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Merieke Ri Berit

Merieke Ri Berit

Legendary Creature — Human · {W}{U}{B} · Black/Blue/White commander

Merieke Ri Berit doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Gain control of target creature for as long as you control Merieke Ri Berit. When Merieke Ri Berit leaves the battlefield or becomes untapped, destroy that creature. It can't be regenerated.
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What Merieke Ri Berit actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Merieke Ri Berit deck needs

Plays as theft. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Merieke Ri Berit deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Merieke Ri Berit

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Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Freed from the Real3 mana
  2. Pemmin's Aura3 mana
  3. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  4. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  5. Unstoppable Plan3 mana
  6. Genji Glove5 mana
  7. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  8. White Plume Adventurer3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. Reality Shift2 mana
  4. Pongify1 mana
  5. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  6. Resculpt2 mana
  7. Defile1 mana
  8. Tragic Slip1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Damn2 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  4. Damnation4 mana
  5. Supreme Verdict4 mana
  6. Wrath of God4 mana
  7. Day of Judgment4 mana
  8. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Mystic Remora1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Gold-Forged Thopteryx2 mana
  4. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  5. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  6. Coppercoat Vanguard2 mana
  7. General's Enforcer2 mana
  8. Lost in the Maze2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Azorius Signet2 mana
  3. Dimir Signet2 mana
  4. Orzhov Signet2 mana
  5. Palladium Myr3 mana
  6. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  7. Chrome Mox0 mana
  8. Everflowing Chalice0 mana

Combos with Merieke Ri Berit

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Merieke Ri Berit is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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