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Necropotence

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

Demonic Tutor

Contamination

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Tolaria West

Ok... there are typically two ways of making a Marchesa deck. The first way is to put in a lot of creatures that can get +1/+1 counters easily (like Butcher Ghoul, Carrion Feeder or Unleash/Modular cards). The problem is, these cards hardly do anything other than putting counters on themselves. Their pretty much duds. So to make up for this, people will put in good sac outlets, cards like Mind Slash, Phyrexian Altar, Ashnod's Altar, Altar of Dementia, Attrition etc. This type of deck gets its engine running STRICTLY from it's sac outlets, (NOT FROM ITS CREATURES) and because of this, it is a bit more reliant on it's commander.

The second type of deck is my preferred method of playstyle. Whereby, the deck IS NOT relying on its sac outlets, but rather on the ETB triggers of creatures. With this type of deck, your not fully relying on your commander. Marchesa is just a perk. If you don't have her out, you can still play your creatures and benefit from them.

This is the Marchesa deck that I personally made. You're welcome to look at it for suggestions.

Maleficent

Commander / EDH TheDarkSlayer21

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Some cards that I would highly recommend putting in the deck are:
- Necropotence
- Consecrated Sphinx
- Demonic Tutor
- Diabolic Intent
- Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
- Mind Slash
- Rune-Scarred Demon
- Grave Betrayal
- Sneak Attack
- Thraximundar
- Scourge of the Throne

NOTE: If you do decide to have this deck be a bit more ETB heavy, Deadeye Navigator and Rite of Replication are also good cards to put in.

I would also put in Thalakos Deceiver and a Phyrexian Tower.

Some possible add-ins or upgrades could be Plaguecrafter as it also can hit opponents planeswalkers; Desecrated Tomb for sac fodder; and Goblin Bombardment for another way of dealing more damage with sac fodder.

He joriiiii12345,

Nice to see my old cards have a nice home now ^_^!

Since I came back to magic but cant really play against you right now, I thought I might be able to give some suggestions.

In you recent update you were saying you're thinking about Coalition Relic, this got me thinking about your manaramp. This got me looking at the amount of manaramp cards you're running and their manacosts. In my opinion I would always try to have 10 manaramp cards. Right now your running 9 which includes Chromatic Lantern. But because your commander has a conferted manacost of 4 I suggest running more two manacasting ramp cards, like Coldsteel Heart, Talisman of Creativity, Fellwar Stone and Arcane Signet. I would add two of these, maybe cutting Chromatic Lantern and a non ramp card. this makes it possible to play Marchesa, the Black Rose on turn three. This option is always nice even tho your deck, like you wrote, doesn't always need her.

I would consider adding two more lands (you're running 35) while with an average manacost of 3.44 I would run 37 lands. I would also change some basic lands around to get your manacolor circle diagram a little better.

As for carddraw, I would consider adding two more. You're currently running 8, I would try to moke this 10 to make the deck more consistent. Have you considered Baleful Strix? This a nice carddraw effect in the deck, easy to use in the early turns. It even has a nice flying deathtough body! Apart from that consider running Windfall and Fact or Fiction. both have the added benefit of filling the yard. Which would make adding Dread Return even better.

I would also consider running one or more extra targeted removal spells/ counter spells. to help against the possible graveyard hate (which I will run next time!).

Apart from these small changes the deck looks great! but you wrote you didn't like the expensive tutors. maybe consider adding Scheming Symmetry and Wishclaw Talisman. Both are cheap, fair and have the added benefit of some nice politicking!

I'm hitting myself for saying this but, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is a nice fit for the deck. the combo with Zealous Conscripts, but even apart from that the copy it makes can give you more etb effect and sacrifice fodder. Which makes it a very nice addition to the deck.

I hope some of these suggestions won't make it into the deck just because, I will have to play against it. But even if they will, looking forward to playing again!

P.S. I think you're missing a card (current cards: 99).

P.S.S. You're maybe board has some duplicates :)