Meria, Scholar of Antiquity

Strategy & Gameplay

This legendary elf artificer from Dominaria United offers versatile utility that rewards players for building around artifacts, making it an excellent inclusion for decks that naturally generate token artifacts or run a critical mass of artifact permanents. At just three mana for a 3/3 body with two powerful activated abilities, Meria presents strong early-game value while scaling into the mid and late game where her effects become increasingly impactful. The first ability provides consistent mana acceleration by tapping untapped nontoken artifacts to generate green mana, which accelerates your game plan and helps fuel expensive plays. The second ability, which requires tapping two untapped nontoken artifacts, offers card advantage by letting you exile and play cards from the top of your library, essentially giving you additional draw that synergizes perfectly with artifact-heavy strategies. This dual functionality makes Meria particularly attractive in artifact-focused decks such as Urza-style strategies, go-wide token decks, or any strategy that benefits from Construct or servo token generators. Her flexibility means she fits comfortably into pioneer, modern, and legacy builds, while also being a strong inclusion in commander for decks built around Breya, Jhoira, or other artifact commanders. The card's broad format legality across historic, timeless, gladiator, and beyond ensures accessibility for competitive and casual players alike. Players seeking incremental advantage engines combined with mana acceleration should seriously consider adding Meria to their artifact strategies.