Take Your Heart ($300 Budget)

Commander / EDH* Control Cruel Control Theme/Gimmick UBR (Grixis)

newdarkcloud

Land (37)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x High Market
• 4x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 5x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Temple of Malice
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Crag
• 1x Vivid Creek
• 1x Vivid Marsh

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Attrition
• 1x Corrupted Conscience
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Unspeakable Symbol

Creature (18)

• 1x Agent of Treachery
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Bloodtracker
• 1x Captivating Crew
• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Clever Impersonator
• 1x Dack's Duplicate
• 1x Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Herald of Secret Streams
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Keiga, the Tide Star
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thalakos Deceiver
• 1x Thief of Sanity
• 1x Viscera Seer

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blatant Thievery
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Last One Standing
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Slave of Bolas
• 1x Vandalblast

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1x Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Instant (10)

• 1x Act of Aggression
• 1x Bedevil
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Desertion
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Reality Shift
• 1x Spinal Embrace
• 1x Swan Song

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A deck based on an old favorite of mine: Marchesa, the Black Rose. The idea is to abuse her two abilities in a unique way... Theft.

Specifically, turning Act of Treason effects from single-turn control spells into long-lasting, permanent control of your opponent's best creatures and tools.

The loop is thus:

1.) Marchesa is on the board. 2.) Take control of an opponent's creature. 3.) Swing in with it, giving it a +1/+1 counter with Marchea's Dethrone effect. 4.) Sacrifice the creature, or otherwise find some way to kill it. 5.) Since it died on your board with a +1/+1 counter on it, it will revive on your board at the end of the turn. You will not lose control of it from here on out since it's treated as a new object.

In this way, you win by beating your opponent down with their own creatures. Marchesa also adds a large amount of resiliency to the deck by helping it survive big board clears.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.60
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Zombie 2/2 B