Marchesa EDH

by Artheties1725 on 01 April 2015

Main Deck (99 cards)

Sideboard (1 card)

Creatures (1)

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Deck Description

Marchesa seems like someone to make deals with demons and then stab them in the back too...

I really wanted to make a demon tribal and couldn't decide between kaalia and kresh. Ended up wanting to run marchesa for very little reason other than she is super cool and i wanted to do something out of the ordinary.

How to Play

Get demons out and swing them at your opponents. If that doesn't work you can use mikaeus + marchesa + conspiracy for some apostle shenanigans either spitting out the rest of your demons or having one hell (lol) of an army thanks to coat of arms and/or whip of erebos

Deck Tags

  • EDH
  • Marchesa
  • Demon
  • Tribal

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Not Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Not Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Marchesa EDH

Two words for you, my friend: Blood Speaker.
Another two: Demon's Herald.

I'm kinda surprised there's not much in the way of sacrifice shenanigans running around in this deck. Seeing as the Demons (Extractor Demon; Ob Nilixis, Unshackled; Reaper From the Abyss; Seizan, Perverter of Truth, etc.) are inherently evil (Undying Evil) and incredibly capricious when involving lifeforms that are NOT themselves, they have the tendency to either make their adherents sacrifice themselves at the Altar (Altar of Shadows, Altar's Reap, Altar of Dementia, Carnage Altar, etc.), or just outright devour them themselves (Devour Flesh, Devour in Shadow).

Speaking of adherents and fodder, Demons like to have multiple agents to multiply their gains (Ill-Gotten Gains, Moonlight Bargain, Yawgmoth's Bargain). In addition to the obvious cultists (Selhof Occultist, Skirsdag Cultist, Blood Cultist) under their employ, Demons utilize the shock troop units of the Nine Hells: Devils (Charmbreaker Devils, Squealing Devil, Flayer of the Hatebound, Heckling Fiends, etc.). None of this even includes a Demon's wide array of death and destructive magics (Devil's Play, Life's Finale, Cruel Ultimatum, Bonfire of the Damned, etc.) at their disposal.

Just some ideas for a little more synergy and flavor in your already-interesting tribal deck.

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Posted 02 April 2015 at 14:37

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I wanted to add more sacrifice shenanigans but i had a difficult time trying to keep a decent number of apostle targets + actual apostles and then i was trying to add the ramp to compensate for the expensive demons. Decks built around death and sacrificing are my thing so i'm not sure why i forgot good old blood artist himself. I either thought about or originally had a lot of the cards you mentioned in the original list but they ended up being cut for either actual demons / more apostles / or lands.

Are there any cards you would suggest cutting for some of your suggestions? I want to use them but i can't seem to find a good balance between apostles, demons, and other things.

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Posted 03 April 2015 at 00:08

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Hmmm. Possibly Patriarch's Bidding? If you have something that distributes counters on your creatures, you won't actually need it (granted you have Marchesa out, both problems are solved). A really great fact about Marchesa is that if she goes to the graveyard with a counter on her as well, at the end of turn her ability resolves and you may return all creatures that had counters on them, including her.

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Posted 03 April 2015 at 01:37

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