Persona by user8744927

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Marchesa, the Black Rose deck is an aristocrats and steal-and-sacrifice midrange strategy designed to exploit creature recursion and death triggers. By combining Marchesa’s dethrone ability with sacrifice outlets, the deck turns temporary theft effects into permanent creature acquisitions. When you steal an opponent’s creature, put a +1/+1 counter on it via combat dethrone or instant-speed enablers like Unspeakable Symbol, and sacrifice it, Marchesa’s triggered ability returns that card to the battlefield under your control at the next end step. The deck uses resilient sacrifice outlets like Yahenni, Undying Partisan and Phyrexian Altar alongside asymmetric attrition engines like Grave Pact to lock creature-dependent strategies out of the game. High-synergy draw engines such as Danny Pink and Grim Haruspex keep your hand full of interaction and theft spells. The deck closes games through compounded combat damage with Uncivil Unrest, unblockable attacks with Herald of Secret Streams, or repeated graveyard burn from Flayer of the Hatebound.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Captivating Crew
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Coercive Recruiter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Danny Pink
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dominus of Fealty
  • 1 Don Andres, the Renegade
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Geyadrone Dihada
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Betrayal
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Helm of Possession
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Karn's Bastion
  • 1 Keiga, the Tide Star
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mark of Mutiny
  • 1 Massacre Girl, Known Killer
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Molten Primordial
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nathan Drake, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rakdos, the Muscle
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scorn-Blade Berserker
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sower of Temptation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 The Golden Throne
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Thundering Raiju
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xander's Lounge
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zara, Renegade Recruiter
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts