Meren of Clan Nel Toth | EDH Budget Deck Tech $50 | Sacrifice | Magic the Gathering | Commander

Command your budget! The Commander’s Quarters is your source for everything budget Commander! On this deck tech we brew with Meren of Clan Nel Toth as our commander. Sacrifice creatures to gain experience counters and reanimate a ton of creatures to outvalue your opponents!
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[@princevegetaprinceof212say3]

Alright it's official the man has the power to read minds literally was about to place an order for a meren deck and this notification pops up right before I submit it Like what the heck?

[@GKing7669]

Oh man meren's been my main commander since she came out your gonna love it

[@James-fq3yz]

I was about to make a meren deck and got the notification for this

[@michaelgraves7595]

I just started making a deck for nel toth then stopped. It's like he knew

[@raphaelsamaroo6788]

Same man. I've got a Golgari Sacrifice deck on the way right now. The order for the rest of my cards off of TCG went in 6 days ago XD

[@ericgould3418]

Confirmed! I got Meren in a pull last night and thought this would be a cool commander.

[@firstoffthereswayfarersbau4140]

2:23 First off there's Wayfarer's Bauble.

[@MayorofAvabruck]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@mikelong2756]

He never fails to produce!😂🙏

[@grumpy5131]

Thank you for doing God's work

[@djrmarketing598]

Can't believe I've been thinking about a Meren deck, researching it, made a test proxy version, but didn't have the cash available to build it. Then I happened to pull a Meren out of a Mystery draft last night, and then this episode comes out this morning - I think this is what you call divine intervention telling me to build a Meren deck.

[@jamesward1210]

Divine Intervention is white, won’t work in the deck

[@Hysterikku]

Meren was what got me into edh and was my entry into the format

[@Erzas_Art_Atelier]

Me too

[@Hysterikku]

Hey same here!

[@Erzas_Art_Atelier]

My LGS suggested the precon when I told him i wanted to buy Meren. I'm so glad he did. My hubby absolutely hates my deck. His test of his decks is to see if they can beat my Meren.

[@gravytrain73]

First deck my best bro built when I introduced him to the format. He definitely didn’t build a budget version tho...

[@notasas9882]

Meren was my first commander! The trial decks you get for learning the game was actually a green deck and black deck

[@ArtimusJorga]

Me: say the thing Mitch: first off there's wayfarer's bauble. Me: he did it!

[@AnimeManiacAndres]

All these commander reprints, getting them super low. Mitch: MY TIME IS NOW!

[@AnimeManiacAndres]

I have been noticed!

[@fifthcanuck1128]

Mitch: *makes video about Golgari sack deck tech* My poor ass with Korvold: Write that down write that down!

[@nicholas8739]

Also, Korvold is still cEDH with food chain, and a bunch of ways to make him broken.

[@XxSasorixX]

Mitch did a Korvold sack deck tech before, you should check it out!

[@f350ize]

Ya meren is so powerful, shes my number one commander i play for cedh

[@draketheduelist]

Yeah, whenever I watch these, I have Scryfall open on another window, just so I can check these things for myself.

[@DavyMcWavy]

I don’t use food chain because combos get boring after awhile. Although, my Korvold doesn’t even need it to be nasty.

[@MutilatedBunny]

She is $5 now with the mystery booster

[@ninjazer0534]

JBlevins13 nahhh Il stick my commander version at $16+ , only looking to upgrade from the secret lair art

[@clutchbleach2057]

The mystery boosters are a God send for commander players. The cards I got from half a box completely flipped around a couple decks.

[@clutchbleach2057]

@@ninjazer0534 I feel it I really want a foil muldrotha for my commander

[@tempestandacomputer6951]

@@ninjazer0534 Why would you buy the myster booster one in the first place

[@randomyoutubeshorts1868]

Good one

[@Dynavolt-ol1gb]

Spore Frog is the GOAT for this deck in a more casual/aggro meta. It's the best 🤣

[@svsnv77]

Cards you missed that are budget and good hits in Meren: -Growth Spasm -Ravenous Chupacabra (I'm really surprised here) -Sifter of Skulls Also a very rare card: -Faceless butcher Which is almost a Fiend Hunter in Black, with instant speed sac effects it becomes straight exile.

