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Marchesa, the Black Rose

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.) Other creatures you control have dethrone. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

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What Marchesa, the Black Rose actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · deathWhenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
• Static ability · keyword_grantOther creatures you control have dethrone.
• Keyword · dethronedethrone

What a Marchesa, the Black Rose deck needs

Plays as team keywords. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• expendable creatures and free sacrifice outlets (its payoff is creatures dying)
• +1/+1 counter producers and payoffs (its text places or reads +1/+1 counters)
• creatures that profit from dethrone (it grants the team it)

The Marchesa, the Black Rose deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
• 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 14× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 10× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
• 4× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once

Best cards for Marchesa, the Black Rose

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Marchesa, the Black Rose

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Marchesa, the Black Rose is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Marchesa, the Black Rose + Time Sieve + Myr Battlesphere55 decks

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