Long Live The Queen by crimshawts1

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Marchesa, the Black Rose leads a Grixis +1/+1-counter value engine built around dethrone attacks, sacrifice outlets, and graveyard recursion. The primary plan is to accumulate counters, sacrifice creatures with counters, and let Marchesa return them at the end step, generating death triggers, card draw, and pings via Flayer of the Hatebound. Theft synergies (Cytoplast Manipulator, Grave Betrayal, Seize the Spotlight) convert enemy creatures into additional resources. Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate acts as a hidden commander, providing repeatable recursion on attack. The deck wins through incremental combat damage, unblockable counter creatures, and multi-opponent damage from Thundering Raiju and Goblin Bombardment.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chasm Skulker
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cytoplast Manipulator
  • 1 Dack's Duplicate
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Ingenious Prodigy
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Last One Standing
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mark of Mutiny
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Military Intelligence
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Thundering Raiju
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan