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This version of the elusive Marchesa, the Black Rose EDH deck focuses heavily on utilizing sacrifice outlets to keep my creatures on the board. Main focus being get +1/+1 counters on my creatures and languish in the power that is undying (but actually my creatures don't die). Bonus if I can steal opponents creatures, trigger dethrone, sacrifice them, then they return to me.

There's a ton of synergy in this deck, and I've put a lot of work into perfecting it, and constructive feedback is gladly welcomed!

Let's start with enter the battlefield effects. These are great especially if I can get them a +1/+1 counter and sacrifice them, only to have them come back: Dack's Duplicate , Disciple of Bolas , Flayer of the Hatebound , Fleshbag Marauder , Grave Titan , Phyrexian Metamorph , Profaner of the Dead , Puppeteer Clique , Rune-Scarred Demon , Sidisi, Undead Vizier , Snapcaster Mage , and Solemn Simulacrum

All of the above have great entering effects I can utilize very effectively. Bonus to Dack's Duplicate and Phyrexian Metamorph for potentially copying my other enter the battlefield creatures to further increase shenanigans. Cool thing about Dack's Duplicate is that Dethrone stacks and triggers separately as well.

Now let's have a look out my sacrifice outlets: Falkenrath Aristocrat , Fleshbag Marauder , Grimgrin, Corpse-Born , Profaner of the Dead , Sidisi, Undead Vizier , Westvale Abbey   , Helm of Possession , and Ashnod's Altar .

Great effects and allow me to get my own creatures off the board and back on.

How about my sacrificial fodder?: Arcbound Slith , Arcbound Worker , Chasm Skulker , Solemn Simulacrum , and the all powerful Reef Worm . Shoutout to my man Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker for also producing things to sacrifice. Be sure to keep in my all my 'enter the battlefield' creatures from earlier are also sac fodder. And remember the idea is for all my creatures WHENEVER they die from any source they are meant to be returned by Marchesa.

I made sure to include some synergy with all this in order to punish my opponent or help myself (or both). BEHOLD!: Sheoldred, Whispering One , Mikaeus, the Unhallowed , Harvester of Souls , River Kelpie , Havengul Lich , Glen Elendra Archmage , Purphoros, God of the Forge , Olivia, Mobilized for War , Sage of Fables , Oona's Blackguard .

The rest of the creature package, great cards and good synergy with all the other major ideas of the deck. Lot of combos with Marchesa and just a great set of all around broken synergistic shenanigan creatures.

Treacherous Urge , Spinal Embrace , Slave of Bolas . Great for controlling my opponent, removing their creatures, and potentially making them my own if I can get them +1/+1 while Marchesa's out.

Grave Betrayal , Grave Pact , Dictate of Erebos . Punish my opponent(s). Plain and simple black stomping that is extremely good with what the deck is trying to do. Grave Betrayal even makes the creatures mine forever.

Black Market , Skullclamp , Cauldron Dance . Great value and great synergy, don't underestimate these cards powers in the deck.

Insurrection , Living Death . Insurrection is my win. I've played it before and then just scooped my board because it's a gg at this point. I can swing all, Dethrone, and all you creatures are belong to me. Shoutout to Living Death for being extra powerful in this deck. Hopefully I played Bojuka Bog but even if I did not it's still great because I get back all the creatures in my graveyard on the battlefield and my sacrificed creatures come back at end step.

Keeping Dethrone on the table. If I want to keep Marchesa, the Black Rose 's effects powerful I need to be sure I can trigger Dethrone. That's why I've added a lot of pain to this deck: Phyrexian Arena , Unspeakable Symbol , Toxic Deluge , Phyrexian Reclamation . Lands: Ancient Tomb , Grand Coliseum , City of Brass , Mana Confluence , Blood Crypt , Steam Vents , Watery Grave , Bloodstained Mire , Polluted Delta , Cephalid Coliseum , and Westvale Abbey  .

Lastly is my blatant Grixis control package: Cryptic Command , Cyclonic Rift , Swan Song , Dispel , Pact of Negation , Elemental Augury , Vandalblast , Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker , Dack Fayden . Since I've got so much great opponent hate already through group sacrifice I only added what I consider to be the best cards to have. Everything makes perfect sense to me, but if there's something better or something I'm missing please enlighten me!

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 4 years
Exclude colors WG
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

14 - 0 Mythic Rares

48 - 1 Rares

19 - 0 Uncommons

8 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 3.84
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Emblem Dack Fayden, Fish 3/3 U, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Kraken 9/9 U, Squid 1/1 U, Whale 6/6 U, Zombie 2/2 B
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