Marchesa, the Black Rose (Competitive)

Commander / EDH Aggro Combo Competitive UBR (Grixis)

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Instant (12)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Pyroblast
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Apocalypse
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gitaxian Probe
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Time Warp
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Goblin Bombardment
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Stranglehold
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Artifact (8)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Creature (28)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Chittering Rats
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Flesh-Eater Imp
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Goblin Settler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Greater Gargadon
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Oona's Blackguard
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Phantasmal Image
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Vendilion Clique
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (37)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Barbarian Ring
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Pit
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Cephalid Coliseum
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x High Market
• 2x Island
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 2x Swamp
• 1x Tarnished Citadel
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Commander (1)

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Maybeboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Stranglehold

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Marchesa, the Black Rose

An aggresive value-based aggro deck with three resilient alternative win-conditions, namely Apocalypse, Hatred and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. Feel free to leave behind a comment and or make suggestions on the deck.

Tutors:

• Tolaria West -> Pact of Negation, Mana Crypt, Hall of the Bandit Lord , Strip Mine or Phyrexian Tower
• Mystical Tutor -> Pyroblast, Mana Drain, Force of Will, Hatred , Toxic Deluge, Living Death or Apocalypse
• Entomb -> Almost always gets Anger, This can also fuel a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker combo before casting Living Death, a black card for Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed or an instant or sorcery for Snapcaster Mage
• Imperial Recruiter -> One of the best cards in the deck, being able to get Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and combo out is really strong, also gets Snapcaster Mage, Oona's Blackguard, Fulminator Mage, Glen Elendra Archmage, Flesh-Eater Imp or Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Vampiric Tutor
• Demonic Tutor

Sacrifice outlets:

• High Market
• Phyrexian Tower
• Viscera Seer
• Pyroblast, if you are not playing against a blue deck, you can use this to blow up one of your own blue creatures.
• Goblin Bombardment
• Greater Gargadon

Mass destruction/Bounce :

• Cyclonic Rift
• Toxic Deluge
• Living Death
• Apocalypse

Apocalypse win :

Apocalypse is a very misunderstood card, on the face of it it would seem like you are putting your opponents ahead by discarding your hand, while everyone else are going to keep theirs. The truth however is very far from this.

The way you want to cast Apocalypse is by setting it up. Creatures in your graveyard are unaffected by Apocalypse. This means that you can sacrifice your creatures to a sac-engine, cast Apocalypse, and get them all back at the next end-step due to Marchesa's 2nd ability.

A resolved Apocalypse using this kind of set up should pretty much win the game on the spot.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker win :

This deck has multiple way's of comboing off out of nowhere with either Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts

Imperial Recruiter + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker gets you your pestermite to untap kiki and start making copies again.

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Sidisi, Undead Vizier does the same thing.

Imperial Recruiter + Sneak Attack or Sneak Attack + Sidisi, Undead Vizier can tutor or put recruiter into play, which gets kiki, sneak Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker into play copying Imperial Recruiter tutoring up Pestermite. Put that into play with the sneak attack, and you got the combo at a great discount and uncounterable!

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Pestermite Imperial Recruiter + Sneak Attack Imperial Recruiter + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Sidisi, Undead Vizier Sidisi, Undead Vizier + Sneak Attack
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 52 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C
Folders	Commander EDH, Interesting Brews, try it out, Will make eventually, EDH, Potential Buys, Grixis