Meren, Hulk, and Friends

Commander / EDH BG (Golgari)

Kira0077

Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bayou
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dryad Arbor
• 8x Forest
• 1x Gaea's Cradle
• 1x High Market
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 8x Swamp
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Draw (6)

• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Compost
• 1x Dark Confidant
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Runic Armasaur

Sac Outlets (4)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 1x Ashnod's Altar

Board Wipe (2)

• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Damnation

Tutors (15)

• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Green Sun's Zenith
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Worldly Tutor
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Survival of the Fittest
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Eldritch Evolution
• 1x Birthing Pod
• 1x Natural Order
• 1x Pattern of Rebirth

Utility (10)

• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Nature's Claim
• 1x Noxious Revival
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Ravenous Slime
• 1x Reclamation Sage

Combo Pieces (5)

• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Body Snatcher
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Protean Hulk

Spot Removal (2)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy

Commander (1)

Mana Ramp (10)

• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Boreal Druid
• 1x Deathrite Shaman
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Priest of Titania
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder

Reanimate (7)

• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Victimize

Stax (3)

• 1x Root Maze
• 1x Null Rod
• 1x Mindslicer

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Sideboard

Other (5)

• 1x Carpet of Flowers
• 1x Collector Ouphe
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Bane of Progress

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Maybeboard

Other (12)

• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Wild Growth
• 1x Fauna Shaman
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pernicious Deed
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Yahenni's Expertise
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded

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Turn 2 win:

1. (T1) Play swamp and use it for for Sol Ring
2. (T2) Play another swamp. Wait untill before your opponent's end step and cast Entomb for Protean Hulk. Cast Necromancy to reanimate Protean Hulk. The hulk will die due to necromancy's instant speed clause.
3. see below for whole hulk chain to win

Basic Hulk Combo:

1. Hulk dies in any way, fetching Bodysnatcher (BS,) sac outlet and 1 CMC creature of choice (preferably another sac outlet)
2. BS ETB on stack, sac BS, BS LTB on stack, BS reanimates Hulk and is exiled, BS ETB fizzles
3. Sac Hulk, fetching Mike/Ball

Mikaeus Stuck in Hand, Hulk Dies (Phyrexian Delver):

1. Hulk trigger fetches BS and choice of 1-2 drops
2. Allow BS ETB trigger to resolve, discarding Mike
3. Sac BS, returning Hulk to play
4. Sac Hulk, fetching Phyrexian Delver (PD,) Ball, and choice of 1-drop
5. Ball dies as state-based action
6. PD ETB reanimates Mikaeus
7. Sac PD (undying) returning Ball to play

Walking Ballista and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed Combo: Requires Ball, Mike, and a repeatable (free) sacrifice outlet in play

1. Sac Ball (undying trigger)
2. Remove +1/+1 counter from Ball, deal 1 damage to an enemy
3. Repeat previous steps (infinite damage)

Tutors:

Eldritch Evolution gets Mindslicer

Finale of Devastation gets either Viscera Seer or a utility creature

Remove Natural Order in a Razaketh list

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 4 Rares 20 - 1 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.23
Tokens	Experience Token