trying to build EDH Meren of Clan Nel Toth under 45 dollars
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Posted on Dec. 14, 2019, 11:15 p.m. by kiddevil
trying to make a budget deck for a budget league and i want to challenge myself to make Meren under $45 lets see how creative you guys can be
-thank you in advance
bushido_man96 says... #3
Ok, now I'm off my phone and on my computer, and this goes a bit easier. There are a lot of budget cards that are solid for Meren. Caustic Caterpillar and Viridian Zealot are great self-sacrificing utility. Spore Frog can really lock down a table. Cards like Fleshbag Marauder , Plaguecrafter , and Shriekmaw are all good removal spells that help put counters on Meren. Butcher of Malakir is budget Grave Pact you can run.
Budget card draw: Grim Haruspex , Fecundity , Moldervine Reclamation , Izoni, Thousand-Eyed , Vampiric Rites , and Viscera Seer for scrying.
I failed to mention Sakura-Tribe Elder and Yavimaya Elder are also good ramp/land tutor cards that synergize well with Meren.
Buried Alive , Final Parting , and Jarad's Orders are all fantastic budget tutors that work great with graveyard strategies.
Now, that all said, I'm not sure how exactly you want to win with the deck, but Aristocrats tend to be budget, and you can run several of them to bleed the table dry that way doing what Meren wants to do; have critters die. Blood Artist , Zulaport Cutthroat , Poison-Tip Archer , Syr Konrad, the Grim , Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord are all good budget options for this strategy. But there are other directions you could go; it's up to you. What do you want your deck to do?
I hope this has helped out a little more.
bushido_man96 says... #2
Blood Pet and Blood Vassal as mana dorks, alongside the standard dorks, because they can sac themselves. Evolutionary Leap , Carnage Altar , Spawning Pit , Phyrexian Ghoul , and Nantuko Husk are budget sac outlets.
This is a start. More to come...
December 15, 2019 12:19 a.m.