Criminally good spellslinger by Balazs360

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger Burn strategy commanded by Marchesa, Dealer of Death. The core game plan focuses on casting efficient, low-mana instant and sorcery interaction that commits crimes against opponents, triggering Marchesa's ability to filter through the library, fill the graveyard, and maintain a full hand. As the game develops, cost reducers like Stormcatch Mentor and mana generators like Storm-Kiln Artist enable explosive storm turns. Damage multipliers including Fiery Inscription, Erebor Flamesmith, Veyran, Voice of Duality, and Ashling, Flame Dancer convert every cast into substantial direct damage across the table. Late-game haymakers such as Thousand-Year Storm, Mana Geyser, Furygale Flocking, and Surge to Victory provide overwhelming closing power to eliminate all three opponents in rapid succession.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aether Gale
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Ashling, Flame Dancer
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra, Hope's Beacon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Annihilation
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forum Necroscribe
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Furygale Flocking
  • 1 Gandalf the Grey
  • 1 Get Out
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Hall of Oracles
  • 1 Improvisation Capstone
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jace Reawakened
  • 1 Lazav, Familiar Stranger
  • 1 Magma Opus
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Marchesa, Dealer of Death
  • 1 Melancholic Poet
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pigment Wrangler // Striking Palette
  • 1 Plargg and Nassari
  • 1 Precise Redaction
  • 1 Prismari Charm
  • 1 Prismari Command
  • 1 Prismari Pianist
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Quistis Trepe
  • 1 Qutrub Forayer
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Room of Refuge
  • 1 Rootha, Mastering the Moment
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Scorched Geyser
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Siege Smash
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcatch Mentor
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summon: G.F. Cerberus
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surge to Victory
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Thousand-Year Storm
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Turbulent Springs
  • 1 Uldaros Theorix
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Wisdom of Ages