This is a Golgari aristocrats and recursion deck. Meren of Clan Nel Toth gains experience whenever another creature dies and returns a creature card from the graveyard each end step, onto the battlefield when its mana value fits the counter total, or to hand otherwise. The deck fills its graveyard with self-mill, repeatedly sacrifices value creatures with enter or death triggers through free and repeatable outlets, and lets Meren loop them back for incremental card advantage, removal and board presence. How it wins: It grinds opponents out with recurring value creatures, then closes with sacrifice drain, graveyard-scaled threats, token swarms and team pump turns that push lethal damage through. Key roles: - Sacrifice outlets: Free or repeatable ways to kill its own creatures, turning each death into Meren experience, cards or other value (Korozda Guildmage, Phyrexian Plaguelord, Blood Bairn) - Recursion fodder: Cheap creatures with enter or death triggers that ramp, draw, regrow cards or remove permanents each time Meren brings them back (Sakura-Tribe Elder, Eternal Witness, Shriekmaw) - Self-mill: Effects that dig for lands while dumping creature cards into the graveyard, setting up Meren targets and powering graveyard-count cards (Satyr Wayfinder, Grisly Salvage, Mulch) - Death payoffs: Cards that reward creatures dying with extra cards, lost life or opponents' sacrifices (Skullclamp, Butcher of Malakir, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord) - Graveyard-scaled threats: Creatures and spells that grow or make tokens based on creature cards in the graveyard, turning a stocked yard into a board (Kessig Cagebreakers, Spider Spawning, Bonehoard) - Tokens and finishers: Devour and token makers that feed the sacrifice engine, plus team pump that converts a wide board into lethal (Mycoloth, Overwhelming Stampede, Pathbreaker Ibex)

Plunder the Graves decklist

• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Satyr Wayfinder
• Viridian Emissary
• Wall of Blossoms
• Viridian Zealot
• Korozda Guildmage
• Lotleth Troll
• Blood Bairn
• Phyrexian Rager
• Skullwinder
• Wood Elves
• Eternal Witness
• Corpse Augur
• Centaur Vinecrasher
• Bloodspore Thrinax
• Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• Shriekmaw
• Indrik Stomphowler
• Kessig Cagebreakers
• Banshee of the Dread Choir
• Phyrexian Plaguelord
• Acidic Slime
• Mycoloth
• Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
• Vulturous Zombie
• Great Oak Guardian
• Champion of Stray Souls
• Extractor Demon
• Thief of Blood
• Pathbreaker Ibex
• Cloudthresher
• Butcher of Malakir
• Eater of Hope
• Scourge of Nel Toth
• Caller of the Pack
• Terastodon
• Verdant Force
• Mulch
• Victimize
• Primal Growth
• Ambition's Cost
• Sever the Bloodline
• Barter in Blood
• Rise from the Grave
• Spider Spawning
• Overwhelming Stampede
• Dread Summons
• Altar's Reap
• Tribute to the Wild
• Golgari Charm
• Grisly Salvage
• Putrefy
• Wretched Confluence
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Golgari Signet
• Lightning Greaves
• Thought Vessel
• Bonehoard
• Eldrazi Monument
• Diabolic Servitude
• Command Tower
• Evolving Wilds
• Golgari Guildgate
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Grim Backwoods
• High Market
• Jungle Hollow
• Polluted Mire
• Slippery Karst
• Tainted Wood
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Vivid Grove
• Vivid Marsh
• 4× Swamp
• 3× Swamp
• 3× Swamp
• 3× Swamp
• 3× Forest
• 3× Forest
• 3× Forest
• 3× Forest