The Resilient Black Rose

Commander / EDH Aristocrats Budget Casual Counters UBR (Grixis) Value Engine

Milkspy

Creature (28)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Impaler Shrike
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Zealous Conscripts
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Thraximundar
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Instant (6)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Crosis's Charm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Negate

Land (37)

• 4x Island
• 6x Mountain
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Guildmages' Forum
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Sorcery (9)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Mark of Mutiny
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Windfall

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Sword of Truth and Justice
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Feast on the Fallen
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Shifting Shadow
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

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Sideboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Helium Squirter
• 1x Mer-Ek Nightblade
• 1x Pyreheart Wolf
• 1x Reef Worm
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War

Land (6)

• 1x Caldera Lake
• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Highland Lake
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Ambition's Cost
• 1x Ancient Craving

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Grave Betrayal

Artifact (1)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel

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This is my budget Marchesa, the Black Rose deck. It focusses on playing with +1/+1 counters, making the deck really resilient to (mass)removal. It's a budget deck which I want to keep it that way, though it's always open for suggestions without increasing the budget too much!

The deck is a blast to play versus other budget decks, when playing to more advanced decks it falls behind in removal and board control, but the synergy of this deck always surprises people I play against. In this deck getting quick +1/+1 counters is really easy to do, which means marchesa will protect those creatures when they die. The deck has creates a lot of value with ETB and die triggers, such as Mulldrifter , which you can play for it's Evoke cost and give it a +1/+1 counter with some kind of graft creature or Unspeakable Symbol and let it come back at the end step. this will let you draw atleast 2 cards on each turn! Creatures with undying such as Flayer of the Hatebound come back atleast 2 times each turn, for great value! There's even one unintentional combo inside which is Ashnod's Altar + Flayer of the Hatebound + Sage of Fables for infinite damage.

If you like it feel free to +1, and again suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Ashnod's Altar + Flayer of the Hatebound + Sage of Fables
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 1 Mythic Rares 30 - 6 Rares 32 - 6 Uncommons 13 - 5 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.30
Tokens	Fish 3/3 U, Goblin 1/1 R, Kraken 9/9 U, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure, Whale 6/6 U
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