Machines Never Die by Cosmiceffect

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Marchesa, the Black Rose leads a modular-artifact deck built around +1/+1 counters and the graveyard. The primary plan is to assemble the deterministic loop of Arcbound Ravager, Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and Animation Module, then close with Altar of Dementia, Molten Gatekeeper, or All Will Be One. The secondary plan is tempo combat: Marchesa's dethrone grows every attacker, and her death trigger returns countered creatures each end step, while modular creatures feed the board. There is no double-faced commander or hidden commander; Marchesa is an enabler and defensive engine rather than a combo piece, and the deck can function without casting her.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animation Module
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbound Condor
  • 1 Arcbound Hybrid
  • 1 Arcbound Overseer
  • 1 Arcbound Ravager
  • 1 Arcbound Reclaimer
  • 1 Arcbound Slasher
  • 1 Arcbound Slith
  • 1 Arcbound Stinger
  • 1 Arcbound Tracker
  • 1 Arcbound Worker
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Canoptek Spyder
  • 1 Cauldron of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Enthusiastic Mechanaut
  • 1 Etherium Sculptor
  • 1 Foundry Inspector
  • 1 Fugitive Droid
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Goblin Welder
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 1 Iron Spider, Stark Upgrade
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Molten Gatekeeper
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Nardole, Resourceful Cyborg
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scrapyard Recombiner
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shimmer Myr
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spellskite
  • 1 Spirebluff Canal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Steel Overseer
  • 1 Surge Conductor
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tarrian's Soulcleaver
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Throne of Geth
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Ultron, Artificial Malevolence
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Uthros, Titanic Godcore
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth