Fuel the Marchesa Engine

Commander / EDH* Aggro Combo Midrange UBR (Grixis)

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Creature (43)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Aura Thief
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Callous Bloodmage
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Combat Celebrant
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Disciple of Bolas
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Drana, Liberator of Malakir
• 1x Ertai Resurrected
• 1x Flayer of the Hatebound
• 1x Fulminator Mage
• 1x Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Immersturm Predator
• 1x Imperial Recruiter
• 1x Iron Apprentice
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Kitesail Larcenist
• 1x Mayhem Devil
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Olivia, Mobilized for War
• 1x Phyrexian Metamorph
• 1x Profaner of the Dead
• 1x River Kelpie
• 1x Sage of Fables
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Sower of Temptation
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Terror of the Peaks
• 1x Thought Sponge
• 1x Venser, Shaper Savant
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Voldaren Thrillseeker
• 1x Woe Strider
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Land (36)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Canyon Slough
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Fiery Islet
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x High Market
• 1x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Instant (4)

• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Demonic Tutor

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Creature (9)

• 1x Avalanche Riders
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Filth
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Iron Apprentice
• 1x Marton Stromgald
• 1x Sygg, River Cutthroat

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Fervor

Artifact (1)

• 1x The Ozolith

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Create huge card advantage by abusing ETB/LTB/Dies effects while beating your opponent's face in with powerful beaters such as Marton Stromgald.

Sneak Attack is ridiculous with Marchesa as you get 2 ETB triggers, 1 LTB/die trigger, and all for a single red mana. Dimir House Guard is usually used to fetch it.

Weaknesses: Graveyard hate is extremely brutal and shuts off a lot of our card advantage. However you can usually outrace the RIP/Scavenging Ooze/Mimic Vat player and still have enough resources to kill off the other guy.

Control can also be a bitch, so make sure you kill any control/combo player as fast as possible. Marchesa excels in creature matchups (as you don't lose anything in trades) but can't really stop combo/control that well.

Combos:

Zealous Conscripts + Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is an infinite combo

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + River Kelpie + sac outlet to draw infinite cards/infinite death triggers/infinite sac fodder/infinite coloured mana with Phyrexian Altar

The infinite sac fodder lets you go infinite power on Carrion Feeder The infinite mana lets you draw your deck to find Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker + Zealous Conscripts

Sidisi, Undead Vizier + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Marchesa, the Black Rose tutors two cards from your deck every turn

Date added	9 years
Last updated	5 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 55 - 0 Rares 16 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.09
Tokens	Copy Clone, Goat 0/1 W, Pest 1/1 BG, Treasure
Folders	Combo