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Commander / EDH*

LukeWhitlow

Instant (8)

• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Foil
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Thwart
• 1x Time Stop
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (7)

• 1x All is Dust
• 1x Chain Reaction
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Repay in Kind

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Artifact (9)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Astral Cornucopia
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Power Conduit
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Spawning Pit
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Creature (39)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Body Double
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Cytoplast Manipulator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Deathbringer Thoctar
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Falkenrath Aristocrat
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Heap Doll
• 1x Helium Squirter
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Novijen Sages
• 1x Olivia Voldaren
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Riftwing Cloudskate
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sire Of Insanity
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Spellskite
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Urabrask the Hidden
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Vigean Graftmage
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (33)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x High Market
• 5x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Mirrodin's Core
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 5x Swamp
• 1x Tolaria West
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Volcanic Island

Commander (1)

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Instant (1)

• 1x Sudden Spoiling

Creature (10)

• 1x Barrin, Master Wizard
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Kheru Bloodsucker
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Palinchron
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Stalking Vengeance
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Land (1)

• 1x Phyrexian Tower

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A Marchesa control build suitable for most EDH variants.

Graft, undying and persist, as well as a few +1/+1 counter distributors combine with Marchesa to ensure the creatures will keep coming back. Several sac outlets provide recursion when attacking isn't enough.

There are about 60 cards that make up the core of this deck and enable the recursion engine, with 40 variable cards that can be switched out to create a more controlling or aggro deck based on the requirements of the game. The idea is that Marchesa can be a deck for any position in a usurper game of EDH.

This build does not rely on dethroning, so life gain/drain is a good option to stay at a healthy life total, it has a light mana base and relies on early tutors getting out a Trinket Mage to pave the way to a host of ETB 5 drops. A few solid board sweeping effects can end the game easily when all the creatures reenter the battlefield.

I haven't included any true infinite combos or unfair recursion effects, the goal here is to have a versatile and interactive game for maximum fun. There isn't a lot of disruption, so any opposing decks are likely to get a solid foothold before the real shenanigans start to happen.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	10 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 11 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	4.09
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Bird 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C
Folders	Marchesa, EDH 26 Decks