The Marchesa Deck I Never Built

Commander / EDH UBR (Grixis)

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Creature (36)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Callous Bloodmage
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Chasm Skulker
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Fain, the Broker
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Judith, the Scourge Diva
• 1x Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Siren Stormtamer
• 1x Skyclave Shadowcat
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Karn's Bastion
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Tyrite Sanctum
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Instant (9)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Terminate

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Agadeem's Awakening  ^Flip
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Vandalblast

Enchantment (3)

• 1x Feast on the Fallen
• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

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I told my friends I was going to build a Marchesa, the Black Rose deck and I guess I just never did???

Here it is! I've built it. Like for real!

SO, this deck wants to flood the board with value creatues and load them with +1/+1 counters. These creatures take part in a long-term attrition game plan. When they die with our commander on board they'll be getting brought back to the battlefield at the end step, that makes it extremely difficult for my opponents to remove key creatures or combo pieces and. Add in a bunch of other recursive elements and we've got ourselves a game plan. In the building of this deck I decided to add a few pet cards or cards I've never resolved in a game before. A few examples found in the new cards from Strixhaven like Callous Bloodmage and Plumb the Forbidden. There are also a few spells in this deck like Gamble that I've never cast or Massacre Wurm which aren't the greatest but are troopers! I'm planning on adding a Vedalken Orrery effect at some point (maybe Leyline of Anticipation because it's like 5 bucks and I have one laying around) so that I can sneak wins with my creature strategy at instant speed.

I think this deck is a lot fun and won't make you lose friends at the table :)

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 32 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.92
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Inkling 2/1 WB, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Pest 1/1 BG, Squid 1/1 U, Treasure