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| 1v1 Commander | Legal |
| Archenemy | Legal |
| Block Constructed | Legal |
| Canadian Highlander | Legal |
| Casual | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Commander: Rule 0 | Legal |
| Custom | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
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| Legacy | Legal |
| Leviathan | Legal |
| Limited | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
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Culling Dais
Artifact
, Sacrifice a creature: Put a charge counter on Culling Dais.
, Sacrifice Culling Dais: Draw a card for each charge counter on Culling Dais.
Tsukimi on
A Threateningly Good Time
3 months ago
Herigast, Erupting Nullkite, Laughing Jasper Flint, and Bazaar Trader are just a few that popped out to me as not really helping your Steal and Sac strategy. I'd say you want more sac outlets that can stick around other than your commander, stuff like Viscera Seer or Culling Dais are a few that come to mind.
Optimator on
Goblin Shenanigans (The Secret of Kiki Jiki)
2 years ago
A bunch of card-draw cards you will want to note for any future shake-ups:
Moldervine Reclamation, Dark Prophecy, Species Specialist, Skullclamp, Village Rites, Deadly Dispute, Liliana, Dreadhorde General,
Collective Unconscious, Shamanic Revelation, Ohran Frostfang, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, Culling Dais
Colossal Majesty, Phyrexian Reclamation, Phyrexian Arena, Slate of Ancestry, Herald's Horn,
Greed, Erebos, God of the Dead,
Mask of Griselbrand, Fecundity, Guardian Project, Idol of Oblivion, Coveted Jewel, The Deck of Many Things
Painful Truths, Harmonize, Night's Whisper, Sign in Blood, Read the Bones, Reforge the Soul, Wheel of Misfortune,
Damnable Pact, Ambition's Cost, Ancient Craving, Syphon Mind, Minions' Murmurs, Necrologia,
Return of the Wildspeaker, Soul's Majesty, Rishkar's Expertise, Peer into the Abyss
I would skew toward permanents (for Kodama) and higher mana values (for Vial-Smasher)
zachz on
Orzhov Sacrifice
2 years ago
For budget sacrifice options, I would recommend Grafted Wargear and Culling Dais.
The Wargear allows you to attack with any of your creatures blindly, as they will either hurt your opponent, die getting blocked, or die after you re-equip the armor to someone else.
Culling Dais is slow but another cheap draw mechanic.
As options to maximize efficiency, cards in your graveyard could become fodder with Beckon Apparition or Rise from the Grave.
If you want to add more White to the deck, you could consider Soul Tithe and Celestial Flare. Both are protections while you decide what terms your creatures die on.
Some budget orzhov lands you could add are Temple of Silence, Scoured Barrens, and Orzhov Guildgate.
Ardees on
It's Just a Flesh Wound ($100 Meren)
3 years ago
Suggestions from someone who started from a total junk Meren deck in 2015, and through the years made it to a cEDH (check the playlist here if you want: Meren Surgical Toolbox [2K22]:
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Way too many lands. Never seen any budget deck running almost half the deck on lands only. Consider adding cheap staple cards like Kodama's Reach, Cultivate, or something like Emergent Sequence, Greenseeker (it also discards you a creature that you can pick up with meren at the end of turn), Primal Growth (good sac outlet too), Dawntreader Elk, Deathsprout, Diligent Farmhand, Rampant Growth, and notable Yavimaya Elder. Consider also adding all the 1-mana elves, all of which sit around 0.10$. If you include all these changes you can easily remove 10 lands, and sit at 35 lands total.
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Some cards you included are just downright bad, even for a budget deck. You can not only find cheaper but also better replacements for cards like Reprocess, Spider Spawning, Evincar's Justice, Zendikar's Roil. Some cards you have in your maybeboard, like Skullclamp or Buried Alive are much better options. Most definitely include Village Rites and Midnight Reaper for card draw, and Spore Frog for protection. Also Reclamation Sage
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Include Carrion Feeder as a sac outlet. You can also consider Spawning Pit and Culling Dais.
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Your deck has a very high CMC, 4.05. For a golgari deck this is way too high, considering reaching at least 3.00.
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Jarad's Orders and Diabolic Tutor are the cheapest tutors you can get. Definitely run them both.
More generally, have a look at EDHREC.com to see what cards best fit a budget Meren deck. No offense, but even as a budget your deck certainly needs much improvement. That is, assuming you don't run cards for their flavor or because you just like them. Then that's totally up to you.
DBCooper on
$20 Sack of Elementals
3 years ago
Great deck! Culling Dais may be an interesting consideration to replenish you hand and makes great use of sacrifice creatures. Great build!
Reynan on
Rarefied Atmosphere
3 years ago
Very cool deck, I always thought the new Linvala could give a nice azorius deck.
I would like to suggest Shabraz, the Skyshark, as you use Drogskol Reaver, you can make an infinite draw combo - but only if you are interested in that wincom, of course.
You use Emeria Angel and Azorius Chancery, so adding a Walking Atlas, you are able to put millions of tokens as you wish, and Walking Atlas work as a ramp in early game.
Boreas Charger, Cartographer's Hawk, Knight of the White Orchid and Loyal Warhound are nice possibilities of ramping defense. They can get Hallowed Fountain and Irrigated Farmland for you.
Another combo you can explore, and there's a lot of tutors for it in Azorius, is Archon of Sun's Grace + Enchanted Evening and there's endless tokens ETB(entering the battlefield). Anything to sacrifice a token or some ETB trigger to mill or deal damage to opponent do the trick, cards like High Market, Pyre of Heroes, Culling Dais, Altar of the Brood.
That's it buddy, nice deck.
Omniscience_is_life on
Alta Palani MonsterMother
4 years ago
Excellent deck you've got here, love the use of Culling Dais ! Criminally underplayed card.
My Atla deck is relatively similar your own, but you still might be able to take something from it--
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Enjoy, and hope it helps