Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Gameplan

Flood the board with cheap nontoken artifacts, then tap them with Meria to ramp into green mana and to exile-and-play cards off the top, generating explosive card advantage in colors that normally lack it. You chain artifacts and rituals into a big payoff turn that overwhelms the table with mana and impulse draw.

Key Cards

• Voltaic Key — Untaps an artifact to double up on Meria activations for more mana and impulse draws.
• Unwinding Clock — Untaps all your artifacts every turn, letting you tap them again on each opponent's turn for absurd value.
• Inspiring Statuary — Improvise lets you tap artifacts for spells while still leaving Meria's abilities open via overlap of resources.
• Sensei's Divining Top — A free nontoken artifact that fixes the top of your library so Meria's exile ability hits gas.
• Etali, Primal Conqueror — A premier GR payoff for all the mana Meria generates and a game-ending impulse engine itself.
• Mycosynth Lattice — Turns every permanent into an artifact, supercharging Meria's mana and exile activations.

Upgrade Path

Add untap enablers (Unwinding Clock, Voltaic Key, Clock of Omens) and mana-positive rocks to build toward infinite-mana loops, then include a clean payoff like Walking Ballista or Comet Storm. Tighten the artifact base toward cheap, mana-positive pieces and top-deck manipulation (Sensei's Divining Top, scry effects) so impulse draws never whiff. Prioritize protecting Meria with haste enablers and recursion since the deck collapses without her.