Yeah protein Hulk would be a solid choice for this deck and I would run it but as it's known for its combos within CEDH I feel it would create too much of a target on the deck.
Don't forget! On your meren plays, when you get the commander on the table, Viscera Seer can Sac itself, you push a Exp Counter and it get back into play in the same turn with meren! Cankerbloom is also awesome, you can pay 1 to sac it with meren in play, and even if you have no Exp counters, you can choose to Proliferate, it goes to the stack, then meren trigger before proliferate resolves, letting you get that Exp Counter, and then resolve proliferate and add another one. If you do it in your main phase, thats enough to bring back the cankerbloom in your endstep and repeat, you got youself 4 Exp counters in a single turn!
Little off topic but you seem to know alot if I put lightning greaves on a creature if won't prevent+1 counters or say ezuri experience counters ? Thanks
lightning greaves gives 'Shroud' which means equipped creature can't be target of anything (spells, abilities) that includes by you as well as your opponents. If a card or effect says give all creatures +1+1 counter it won't change anything. If the card/ability says give 'Target' creature a +1+1 counter lightning greaves says no you can't target this creature because I'm giving it 'Shroud'. As for experience counters that goes on you the player not a creature so lightning greaves has no bearing on that even if equipped to Meren. So even if Meren or Ezuri you have the experience counters on yourself the player.
@@Spencer4686 I made a deck very similar to your meren deck it's pretty good maybe one day you can do one for ezuri I'm building him now he seems like he will be fun
@@keithmahler4236 Ezuri claw of progress? if so very nice i use to have a ezuri deck considered putting it back together the other day actually. love me some +1+1 counters 👌
Gray, merchant of asphodel (Gary). Is a card from the Theros setting. It's a great reanimation target to help you stabilise, or accelerate ahead in a game and is a fantastic choice in a Mikeaus, Yawgmoth combo loop.
I tried the combo with yaw mik and gray but it doesn't seem to work bc I could not figure out how to stop gray from getting the +1 counter being he's not human so he could have the undying any help thanks
I have a combo video coming out soon. But here's a brief explanation. Activate Yawgmoth pay 1 life sac gray merchant. EDIT: declare target of the effect on a 2nd creature (the -1/-1 counter) Mikaeus triggers bringing back the gray merchant as he's non-human Resolve the Yawgmoth trigger now. Activate Yawgmoth sac the 2nd creature and target Gray Merchant with the -1/-1 counter. Mikaeus triggers bringing back the other non human creature with undying. Look at the placement of the colon in Yawgmoth ability, you pay the activation cost then do the resolution due to how the stack works Mikaeus trigger jumps on top because of the death trigger. EDIT: this is true but you need to declare the Yawgmoth target first so a 2nd creature (with undying) is needed to make a complete loop. Hope that helps
@@Spencer4686 I don't believe that works because Mikaeus gives Gary undying, and since undying uses the stack, it will come back after Yawgmoth declares a target for the -1/-1 counter. You need to bounce the -1/-1 counters back and forth between Gary and another creature. (yes, I know that's super easy to do, but it is just another step)
You are indeed correct, my apologies this comes down to when you declare the target of yagmoth's ability - when the tigger goes on the stack. Gray Merchant won't be there as he was part of the cost. so you would need to bounce between two creatures. Good catch, thank you!
@@keithmahler4236 okay I see what's happening here. +1/+1 is a static buff from mik, it's not a counter. It's an anthem or static pump effect. Does that help clarify?
The V(value) E(engine) part was added because of Maren herself back in the day for a lot of people, but mostly because Golgari reanimator players always ran him for insane value AND MOST STILL DO. 😅 now you know some community mtg lore!
