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A slightly Vampire / Nicol Bolas Themed Commander Deck with Marchesa, The Black Rose as General
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Hey!This is my newest commander deck I intend on playing. The idea of the deck is of course to mainly make use of Marchesa's Second ability: "Whenever a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return it to the battlefield under your control and the end of next end step". In order to do so I have added a large variety of creatures that either are made of +1/+1 tokens or generate +1/+1 tokens easily. The deck has with Dack Fayden, Olivia Voldaren, Nicol Bolas and Memnarch various ways to steal powerful creatures, artifacts or with some effort even any permanent from my opponents. This in many cases permanently.As most of my creatures will not stay dead very as long as Marchesa is out, the deck has quite a few boardwipes like: Damnation, Decree of Pain, Nevinyrral's Disk, Blasphemous act, Crux of Fate.One last remark: The lands shown here are not how I will actually play the deck. I just did not come to it yet to select my lands ;)So? What do you think? Do you have any remarks, or suggestions? Feel free to tell them!
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Interesting. I've been formulating a way to use my Marchesa for a good while now in a Commander deck, and finally settled on an idea, but I like this as well. Oh, by the way, to check with her ability in connection to her being a commander, I found out that Commanders MAY go to the Command Zone directly from the graveyard, but you have the additional option of letting them stay in your graveyard, much like a normal creature. Normally, this doesn't effect much in the way of game play, but with Marchesa... If she's in your graveyard at the end of turn, her ability STILL WORKS! That's right, you can bring her back (and all your creatures) with her in your graveyard, as long as it's on the same turn this occurs and as long as your creatures had retained counters before being sent to the graveyard.In terms of interesting thoughts and constructive criticisms, I kind of wonder why you don't have more sacrifice mechanics and spells to make the most use of Marchesa. Since your creatures are bound to come back from the dead (game play permitting), spells like Barter in Blood and Innocent Blood could be essential board-clearing spells. Bloodfire Infusion could be wonderful as well as a board clearer, if set on an appropriately proportioned creature. Fool's Demise also works well in this regard, since it continuously resurrects the sacrificed creature in question (Unhallowed Pact is another example, though it does not have the same effectiveness.). Grave Pact would also be another go-to for something in this neighborhood, since it effectively works much as an Innocent Blood times as many creatures as you lose. Also, Curse of the Swine kind of reneges your graveyard capabilities on your opponents, though I can see your use in spot removal. Possibly substitute a Toxic Deluge as a board wipe, since it helps fulfill your need for life loss (Dethrone, after all), as well as gets rid of exceptionally nasty Indestructible creatures. While you don't want to give opponents too much of a lead on you, if it's card draw you need, I'd suggest mass card-draw card to also flood your opponent's hand and (hopefully) make them discard some interesting cards, such as Fascination or even a simple Skyscribing. The more in everyone's graveyard, the more resources in your control. As for some interesting creatures for you to explore, Mephidross Vampire would fit the bill nicely here, as well as Diluvian Primordial to make more use of your opponent's dross. Spelltwine might also be of some help, if there's any spells you may want to use and/or repeat use.