MTG Combo: Butcher of Malakir + Dictate of Erebos

GS10 on Meren of Clan Not-Dead

7 years ago

@Wickked, first of all thanks for your feedback!

I've thought about mana dorks and I see a lot of lists running them in fact. At first I thought those would be silly in a Meren (or any reanimator for that matter) strategy, since they bring nothing else on reanimation. But they are early game ramp and if there's one thing they do even better than that is dying! All of them are extremely frail, and that's actually what's selling the argument of incuding them to me. I might lose some very splashy cards to include otherwise weaker options. My main concern about that is drawing them all late game, that would be one of the worst mayhems to possibly happen in most games with this deck.

Spike Weaver actually is pretty cool! I teased one of my friends who plays Ezuri, Claw of Progress and is fed up of losing against me that he should have included one himself, but never considered it in Meren. Sometimes Spore Frog isn't enough to keep me from a whole table playing against me. I've thought about Creakwood Liege too, and between it or Sifter of Skulls probably the Liege is better generally, but if I'm in a rough position, most of the times the Eldrazi is going to be better (and it's slightly bigger, but that won't be that relevant most of the times) and the fact that its tokens sac themselves for mana is hugely relevant, not only for the mana, but mainly because of Butcher of Malakir + Dictate of Erebos shenanigans (and experience counters of course).

I'll check your deck as soon as I can and I'll make sure to suggest whatever improvements I can come up too as well ;) Once again, thank you for your comment mate!