Marchesa - Dethroning with Style

Commander / EDH Counters Multiplayer UBR (Grixis) Zombie

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Other (36)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x High Market
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Opal Palace
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Ramp (6)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

GYhate (1)

• 1x Agent of Erebos

Recur (1)

• 1x Relentless Dead

Morezombies (13)

• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Descendants' Fury
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Headless Rider
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Reflections of Littjara
• 1x Rise of the Dread Marn
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1x Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Draw (8)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Kindred Discovery
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Control (7)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Necrotic Hex
• 1x Raise the Palisade
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly

Counter (5)

• 1x Feast on the Fallen
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Thran Vigil
• 1x Uncivil Unrest

Commander (1)

Creature (9)

• 1x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Dreadhorde Butcher
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Plague Belcher
• 1x The Scarab God
• 1x Thraximundar
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Vogar, Necropolis Tyrant

Pump (8)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Undead Warchief

Sac (5)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Pyre of Heroes

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Sideboard

Other (1)

• 1x Patriarch's Bidding

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this is a little different take on a marchesa build, still managing to be competetive.

this deck plays zombie cards only, which turn out to synergize very well with her ability. many zombie cards come with a inherent +1/+1 counter synergy: Carrion Feeder, Diregraf Colossus, Noosegraf Mob, Thraximundar, Unbreathing Horde, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed. other flavorful additions with +1/+1 synergy include: Grave Betrayal, Feast on the Fallen, Metallic Mimic in combination with marchesa's ability, this makes for a very strong core package.

this is supported by a lot of tribal cards for card advantage: Vanquisher's Banner , Kindred Discovery , Herald's Horn , Distant Melody plus all the other zombie card advantage cards: Corpse Augur , Cryptbreaker , Custodi Lich , Graveborn Muse helping the deck to almost never run out of steam.

we try to gradually produce more zombies with Open the Graves , Army of the Damned , Diregraf Colossus , Dread Summons , Ghoulcaller Gisa, Grave Titan , Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet and Noosegraf Mob buffing them with Cemetery Reaper , Coat of Arms , Death Baron , Diregraf Captain , Lord of the Accursed , Lord of the Undead , Undead Warchief.

with counters on our zombies and marchesa out we don't care about wrath effects and can attack the lifeleader for a +1/+1 counter on each of our creatures.

in case our creatures end up dying we run a small recursion package. Gisa and Geralf, Patriarch's Bidding, Relentless Dead.

our main way of controling the boardstate include Call to the Grave, Dictate of Erebos, Fleshbag Marauder, Grave Pact utilizing our sac package Priest of Forgotten Gods, Carrion Feeder, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born.

2.2.2024

Date added	9 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 1 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.67
Tokens	Copy Clone, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Berserker 2/2 B
Folders	Want to build, Possible EDH Decks, Commander, cool ideas, Interesting Commander Decks, Marchesa Grixis Zombie Tribal, Ideas (courtesy of others), EDH Decks