Evil Cowgirl Control by user3739269

Format: Commander

Commander: Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Spellslinger and Crime engine led by Marchesa, Dealer of Death. The primary strategy focuses on committing crimes each turn cycle by targeting opponents and their permanents with efficient interaction, zero-cost artifacts like Glasses of Urza, and cheap burn spells. Each crime triggers Marchesa, allowing you to pay one mana to filter through the top two cards of your library, putting one into your hand and the other into your graveyard. This steady card selection fuels your graveyard for recursion cards like Underworld Breach, Kess, Dissident Mage, and Reanimate. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition on Turn 6 by utilizing Storm-Kiln Artist alongside Haze of Rage with Buyback or Underworld Breach with Dark Ritual and Grapeshot, generating infinite storm count, infinite Treasure mana, and game-ending burn damage across all three opponents. Alternatively, token engines like Gisa, the Hellraiser and Bria, Riptide Rogue provide wide combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 At Knifepoint
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Hustler
  • 1 Bria, Riptide Rogue
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cormela, Glamour Thief
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deepmuck Desperado
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glasses of Urza
  • 1 Goblin Electromancer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Haze of Rage
  • 1 Hellspur Posse Boss
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Intimidation Campaign
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Laughing Jasper Flint
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Marchesa, Dealer of Death
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rattleback Apothecary
  • 1 Raven of Fell Omens
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Seize the Secrets
  • 1 Servant of the Stinger
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Slickshot Lockpicker
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thought Scour
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unexpected Request
  • 1 Vial Smasher, Gleeful Grenadier
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Watery Grave