Marchesa, Queen of Phyrexia (budget deck)

Commander / EDH Artifact Artificer Attrition Budget Casual Control Modular Sacrifice UBR (Grixis) Value Engine

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Lands (33)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drossforge Bridge
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Glasspool Mimic  ^Flip
• 1x Hagra Mauling  ^Flip
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^Meld
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 2x Island
• 1x Kazuul's Fury  ^Flip
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Mistvault Bridge
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nesting Grounds
• 1x Shadowblood Ridge
• 1x Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Silverbluff Bridge
• 1x Song-Mad Treachery  ^Flip
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Surtland Frostpyre
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum

Sac outlet (13)

• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Audacious Reshapers
• 1x Breya's Apprentice
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Scrapyard Recombiner
• 1x Time Sieve
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Tutor (7)

• 1x Arcum Dagsson
• 1x Fleshwrither
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Kuldotha Forgemaster
• 1x Profane Tutor
• 1x Scrapyard Recombiner

Win condition (3)

• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Time Sieve
• 1x Whispering Specter

Engine (18)

• 1x Arcbound Ravager
• 1x Arcbound Reclaimer
• 1x Breya's Apprentice
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Master Transmuter
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Myr Battlesphere
• 1x Scrapyard Recombiner
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Sparring Construct
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Steel Overseer
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol
• 1x Vigean Graftmage

Card advantage (15)

• 1x Audacious Reshapers
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Breya's Apprentice
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Scarecrone
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thought Monitor
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Salvaging package (10)

• 1x Aether Spellbomb
• 1x Ashnod's Transmogrant
• 1x Necrogen Spellbomb
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Pyrite Spellbomb
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Trickster's Talisman
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Haste enabler (4)

• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Hammer of Purphoros
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Commander (1)

Ramp (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chief Engineer
• 1x Cursed Mirror
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
• 1x Priest of Yawgmoth
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Vedalken Engineer
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Interaction (15)

• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Hope of Ghirapur
• 1x Jokulhaups
• 1x Magmasaur
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Necroplasm
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Whispering Specter
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Recursion (6)

• 1x Academy Ruins
• 1x Arcbound Reclaimer
• 1x Goblin Engineer
• 1x Goblin Welder
• 1x Salvaging Station
• 1x Scarecrone

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Hello people.

This is a budget Marchesa, the Black Rose deck that I've been working on recently. Its artifact based, in more ways than just slamming modular creatures in, with lots of intricate combinations and the ability to pop off and be a real threat. In cardmarket.com, using shopping wizard, can get all the cards in this deck for 140€, which is not the cheapest of the budget edh decks, but is very reasonable. I'm still playtesting it, but the results with the current decklist are making me very happy. Any help is welcome. WIP

+1/+1

Though Marchesa, the Black Rose comes already equiped with a mechanich to put +1/+1 counters on everyone, it isn't the most reliable and being able to get those counters by other means is extremly valuable.

• Unspeakable Symbol: All star in the deck and every Marchesa deck. +1/+1 counters on demand and the ability to reduce your own life total to enable dethrone. Simple and effective.

• Arcbound Ravager: One of the main cards of the deck and one of the more expensive ones. Modular makes the creature virtualy immortal with Marchesa out, can give +1/+1 counters to any other artifact creature, can sacrifice itself in case of tucking/exile, it's a sac outlet for every other artifact in the deck and can make unreasonably large threats. All that for 2 mana.

• Arcbound Reclaimer: Next of the modular creatures, offers great artifact recursión along side all the benefits of modular in this deck.

• Scrapyard Recombiner: Last of the modular creatures and my favorite one at that. Can sac artifacts to tutor for some spicy cards like Thought Monitor, Treasure Keeper and Steel Overseer. But my favorite target is Kuldotha Forgemaster for some sick, game winning, dad and son jokes. Overall a very versatile creature.

• Steel Overseer: Taps and gives every artifact creature a +1/+1 counter. No need to explain anything further.

