Seen here in its Modern Horizons printing. Spore Frog, one of the cards in this Commander deck for Magic: The Gathering. If you can manage to be the only other of two players left in the game, with a Spore Frog available to you, you're practically untouchable. By sacrificing it you keep combat damage off of you for one turn (be wary of this in multiplayer scenarios!). For one green mana, the cutest Frog in Magic: The Gathering can be resurrected as early as the same turn Meren enters play, all setup considered. Spore Frog is one of the cards that comes to the forefront of most Meren players' heads when they think of the commander's creatures.

So, here are a few of the cards we have added to our version of a Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck. With that capability, you can devote much of your deck to sacrificial shenanigans and other synergies. The ability to get a new creature back every end step is prolific, even if it ends up simply going back to your hand (but it probably will just go back into play, if we're being frank). If you can't reanimate a creature you can at least do a decent impression of Raise Dead. With these counters, you are in turn able to summon increasingly powerful and impactful creatures from your graveyard, relative to your experience counter count versus the mana value of the creature you wish to resurrect. It doesn't matter how those creatures die, however, so they can be sacrificed to fuel other abilities if need be. These counters occur whenever a creature you control other than Meren dies. Meren of Clan Nel Toth is a black-green commander who thrives on a cropping up of experience counters. You can find the deck list we are referring to in this article by clicking here.

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