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Marchesa, the Black Rose

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

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What a Marchesa, the Black Rose deck wants

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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.

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Treasonous Ogre4 mana
  2. Grenzo's Cutthroat2 mana
  3. Marchesa's Smuggler2 mana
  4. Marchesa, the Black Rose4 mana
  5. Enraged Revolutionary3 mana
  6. Marchesa's Infiltrator3 mana
  7. Scourge of the Throne6 mana
  8. Marchesa's Emissary4 mana

A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it

  1. Krenko, Tin Street Kingpin3 mana
  2. Fear of Missing Out2 mana
  3. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun2 mana
  4. Valley Rotcaller2 mana
  5. Etali, Primal Storm6 mana
  6. Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate3 mana
  7. Captain Lannery Storm3 mana
  8. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Chasm Skulker3 mana
  2. Kozilek's Unsealing3 mana
  3. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  4. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  5. Siege-Gang Lieutenant4 mana
  6. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  7. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  8. Anax, Hardened in the Forge3 mana

Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably

  1. Phyrexian Tower0 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Lazotep Quarry0 mana
  4. Susur Secundi, Void Altar0 mana
  5. Scavenger's Talent1 mana
  6. Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn0 mana
  7. Miren, the Moaning Well0 mana
  8. Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs3 mana

Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Ripples of Potential2 mana
  3. Thrummingbird2 mana
  4. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  5. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  6. Contentious Plan2 mana
  7. Drown in Ichor2 mana
  8. Experimental Augury2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Displacement Wave2 mana
  5. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  6. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  7. Innocent Blood1 mana
  8. Breaking Point3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

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