Meren’s Thousand-Eyed Army [Primer]

Commander / EDH Control_Train

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Dec. 27, 2017

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• Golgari Thug - Dredge 4 seems decent, and the text box isn't completely irrelevant
• Terastodon - destroying three non-creatures seems decent
• Putrid Imp - it costs less mana for a discard outlet
• Agent of Erebos - for mass graveyard removal; this was used against me recently and I discovered that it fits the mass grave-hate slot perfectly because it is a creature and it is and ETB effect
• Corpse Connoisseur - I'm trying this out as Entomb on a creature; five cmc seems a little steep, but I'm going to test it
• Woodfall Primus - seems like extremely good value; destroys anything non-creature and has persist, so it has additional reuse value on top of playing a reanimator deck
• Rune-Scarred Demon - more tutors
• Bloodghast - free recursive creature
• Nether Traitor - an extremely easy to recur creature that can die to skullclamp
• Damnation - black Wrath of God, just seems good
• Butcher of Malakir - Fleshbag Marauder on steroids, why not Out:
  • Sylvan Scrying - good, but just rarely ever needed
  • Primal Growth - great ramp, on theme, works perfectly, just hate drawing this late game and the slot could be better served
  • Wild Mongrel - found the same card essentially but one cmc less
  • Fyndhorn Elves, Llanowar Elves. Elvish Mystic - I'm cutting all the mana dorks that don't color fix; they don't have haste, they're decent early drops and great skullclamp targets, but having them late-game is not great
  • Krosan Restorer - it doesn't have haste, and having to delay a turn or waste time getting it into play after a board wipe just always feels bad; Deserted Temple serves the same essential function and is harder to destroy
  • Grisly Salvage - it's a good card, but I just needed something better in the slot
  • Phyrexian Delver - seems good, it's a two for one technically, but it honestly doesn't do that much unless you cast it from your hand
  • Temur Sabertooth - it served a purpose once, but honestly it is so severely niche, in that it can protect from spot removal through a RIP or Leyline of the Void, it's seriously not worth the slot and not at that mana cost