% Casual

71% Competitive

Revision 10 See all

(2 years ago)

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+1 Skull Prophet main
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Top Ranked
Date added 6 years
Last updated 2 years
Exclude colors WUR
Splash colors G
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

3 - 0 Mythic Rares

23 - 0 Rares

35 - 0 Uncommons

17 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.27
Tokens 2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Morph 2/2 C, Plant 0/1 G
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