[@phyrexian_dude4645]

I have a Meren and i would recommend some of this for upgrades: - Spawning Pit: free sac outlet, artifact so it's harder to kill, and every time you got 2 charge counters on it you can put a 2/2 spawn which can also fuel the pit and Meren. It used to be stupidly cheap at $0.15 USD but now days its nearly at $4 USD. Either way great card in general. - Mitotic Slime: Sometimes fulling Meren takes too much time, then put this $0.50 USD sucker and it and all its tokens you can easily get 7 experience counters in 1 turn and after that an ever growing army of chump blockers and sac reserves, a pain in the ass wall that always works. - Massacre Wurm: Absolutely INSANE, infest ETB, take 2 lives when an opponent creature dies, combos really well all the grave pact effects around. Big downside $20 USD, needs more reprints. - Any Wrath cards: You don't care about your creatures and you can easily play to attrition your opponents. There are some cheap black and golgary wraths around so don't worry getting Damnation, it helps but its not vital. I run Black Sun's Zenith ($4.50 USD), Decree of Pain ($3.35 USD) Nevinyrral's Disk ($2 USD), Pernicious Deed ($3.80 USD) and Damnation ($31 USD). But if you want budget, you can run Extinguish All Hope ($0.75 USD) and Life's Finale ($1.75 USD) - Living Death: It works every time but just to be sure put something to screw with the other graveyards or have ready all of those sweet grave pact effects and for $4.50 USD its a must. - Entomb and Buried Alive: They are a must, entomb it's expensive ($9 USD) in comparison to Buried a Life ($1.50) but with at least one of them you have a huge advantage. - Birthing Pod: It is way too good to ignore an will look for what you need and because of its ban in modern $9 USD its reasonable. - Nim Deathmantle: Sometimes you have a lot of free mana on Meren, so with will help you abuse ETBs or keep her around a lot for $6 UDS. - Deathrender: You want free creatures in play? for $1.75 USD and a sacrificed creature you get it. - Carrion feeder / Viscera seer / Phyrexian Ghoul / Nantuko Husk / Yahenni, Undying Partisan: Sac outlets with legs, only yahenni and viscera go over $2 USD the rest are less than $0.30 USD. - Gravebreaker Lamia: it is WAY superior to Corpse Connoisseur for the same price in mana and for only $0.50 USD. - Skullclamp: Just get it, those $6 USD are worth it. - Guardian Project: Its a damn shame its price went to $3.70 USD, it used to be way cheaper but for that constant draw it is worth. - Journey to Eternity: They are going to kill Meren a lot, to have a resurrection land it is too good to ignore... $4.20 USD - Zendikar Resurgent: More draw, more mana and hard to kill, used to be cheap... $4.50 USD. - Razaketh, the Foulblooded: This will be your most dangerous card and with Savra in play he will be a god... $15 USD. - Bitter Ordeal: do you hate combo decks? clear the board or a lot of tokens then play this $12 USD combo breaker or secure a victory by getting rid of all the things that will mess with your deck.

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

$100+ dollars of must-runs defeats the purpose of the budget, wouldn't you say?

[@phyrexian_dude4645]

@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos It is recommendations and its commander you have all the time in the world to get them.

[@victorbourguignon6897]

So happy! Pulled her and a bunch of cards from that list from mystery boosters yesterday!!!😁

[@BestFire03]

The day I was planning to create a Focused Meren deck ! Mitch get out of my head ^^

[@Darksteal2k7]

Literally JUST pulled a Meren in a Mystery booster and built a deck with cards I had laying around, so this has given me lots of ideas for budget upgrades. Thanks for the video!

[@clubbedsandwich1128]

Holy hell! I was literally searching for a good Commander video on Meren all day yesterday since I got her in one of my Mystery Booster packs. It's like I was meant for this commander.

[@ninjaman0003]

i like how you designed the deck. i went a different route when i first made my meren deck and focused more on eldrazi scion and spawn tokens. bunch of free sac fodder that helps ramp and block.

[@DisownedVT]

Mitch you are a life saver, I just pulled Meren from the mystery booster box and I had no idea what to build with her

[@BOTS31]

Journey to Eternity is also a nice include. If it flips into Atzal, Cave of Eternity you can reanimate something extra once every table rotation+ if you have seedborn muse you can reanimare something each turn

[@PawzBrownMTG]

Great deck tech Mitch your speed if delivery is on point. I'm a big fan👍

[@Tuturial464]

Reprint the Golgari legendary Meren which is done. now let’s reprint wayfarers bauble. And then angus so we actually get a deck tech for him

[@joelhaggis5054]

I just checked and he's on the reserved list 😢

[@Casey-cy6ph]

He has a Angus deck tech

[@MutilatedBunny]

I need mono black chainer. I need an affordable foil

[@JoeMoyle]

I already have a no-budget Meren deck but this gave me some ideas to make it a little more focused. Thanks for the video.

