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Meren Recursive
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Est deck cost: $331.27
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Commander

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Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (cma) 186

Commander

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Draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
Deathreap Ritual

Morbid — At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, you may draw a card.

Enchantment
Deathreap Ritual (m3c) 259
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (c21) 225
Ravenous Squirrel

Whenever you sacrifice an artifact or creature, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. {1}{B}{G}, Sacrifice an artifact or creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Ravenous Squirrel (pw24) 15
Twilight Prophet

Flying Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have the city's blessing, reveal the top card of your library and put it into your hand. Each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is that card's mana value.

Creature
Twilight Prophet (mkc) 143
Witch's Cauldron

{1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.

Artifact
Witch's Cauldron (j22) 490

Draw

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Mill

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Angel of Suffering

Flying If damage would be dealt to you, prevent that damage and mill twice that many cards.

Creature
Angel of Suffering (snc) 67

Mill

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Removal

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Accursed Marauder

When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Accursed Marauder (mh3) 80
Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (acr) 95
Back to Nature

Destroy all enchantments.

Instant
Back to Nature (m15) 169
Bow of Nylea

Attacking creatures you control have deathtouch. {1}{G}, {T}: Choose one — • Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. • Bow of Nylea deals 2 damage to target creature with flying. • You gain 3 life. • Put up to four target cards from your graveyard on the bottom of your library in any order.

Artifact Enchantment
Bow of Nylea (sld) 1504
Butcher of Malakir

Flying Whenever this creature or another creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature
Butcher of Malakir (lcc) 187
Cankerbloom

{1}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Destroy target enchantment. • Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Cankerbloom (one) 161
Chain Devil

Animate Chains — When this creature enters, each player sacrifices a nontoken creature of their choice.

Creature
Chain Devil (clb) 120
Deadly Brew

Each player sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice. If you sacrificed a permanent this way, you may return another permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Deadly Brew (stx) 176
Final Act

Choose one or more — • Destroy all creatures. • Destroy all planeswalkers. • Destroy all battles. • Exile all graveyards. • Each opponent loses all counters.

Sorcery
Final Act (m3c) 104
Maelstrom Pulse

Destroy target nonland permanent and all other permanents with the same name as that permanent.

Sorcery
Maelstrom Pulse (m3c) 269
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (blc) 256
Reclamation Sage

When this creature enters, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Creature
Reclamation Sage (ltc) 259
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (acr) 93
Savra, Queen of the Golgari

Whenever you sacrifice a black creature, you may pay 2 life. If you do, each other player sacrifices a creature of their choice. Whenever you sacrifice a green creature, you may gain 2 life.

Creature
Savra, Queen of the Golgari (rvr) 218
Stronghold Assassin

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Creature
Stronghold Assassin (c13) 93
Vraska's Contempt

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain 2 life.

Instant
Vraska's Contempt (xln) 129

Removal

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Tutor

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Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
Diabolic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Tutor (sld) 1592
Entomb

Search your library for a card, put that card into your graveyard, then shuffle.

Instant
Entomb (dmr) 82
Protean Hulk

When this creature dies, search your library for any number of creature cards with total mana value 6 or less, put them onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Protean Hulk (a25) 185

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Counters

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Cordial Vampire

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on each Vampire you control.

Creature
Cordial Vampire (mh1) 83
High-Society Hunter

Flying Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Whenever another nontoken creature dies, draw a card.

Creature
High-Society Hunter (fdn) 384
Necropolis Regent

Flying Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, put that many +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Necropolis Regent (voc) 132
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled

Flying, trample Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life. Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.

Creature
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled (2x2) 84

Counters

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Intel

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Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158

Intel

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Protection

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Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (plst) C19-217
Spore Frog

Sacrifice this creature: Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Creature
Spore Frog (blc) 238

Protection

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Sac Outlet

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Daemogoth Titan

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, sacrifice a creature.

Creature
Daemogoth Titan (stx) 174

Sac Outlet

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Creature

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Drivnod, Carnage Dominus

If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. {B/P}{B/P}, Exile three creature cards from your graveyard: Put an indestructible counter on Drivnod. ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Creature
Drivnod, Carnage Dominus (one) 305

Creature

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (otc) 273
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (mkc) 256
Darkmoss Bridge

This land enters tapped. Indestructible {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Artifact Land
Darkmoss Bridge (mh2) 245
Deathcap Glade

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Deathcap Glade (dbl) 528
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (dmr) 410
Golgari Rot Farm

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (blc) 308
Grim Backwoods

{T}: Add {C}. {2}{B}{G}, {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Draw a card.

