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Commander / EDH* Casual Multiplayer UBR (Grixis)

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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.

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