[@Ahmopsk]

Ive been waiting so long for this. Thank you Mitch!

[@antihero420]

Bruh, I was very excited to see meren gettin’ luv in 2020. I’m back the game after a 2 year break so was looking to update my perMERENts list (Meren list without instants or sorceries) so when I found this recent video, I was GEEKED! Even stumbled on some gems I’d forgotten about from forgotten years ago. Thanks again, you definitely got a sub outta me

[@FALCN120]

Since the Secret Lairs international woman's day drop, I've been excited by Meren and added her to the list of decks I want to brew.

[@jacobbreithaupt9494]

My first deck was mashing your list for muldrotha with JLK's brawl deck. I'm looking forward to building this deck as my first ever golgari deck!

[@kairenault]

Not even watch the video. I see a Mitch deck and a Meren deck, i like it, period.

[@LunarWingCloud]

I just pulled a Meren from my Mystery Booster box. This is a lot of help for ideas for the deck!

[@Roylucky13]

Awesome deck!! This is right up my alley I will be building this ASAP

[@GreatBeers]

I have a Meren deck, about, 3 years (?) this decklist looks very good for those on buget ! Had the good staples and fine suggestions ! I do Recomend !

[@MekanikKommandoh88]

I love this Commander.

[@giacomo4714]

Finally you did a video about ma favorite Commander! ...but where’s Skullclamp?😧

[@zealcrux]

Having just bought the Secret Lair, this video came in just in time!

[@salvatorestabile5547]

I got the secret lair too

[@clubbedsandwich1128]

How much is the Secret Lair?

[@salvatorestabile5547]

@@clubbedsandwich1128 the secret lair was available only for one day. You have to look for the cards on the secondary market now

[@shaydaio2094]

Wow love the deck! I just made one of these recently on tapped out. Had some of the same cards, but was waaaay more expensive.

[@shadoww4818]

I had a Meren precon that I slowly built up over the course of about three years before it got stolen. There's lots of cool things you can do with this deck, yes Hard hitters like Kokusho and Westvale Abbey are always good but some bigger brain strategies using a Mycoloth Devourer to produce a couple saporlings, sacrifice it, and then bring it back to cannibalize it's own children. I also had a legendary turn where Vulturous Zombie + Dread summons got me a 34/34 flyer in one move

[@zealousdemon]

Spore Frog is almost Golden Pig worthy in even non-budget decks. It easily starts gaining you experience counters and turns you into a pillow fort deck singlehandedly.

[@joshcyphers9347]

I've built the deck and spore frog is one of the first things I try to find using gy dump effects to bring back out. It's so good, and it's great for politics. It makes people never want to attack

[@michaelrozario6381]

Black Green is pretty much what I always want to run, I pulled Meren a few days ago at a draft and immediately thought of building a deck with her, so absolutely perfect timing. I am kinda surprised you didn't mention Reaper of the Wilds though, almost the same thing as Catacomb Sifter but can defend itself.

[@timothyzornes3327]

Would you consider a video about how you make cut choices for reasonable upgrades? The cuts in this video are not exactly strictly better cards but wholly different in function.

[@isaacchong1664]

I think perhaps adding a plaguemaw beast in the deck could help it a bunch. It can be a sacrifice outlet and then proliferate the experience counters you have :)

[@bigbuttlover2876]

Changing playback speedd to .75 was one of the best youtube decisions today.

[@orsettomorbido]

Ahhh, nice stuff! I have a Meren deck and it's so satisying to play!

[@AidanWR]

Creakwood Liege has a good anthem effect, and gives you more sacrifice fodder each turn

[@officialsuperrad]

Meren is one of my favorite commanders great episode!!

[@slifer867]

Just was scrolling through scryfall for budget Meren cards. Now I can stop! Thanks Mitch! Also the mystery booster Meren is ~5$ save even more money!

[@JuQmadrid]

Good moment to revamp my Meren deck, I'll follow the number of cards for every category from my card pool.

[@stefanellrodt52]

Again a very nice deck tech Mitch. Love your content! Is there a chance to see a Rosheen Meanderer with some nice Hydras or another Hydra Tribal Deck? Would be really nice.

[@SkellyBobRoss]

I just got the Secret Lair Drop Meren... Perfect Timing my dude. Perfect Timing.

[@datastorm17]

I love all the Golgari decks you make!

[@jessstiller3080]

how do you keep doing this. I made a meren deck yesterday and now you come out with this video

[@CAJminecraft]

I think it's a little pricier now, but I love running Sidisi, Undead Vizier in my Meren deck. Using Sidisi to exploit itself for choice cards and exp counters sets up insane combos fast

[@natebeal18]

Im currently building a meren stax cedh deck and some of the pieces here are very good

[@clutchbleach2057]

Pulled this card from a mystery booster and was stoked. Put it in my muldrotha deck which is all about sacrificing. Maren brings back creatures for free muldrotha makes sure there is enchantments and artifacts to keep the combos going

[@brandonflorea2580]

Dictate of Erebos is another good mention for this deck. May not be a creature but is a second Butcher.

[@julianayala3342]

video just started but i know im going to build this :D

[@sillytitan6395]

I just opened one last night

[@salfazlucario2660]

YAS!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!

[@Hrafnskald]

Ah, Meren, always fun to play :). When I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll swap in Songs of the Damned (Dark Ritual's big brother) and Bone Harvest for fun.

[@TobiasHellkyt]

Meren is by far my favorite commander! Though mine currently is more on the competitive side, I still got some awesome ideas from your deck tech.

[@judaschh]

Do you have a decklist of your competitive meren deck?

[@TobiasHellkyt]

Sadly I don't. I've never put it on Tappedout or EDHREC. I just started with the precon and built it up over the years. @@judaschh

[@duellegend71]

This is perfect I just wanted to get Into edh with this deck and just a day ago this video was made 😃

[@DatBoii2Dizzy]

Now I gotta build this

[@DharmaBums11]

My Fav combo finisher with Meren is Tooth n Nail (Entwine) for Sheoldred whispering one and It that Betrays. To make everyone hate you, even more, throw in a winter orb ;)

[@shehathnoname]

I would love to see how you would build around Yeva, Nature's Herald

[@gatoque12]

hey mitch, are you planning in doing a dalakos deck tech? i think it can be a really fun commander with some creazy haste creatures and tiny lethal tokens

[@princevegetaprinceof212say3]

Acolyte of affiction has become one of my favorite new cards, mills two cards and then gets you a permanent back to your hand love the value it gives.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303]

I still find E-wit to be better in my opinion

[@olafthemoose9413]

@@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303 E-wit is the best recursion creature for sure, but acolyt is pretty good as well.

[@drakeconsumerofsoulsandche4303]

@@olafthemoose9413 true. I use both and the GGBB one

[@MetPhD]

I bought the Women's Day Secret Lair, planning to use the Meren for a deck... then I got another from Myst Boost. Rather have had the Elesh Norn from the Myst Boost but oh well. I can finally do a Golgari deck!

[@cachibachesrafa]

Really cool deck

[@kenchipman4500]

I would say noosegraf mob is a great way to gain extra zombies to help feed your activated sacrifices without removing key cards from your field.

[@MrSocrates_]

Mitch, you forgot to mention Gravekeeper Lamia, which is in your deck list xD Great video nonetheless!

[@GizZm086]

Skullclamp is awesome with this commander!

[@salvatorestabile5547]

Just made a Meren deck. It's crazy powerful

[@mn6334]

You had me at Syr Konrad 😆

[@ericsmith3808]

Is there any chance that you'll ever do an Oathbreaker deck tech? I know it's not a popular subtype of EDH, but I would be very interested to see what kind of crazy combinations you could come up with for the format, and maybe you could even include a segment where you upgrade the deck to be a full EDH deck. I really enjoy the Oathbreaker format for how cheap it can be to get into while still maintaining the competitive and fun factors. It's a shame it's dying out.

[@cratuss2661]

For real are you stalking me!?!? always releasing the commanders i want to play

[@fish7678]

I pulled Meren the other day. She is leading a massive Eldrazi army.

[@bryanjortiz-serrano5775]

Mitch, what you think of cavalier of night for this deck?

[@Erzas_Art_Atelier]

😍 My favorite commander

[@glaedr0173]

Hi Mitch. I was wondering if you could do a dech tech on Princess Twilight Sparkle for my daughter. Tribal and group hug using the other 2 Ponies in it. I have the 3 cards, so the budget can be first the other 97 cards if you dont mind. I appreciate all that you do. I love all your builds you do. I have used several and always destroy my play group lol

[@crovax1375]

Spore Frog! I love that little guy

[@miisanwastaken]

I have a feeling the kitty oven combo could abuse the commander...

[@kieranfarrell1656]

quite gooood

[@EpicCakeHunter]

i really want to see a deck tech of Ertai, the Corrupted sooooooo badly

[@tmarks2562]

Hey, would the dominaria card "whisper, blood rhiturgist" work in this deck?

[@kaladelsol3432]

I would love to see a Titania deck tech

[@rhynncrowley7337]

I love Meren. I just built a deck for her and i’m very excited to play it as I love Golgari. Is it sad I would get the Secret Lair just for her?

[@thomaswansell1770]

Extremely. Jk. Good for you man

[@Phelps285]

Not at all. That's exactly what I did. I might use the other commanders in the future or just sell them when they get really expensive, but it was really just for Meren.

[@PewPew_McPewster]

Not at all, Meren is an insanely powerful commander, and her Secret Lair art is particularly sweet, especially her foiling. And the rest of the Secret Lair is undoubtedly worth your money as well.

[@krisdaschwab912]

Oh cool, the bane of my commander existence.

[@rulefanatic6506]

Take out wayfarers bauble. Zero dredge?!?! I have strong feelings about that. (Deep breath) Besides this, the deck has a lot of good interactions but no big game plan for winning. Seems like this is a crawling meren deck with slow draw and recursion. Probably also needs to be more creature based.

[@clubbedsandwich1128]

Should there not be a Cultivate in here somewhere? It feels weird not having a Cultivate in a green deck?

[@garrettmartin4750]

Building this deck right now XD

[@garrettmartin4750]

But my budget is much larger

[@-overworld-7136]

Make a budget Oloro deck tech please :)

[@evansanzari2451]

Spore frog and caustic caterpillar are MVP in my build

[@silencia08]

Can't wait for Meren of Clan Nel Toth $200 Deck Teck

[@jortiz2734]

One day I hope to find someone who loves me as much as Mitch loves Wayfarer”s Bubble. 🙏🏻

[@TheIndianaJonas]

Hey, i saw i Gravebreaker Lamia in the deck list, but not in the video, am i wrong?

[@elijahstrode2092]

You should do deck tech for ezuri claw of progress.

[@ninjazer0534]

I play entomb, reanimate, sheoldred, in my build

[@HienNguyenHMN]

I"m surprised there are more swamps than forests considering you need Green to ramp and fix your colours, and you need them earlier in the game.

[@raohell]

Meren has always been more about sacrifice and graveyard interaction, turns out green isn't as beneficial for her as It is in most decks using the color. Don't need that much ramp as well since you are mostly gonna play very chep cost creatures with her

[@noahmanweiler8833]

Spore frog is the literally best card in a Meren deck from my personal experience

[@matthewmassengill7163]

Just out of curiosity but why no burnished hart? It seems perfect for this deck (6 months later) but 1.32$ on tcgplayer. 3 mana sac it to search for two basic lands onto the battlefield. I've not built my Meren deck yet, but ideally this is a slam dunk card for this deck.

[@ethanbowers2429]

I would have done grunn the lonely king. But it's still a cool deck

[@dethlordegaming550]

YESSSS

[@theblackcoatedman6794]

As a Yuriko player, I loathe this deck with a passion.

[@MongooseTrianglez]

As a fellow Yuriko player, you mean spore frog right?

[@theblackcoatedman6794]

@@MongooseTrianglez *Cries in confirmation.* Bojuka Bog can't save me every time.

[@thepaddywag6079]

Hahaha a friend has a yurioko deck and insta concedes when I play the og frog

[@NECROLORDZ]

Nickthenack Thepaddywag Then your friend built his deck rather poorly if he did not foresee opponents might make the combat step useless. For example, in my Kozilek deck I have a lot of haymakers, but also carry Homeward Path and a couple exilers. Just in case someone turns my own titans against me.