Land
Grim Backwoods (c15) 288
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
Mortuary Mire

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (bfz) 240
Necroblossom Snarl

As this land enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (ltc) 321
Overgrown Tomb

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Overgrown Tomb (pgrn) 253p
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (blc) 132
Shimmerdrift Vale

This land enters tapped. As this land enters, choose a color. {T}: Add one mana of the chosen color.

Land
Shimmerdrift Vale (j22) 821
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (brc) 33
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dmr) 406
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (m3c) 383
Woodland Cemetery

This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (ltc) 346

Land

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Ramp

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Birds of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature
Birds of Paradise (sld) 176
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (pip) 183
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (ddc) 45
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove

You may play an additional land on each of your turns. Lands you control are every basic land type in addition to their other types.

Creature Enchantment
Dryad of the Ilysian Grove (m3c) 225
Greedy Freebooter

When this creature dies, scry 1 and create a Treasure token. (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom. A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Greedy Freebooter (lci) 109
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Llanowar Elves

{T}: Add {G}.

Creature
Llanowar Elves (dom) 168
Llanowar Scout

{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Llanowar Scout (dom) 170
Pawn of Ulamog

Whenever this creature or another nontoken creature you control dies, you may create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Creature
Pawn of Ulamog (roe) 122
Skull Prophet

{T}: Add {B} or {G}. {T}: Mill two cards.

Creature
Skull Prophet (iko) 206
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160

Ramp

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Theft

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Lord of the Void

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top seven cards of that player's library, then put a creature card from among them onto the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Lord of the Void (rvr) 81

Theft

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Drain

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Blood Artist

Whenever this creature or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (ema) 81
Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (ths) 89
Shard of the Nightbringer

Flying Drain Life — When this creature enters, if you cast it, target opponent loses half their life, rounded up. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Shard of the Nightbringer (40k) 55

Drain

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Lifegain

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Essence Warden

Whenever another creature enters, you gain 1 life.

Creature
Essence Warden (ltc) 242

Lifegain

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Recursion

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Eternal Witness

When this creature enters, you may return target card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Eternal Witness (m3c) 227
Genesis

At the beginning of your upkeep, if this creature is in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{G}. If you do, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Genesis (mh1) 166
Honest Rutstein

When Honest Rutstein enters, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature
Honest Rutstein (otj) 207
Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Sorcery
Living Death (ltc) 203
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124

Recursion

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Token

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Blight Mound

Attacking Pests you control get +1/+0 and have menace. Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this token dies, you gain 1 life."

Enchantment
Blight Mound (c21) 36

Token

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Sideboard

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Aid from the Cowl

Revolt — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, reveal the top card of your library. If it's a permanent card, you may put it onto the battlefield. Otherwise, you may put it on the bottom of your library.

Enchantment
Aid from the Cowl (moc) 290
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (otc) 126
Beacon of Unrest

Put target artifact or creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Shuffle Beacon of Unrest into its owner's library.

Sorcery
Beacon of Unrest (c16) 107
Deathbonnet Sprout

Creature
Deathbonnet Sprout // Deathbonnet Hulk (mid) 181Deathbonnet Sprout // Deathbonnet Hulk (mid) 181
Deathsprout

Destroy target creature. Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Deathsprout (war) 189
Golgari Findbroker

When this creature enters, return target permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Golgari Findbroker (grn) 175
Gutter Grime

Whenever a nontoken creature you control dies, put a slime counter on this enchantment, then create a green Ooze creature token with "This token's power and toughness are each equal to the number of slime counters on Gutter Grime."

Enchantment
Gutter Grime (isd) 186
Thrilling Encore

Put onto the battlefield under your control all creature cards in all graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn.

Instant
Thrilling Encore (woc) 118
Uncage the Menagerie

Search your library for up to X creature cards with different names that each have mana value X, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Uncage the Menagerie (hou) 137
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (cmm) 195

Sideboard

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Tokens & Extras

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Eldrazi Spawn

Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}.

Creature Token
Eldrazi Spawn (tncc) 2
Elephant

Creature Token
Elephant (tonc) 14
Inkling

Flying

Creature Token
Inkling (tstx) 4
Ooze

Creature Token
Ooze (t2xm) 15
Pest

When this creature dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Token
Pest (tstx) 5
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tstx) 7
Treasure

{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact Token
Treasure (tsnc) 15
Vampire

Trample, lifelink, haste

Creature Token
Vampire (tmid) 14

Tokens & Extras

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