They See Me Diggin', They Hatin'

Commander / EDH Aggro BG (Golgari) Demons Ramp Reanimator Tokens

K1ngMars

Creature (44)

• 1x Acidic Slime
• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Caustic Caterpillar
• 1x Creakwood Liege
• 1x Dawntreader Elk
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Izoni, Thousand-Eyed
• 1x Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1x Kessig Cagebreakers
• 1x Kokusho, the Evening Star
• 1x Manglehorn
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mycoloth
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Nyx Weaver
• 1x Pathbreaker Ibex
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Poison-Tip Archer
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Razaketh, the Foulblooded
• 1x Reclamation Sage
• 1x Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Sheoldred, Whispering One
• 1x Skullwinder
• 1x Smothering Abomination
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spore Frog
• 1x Underrealm Lich
• 1x Viridian Emissary
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Wood Elves
• 1x Woodfall Primus
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (36)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x City of Shadows
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 8x Forest
• 1x Foul Orchard
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Grim Backwoods
• 1x High Market
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Jungle Hollow
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Tranquil Thicket
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Overwhelming Stampede
• 1x Victimize

Commander (1)

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Awakening Zone
• 1x Deathreap Ritual
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x From Beyond
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Journey to Eternity  ^Flip

Instant (2)

• 1x Krosan Grip
• 1x Putrefy

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Bloodgift Demon
• 1x Mitotic Slime
• 1x Satyr Wayfinder
• 1x Thragtusk
• 1x Woodland Bellower
• 1x World Shaper

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Deadbridge Chant
• 1x Evolutionary Leap
• 1x Fecundity
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Instant (1)

• 1x Grisly Salvage

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Cultivate
• 1x Ever After
• 1x Jarad's Orders

Artifact (1)

• 1x Plague Boiler

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Maybeboard

Creature (53)

• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Arbor Elf
• 1x Archfiend of Despair
• 1x Belbe, Corrupted Observer
• 1x Beledros Witherbloom
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Cankerbloom
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cryptic Trilobite
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Demon's Disciple
• 1x Devoted Druid
• 1x Diligent Farmhand
• 1x Doom Weaver
• 1x Druid of Purification
• 1x Elves of Deep Shadow
• 1x Elvish Mystic
• 1x Embodiment of Agonies
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Fyndhorn Elves
• 1x Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
• 1x Glissa Sunseeker
• 1x Glissa, the Traitor
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Haywire Mite
• 1x Lesser Masticore
• 1x Llanowar Elves
• 1x Magus of the Bridge
• 1x Massacre Girl
• 1x Melira, Sylvok Outcast
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Pawn of Ulamog
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x Primal Druid
• 1x Putrid Goblin
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Savra, Queen of the Golgari
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Spike Feeder
• 1x Splinterfright
• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Tatterkite
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Timeless Witness
• 1x Triskelion
• 1x Valentin, Dean of the Vein  ^Flip
• 1x Vile Entomber
• 1x Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Instant (14)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Autumn's Veil
• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Harness Infinity
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mortality Spear
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Reap
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
• 1x Rushed Rebirth
• 1x Stunning Reversal
• 1x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (14)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blessing of Leeches
• 1x Blight Mound
• 1x Bridge from Below
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dark Privilege
• 1x Feed the Pack
• 1x Guardian Project
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Perilous Forays
• 1x Tainted AEther
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Wound Reflection

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Vraska, Golgari Queen

Sorcery (14)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Command the Dreadhorde
• 1x Culling Ritual
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Finale of Devastation
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Gaea's Will
• 1x Life / Death
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Persist
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Unmarked Grave

Land (10)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Drownyard Temple
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Miren, the Moaning Well
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (7)

• 1x Blasting Station
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Spawning Pit
• 1x Strionic Resonator

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The focus of this deck is really simple: start with a good-ish ramp, while building up slowly board presence. Then trying to get 4-6 counters on Meren: from there everything's easier. The aim of the deck is either consistently drawing (and thus discarding things to later "dig out" from the graveyard), or to lock down opponents by making them sacrifice creatures. From there on, the win condition is either:

• Being able to build board and card advantage and then, slowly, eventually kill everybody;
• Dropping the HDAMBZ (Heavy Duty Avenger of My Beloved Zendikar, aka Avenger of Zendikar), wich generally floods the board (and can be sacrificed and recursed to flood even more). If it's still not enough, just add Overwhelming Stampede to the mix;
• Using again and again Black Smoke Shenron's... ehm, I meant... Kokusho, the Evening Star's death trigger to eventually drain the soul out of our opponents. The process can be doubled up in speed by adding Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord as a sacrifice outlet;
• Dropping recursively too many big creatures (not so easy to do though, since at that point you usually have been priority nr. 1 for the last 4 turns);
• Having your opponents swearing at you cos' "You are a bad person" and then leaving the table because you locked down the board so much that even you can't do anything about it. (Can happen :/ );

But wait wait wait. Meren's not unstoppable. You'll get slowed or even stomped if you either:

• Get forced to shuffle key cards back into in your library (Chaos Warp, Terminus, ...);
• Get forced to reshuffle your graveyard into your library (Time Reversal, Day's Undoing, ...);
• Get your graveyard exiled by something like a Nihil Spellbomb, or even worse, completely negated, by something like Rest in Peace or Leyline of the Void;
• Have no access to Meren of Clan Nel Toth, or other recursion engines;

In the Sideboard I put all the cards that used to be in the deck before updates, thus I own all the cards in there. One the other hand, I do not own the cards in the Maybeboard, even though I'd like to test them if they weren't so expensive / did know what to swap them with. If you've got suggestions regarding upgrades, swaps or anything, tell me down here! If you read this through the end, you are a good person. Thanks! I guess.

Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 2 Mythic Rares 34 - 9 Rares 25 - 2 Uncommons 13 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.95
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Eldrazi Spawn 0/1 C, Experience Token, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Insect 1/1 BG, Morph 2/2 C, Ooze 1/1 G, Ooze 2/2 G for Mitotic Ooze, Plant 0/1 G, Saproling 1/1 G, Thrull 1/1 B, Wolf 2/2 G, Worm 1/1 BG
Folders	Meren