Marchesa's Fun-Time Muder-Suicide by user4633865

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, the Black Rose

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a resilient Grixis aristocrats engine commanded by Marchesa, the Black Rose. It leverages dethrone, +1/+1 counter placement, and sacrifice outlets to recur value creatures on every player's end step. By combining recursive sacrifice loops with ETB and death triggers, the deck generates card advantage, strips opposing boards through repeatable edicts, and drains life totals. Mana rocks accelerate early setup, enabling Marchesa to land on turn 3 or 4. Once creatures gain counters through combat, Unspeakable Symbol, or Gev, Scaled Scorch, the board becomes immune to standard destroy wipes. Opponents are locked down through repeating sacrifices from Plaguecrafter and Accursed Marauder or noncreature negation via Glen Elendra Archmage. The deck converts board control into victory through Blood Artist, Marionette Apprentice, Goblin Bombardment, or direct burst from Flayer of the Hatebound and Murderous Redcap.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Big Mother Mouser
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blitzball Stadium
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Bloodtracker
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Circuit Mender
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir
  • 1 Dreadhorde Butcher
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fain, the Broker
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ferrous Lake
  • 1 Flayer of the Hatebound
  • 1 Gev, Scaled Scorch
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Guild Artisan
  • 1 Guildmages' Forum
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Iron Apprentice
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marchesa, the Black Rose
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mold Folk
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Murderous Redcap
  • 1 Myr Scrapling
  • 1 Nesting Grounds
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Ripples of Potential
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
  • 1 Scorn-Blade Berserker
  • 1 Seething Landscape
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Skyclave Shadowcat
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thran Vigil
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unspeakable Symbol
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voldaren Thrillseeker
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan