New Untitled Deck by JaratFitch

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a specialized Grixis tribal midrange build that pairs the recursive resilience of Marchesa, the Black Rose with the unique mechanics of the 9 Nazgûl and The Lord of the Rings Ring-temptation suite. The game plan focuses on casting an early Nazgûl to initiate Ring tempts, growing all Wraiths whenever the Ring tempts you, and deploying Marchesa to ensure every creature with a +1/+1 counter continuously returns from the graveyard on end steps. It converts combat into an unblockable, evasive attrition engine supported by powerful value engines like The One Ring, Call of the Ring, and Lord of the Nazgûl. While supported by high-tier mana fixing and premium free interaction spells like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat, the deck relies primarily on fair combat steps to close out the game, making it vulnerable to well-timed mass graveyard exile or non-destroy board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bog Wraith
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canoptek Wraith
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dreaded Bat-Cloud
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Horses of the Bruinen
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Odylic Wraith
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rohirrim Lancer
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll of Isildur
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stone of Erech
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
  • 1 Xander's Lounge