Marchesa 5-10 by Blade

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

Marchesa, the Black Rose commands a resilient Grixis Aristocrats engine centered on +1/+1 counters and end-step graveyard recursion. By leveraging dethrone, Unspeakable Symbol, and low-cost sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Goblin Bombardment, the deck establishes a loop where creatures die with counters and return to the battlefield at the beginning of every end step. This turns death triggers into a recurring value stream that operates across each player's turn. The deck transitions from setup to lethal pressure on Turn 5 by deploying asymmetric attrition pieces like Grave Pact and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, alongside explosive finishers such as Flayer of the Hatebound and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. With Marchesa recurring creatures four times per round table rotation, opponents' boards are repeatedly cleared while their life totals are drained to zero by Turn 7. The deck maintains high resilience through counterspells, redirection, and backup win conditions like Bolas's Citadel and Mikaeus, the Unhallowed.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, Widow of the Realm // Ayara, Furnace Queen
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cytoplast Manipulator
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Drannith Ruins
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Esper Panorama
  • 1 Feast on the Fallen
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Guildmages' Forum
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Industrial Advancement
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scorn-Blade Berserker
  • 1 Seize the Spotlight
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thundering Raiju
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zealous Conscripts