• Cytoplast Manipulator: Instead of placing more modular creatures in the deck, which most of them are mediocre after the three already included, I favored a second keyword, graft. This one synergizes incredibly well with Marchesa, and makes it's creatures immortal in the same way modular does. And it even gives +1/+1 counters to our non-artifact creatures, which was the big selling point of this creatures. Cytoplast Manipulator in particular is a powerhouse, being able to chain steal enemy creatures without excesive set-up (just Marchesa and a sac outlet most of the time. Add a haste enabler ond go nuts).

• Vigean Graftmage: The other graft creature, being pretty mediocre in most places, in this deck is a powerhouse aswel. I's activated ability allows for the abuse of incredible effects like the ones of Master Transmuter, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Priest of Yawgmoth or Goblin Welder. Insane card in this build.

• Fain, the Broker: I was sceptical about this card at first but playtesting proved me otherwise. Very versatile being able to sac any creature, give +1/+1 counters to anyone and produce a treasure in a pinch if you need it.

• Ashnod's Transmogrant: Part of the Salvaging Station Package, just does its job very well in this deck. Gives +1/+1 counters and makes non-artifact creatures into artifacts, a very valuable effect in the deck.

• Sparring Construct: Gives +1/+1 counters to anyone and easily abusable by Marchesa. Fairly good for a 1 drop.

Intricacies and Toolboxes

This deck features numerous intrincacies and combinations: a small Salvaging Station package, Master Transmuter + Spine of Ish Sah type of shenanigans and a Fleshwrither toolbox. This makes the deck more versatile, more convoluted and overall more fun to pilot for me.

• Salvaging Station package: Versatile, can be throughfully abused in Marchesa since things die frequently and, last but not least, is dirt cheap. Every card not named Wayfarer's Bauble is barely worth the cost of the cardboard they are printed in. But the absolute cheapness of this group of cards doesn't take away how efective they are. Wayfarer's Bauble is a very acceptable ramp card used in plenty of decks without the need of a Salvaging Station, the spellbombs are versatile that can remove a threat on a pinch or replace themself cheaply so they don't clog your hand or make you hate yourself for drawing them without the station, Ashnod's Transmogrant does what this deck needs him to do and Trickster's Talisman is a nice underrated card that can generate a lot of value. Once assembled, Salvaging Station can draw you a ton of cards, bounce every creature your opponents control with Aether Spellbomb, burn them to death with Pyrite Spellbomb or make them discard their hand with Necrogen Spellbomb. Nihil Spellbomb is just efficient repeatable graveyard hate.

• Master Transmuter + Spine of Ish Sah shenanigans: This is not only exclusive for Master Transmuter + Spine of Ish Sah , Goblin Welder and Priest of Yawgmoth are there to abuse Spine of Ish Sah, and Myr Battlesphere and Meteor Golem are there to be abused. Vigean Graftmage and Thousand-Year Elixir just ramps the bs you can do to elven. And all this cards can abuse or be abused by several other cards in the deck just by their nature. This is the engine that won most of the games in playtesting, one of them without even casting Marchesa once.

• Fleshwrither toolbox: This toolbox was easy to incorporate cause Fleshwrither was the only card needed, every other 4 drop was already there and ready to be fetched by him. And the insane part is that he can assemble both of the mention engines by himself, and more! He can get Master Transmuter and Arcum Dagsson, which can get Spine of Ish Sah and Thousand-Year Elixir, or Salvaging Station and any part of the package. Fleshwrither aswel fetches much needed creatures like Aura Thief against enchantments, Cytoplast Manipulator, Solemn Simulacrum, Arcbound Reclaimer and the best sac outlet and one of the stars of the deck Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. Whatever you need, recursion, sac outlet, card draw, ramp, +1/+1 counters, doesn't matter, Fleshwrither will get it for you. And everything else since is very abusable with Marchesa.

Since this is a WIP, more panels will be written in the future, aswel as any update migh happen. My objective is always maintain it below 150€ in cardmarket.com using shopping wizard. Since english is not my main language, there might be errors with spelling and odd grammar.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 50 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.18
Tokens	Copy Clone, Enchantment Golem 3/3 C, Inkling 2/1 WB, Morph 2/2 C, Myr 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Treasure