Card
Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Mana cost {2}{B}{G}
Legendary Creature — Human Shaman 3/4
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 1 known combo. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · C15 · #49
- Cheapest printing
- €1.98
- EDHREC salt
- 0.74
- Color identity
- Black, Green
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo.
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth + Coretapper + Magistrate's Scepter
Produces: Infinite turns, Lock
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If a creature card in your graveyard has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
Experience counters are the second kind of counters a player can have, joining poison. - 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
Each game pack includes a card labeled “Experience” with the suggestion “Place your experience counters here.” This card isn’t required for play. It’s simply a convenient spot to put your experience counters, which can be represented with dice, glass beads, or other small items. - 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If Meren of Clan Nel Toth leaves the battlefield at the same time as other creatures you control die, its first ability will trigger for each of those creatures. - 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
You can’t choose to put the creature card into your hand if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have as the ability resolves. - 2015-11-04 · Wizards of the Coast
All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast