Hide yo' creatures, hide yo' commanders

Commander / EDH* Casual Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

Spellsword407

Sorcery (21)

• 1x Act of Treason
• 1x Besmirch
• 1x Blood Divination
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Claim the Firstborn
• 1x Doublecast
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Goatnap
• 1x Hijack
• 1x Malevolent Whispers
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Morbid Plunder
• 1x Painful Lesson
• 1x Role Reversal
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Spark Harvest
• 1x Thud
• 1x Traitorous Blood
• 1x Walk the Plank

Artifact (7)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Sol Ring

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Phyresis
• 1x Sinister Concoction
• 1x Strange Augmentation
• 1x Unholy Indenture

Creature (19)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Beguiler of Wills
• 1x Dark-Dweller Oracle
• 1x Fireblade Artist
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Hamletback Goliath
• 1x Keldon Overseer
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Simic Manipulator
• 1x Smelt-Ward Ignus
• 1x Spark Reaper
• 1x Thorn of the Black Rose
• 1x Thraximundar
• 1x Zealous Conscripts

Instant (12)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Fling
• 1x Macabre Mockery
• 1x Price of Fame
• 1x Succumb to Temptation
• 1x Tainted Strike
• 1x Turn Against
• 1x Undying Evil
• 1x Wretched Confluence

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Cinder Barrens
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Highland Lake
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Boilerworks
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 8x Mountain
• 1x Mystifying Maze
• 1x Rakdos Carnarium
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Vivid Creek

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Sorcery (2)

• 1x Bond of Passion
• 1x Necromantic Selection

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Open the Graves

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Marchesa, the Black Rose build with heavy theft/sacrifice theme. Click on "Custom" to see the primary function(s) of each card. Despite blue being an extremely minor splash for this deck, you should have no trouble with card draw, with over twelve draw effects sprinkled in. Many of them are sacrifice effects to help you permanently steal your opponents' creatures.

There is also a heavy recursion subtheme to maximize the use of the best creatures--even if they're in an opponents' graveyard. To this end, a handful of cards help you mill:

• Altar of Dementia
• Dark Bargain
• Price of Fame
• Sinister Concoction

Since Marchesa doesn't buff herself, I've added a few cards to protect her on the board:

• Strange Augmentation
• Undying Evil
• Unholy Indenture

Also, because I'm that player, I've added a couple of cards to grant infect, just in case the opportunity presents itself (cough, cough) Hamletback Goliath, or you snag a particularly big monster from an opponent. Seriously, this guy should get huge if you can make him stick on the board, and because of his mechanic, he easily will trigger to bring himself back with Marchesa on the board.

If you want to power this deck up, you could swap for some tutoring effects. I have to account for a Superfriends deck in my playgroup, so I've added some extra planeswalker hate. This includes the very mana-inefficient Bond of Passion, which would be an easy swap-out for you to upgrade the deck.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Exclude colors	WG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 15 - 0 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons 33 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.03
Tokens	Morph 2/2 C, Monarch Emblem