Marchesa Steals yo Stuff

Commander / EDH* Counters Sacrifice UBR (Grixis) Unleash

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Creature (31)

• 1x Blood Tyrant
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carnival Hellsteed
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Chaos Imps
• 1x Corpse Blockade
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Exava, Rakdos Blood Witch
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Flesh Carver
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Necropolis Regent
• 1x Oathsworn Knight
• 1x Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Pyreheart Wolf
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Simic Fluxmage
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Splatter Thug
• 1x Thraximundar
• 1x Viscera Seer

Land (40)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 3x Island
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 3x Mountain
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 3x Swamp
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Transguild Promenade
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Act of Treason
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Foresee
• 1x Mark of Mutiny
• 1x Press into Service
• 1x Slave of Bolas

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Barrage of Expendables
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol *f-pre*

Instant (6)

• 1x Act of Aggression
• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Cyclonic RiftGC
• 1x Perilous Research
• 1x Spinal Embrace
• 1x Undying Evil

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The idea is to utilize +1/+1 counters and Marchesa's third ability to get free value from sacrifice effects. If marchesa is out, you want to be sacrificing your own creatures almost non-stop, because Marchesa will just let those creatures come back. There are many acts of treason effects in the deck, because if you can steal an opponents creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it, and then sacrifice it, that creature will return to the battlefield under your permanent control. Enchantments wile unspeakable symbol and attrition really shine, and meager creatures like carrion feeder and pyreheart wolf turn into absolute monsters. Life total is preferred to be maintained lower than the opponent, so shocklands, painlands, and other life costs are heavily used in the deck. As long as Marchesa is on the battlefield, most of your creatures are very resilient to "destroy" board wipes like Nevinyrral's Disk. Notice that Marchesa's resurrect ability will trigger on herself if she is destroyed, and will also trigger on all creatures that die at the same time as her.

Although this deck performs very well in its current state, it is comprised of cards that I own only, so there is a lot of room for improvement in the manabase and in the creature selection.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.57
Tokens	Horror */* B, Morph 2/2 C