This is my Marchesa deck. It originally started as more of a good stuff build but as I was looking for draw engines, I came across Azami and figured I could push the number of wizards to make her viable (I have 16 plus clones). The other reason to push the wizard theme is the incredible interaction between Marchesa and Sage of Fables, who is an absolute house in this deck.
The trickiest thing about playing this deck is managing your life total so that you can profitably attack. Stuff like Night's Whisper and Ambition's Cost really help in this department.
The trickiest thing about playing this deck is managing your life total so that you can profitably attack. Stuff like Night's Whisper and Ambition's Cost really help in this department.
Once the table starts to get below 20 life or so, cards like Goblin Bombardment, Deathbringer Thoctar and Vela the Night-Clad can clean things up pretty quickly in conjunction with the recursion.
1x Marchesa, the Black Rose
Creature (31)
1x AEther Adept
1x Archeomancer
1x Apprentice Necromancer
1x Azami, Lady of Scrolls
1x Baleful Strix
1x Cytoplast Manipulator
1x Dack's Duplicate
1x Deathbringer Thoctar
1x Disciple of Bolas
1x Flayer of the Hatebound
1x Glen Elendra Archmage
1x Havengul Lich
1x Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
1x Mulldrifter
1x Nin, the Pain Artist
1x Olivia Voldaren
1x Phantasmal Image
1x Phyrexian Metamorph
1x Puppeteer Clique
1x Sadistic Hypnotist
1x Sage of Fables
1x Sea Gate Oracle
1x Solemn Simulacrum
1x Taurean Mauler
1x Thraximundar
1x Treasonous Ogre
1x Vela the Night-Clad
1x Vendilion Clique
1x Viscera Seer
1x Voidmage Prodigy
1x Badlands
1x Cabal Coffers
1x High Market
11x Island
9x Mountain
1x Opal Palace
1x Reliquary Tower
9x Swamp
1x Tolaria West
1x Underground Sea
1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1x Volcanic Island
Enchantment (6)
1x Goblin Bombardment
1x Necromancy
1x Phyrexian Arena
1x Retribution of the Ancients
1x Sneak Attack
1x Unspeakable Symbol
Instant (5)
1x Arcane Denial
1x Chaos Warp
1x Counterspell
1x Cyclonic Rift
1x Lim-Dul's Vault
Planeswalker (1)
1x Dack Fayden
1x Ashnod's Altar
1x Chromatic Lantern
1x Darksteel Ingot
1x Dimir Signet
1x Fellwar Stone
1x Izzet Signet
1x Phyrexian Altar
1x Rakdos Signet
1x Sol Ring
1x Talisman of Dominance
1x Whip of Erebos
Sorcery (6)
1x Ambition's Cost
1x Damnation
1x Demonic Tutor
1x Living Death
1x Night's Whisper
1x Read the Bones