She may not have board presence but I really like her for STAX or control applications. You can wipe the board, and even when the wipe kills Marchesa you're still "The Monarch". I don't think they are worlds apart in viability. Just in strategy.
Is everyone else as in love with Queen Marchesa as I am? I'm not sure how she compares to the origonal. Better? worse? on par? I think the whole monarch mechanic will be a lot of fun in casual environments.
I think she'd be fun to play, but I wish she'd stayed Grixis and complemented The Black Rose.
I think I actually prefer the Mardu colours. I found that blue doesn't really bring that much to the table and sometimes I've wished she were mardu instead.
Is everyone else as in love with Queen Marchesa as I am? I'm not sure how she compares to the origonal. Better? worse? on par? I think the whole monarch mechanic will be a lot of fun in casual environments.
French questions might be better aaked in my thread but I think so. I mean we still have access to black tutors and blinking Imperial Recruiter in and out of the GY with Marchesa can set up the combo too.
thank you very much, that were great! by the way - the twin combo should be a natural fit here, right? with so many ETB effects? it puts a target on your head though.
Ya it does. I play french marchesa more then I do multiplayer (I play that too) and an almost dedicated Twin Exarch list just did very well on mtgtop8. It got 2nd place out of 118. I was playing a more agresaive variant but now I'm thinking of switching over to the full on combo list. I digress. Anyway the exarch combo works well here because Marchesa makes it harder to disrupt and the deck synergises with the pieces outside of the combo too.
If you have a sac outlet and Marchesa out along with the Noosegraf Mob, you can sacrifice it in response to the last spell to get it back with new counters. My main problem with it is that it costs 6, which is where I think we want our game winners to be.
Ya thats kinda where I'm at too. I think it's not good enough for 6mana. If it were 4 or maybe even 5 it would be much better.
The same as every other punisher card: horrible. I'll be downright bitter if I ever open one of these.
No, it's actually a very very good RDW card. 3/2 evasion with an ability with no downside for 3cmc is amazing. It may not be exactly what this deck is looking for in a 3 drop but neithor is True Name Nemesis
Giving your opponents options on our draws is absolutely awful, honestly would only run this in a dedicated burn deck to be honest, and even then its not the best.
Well, you still get your regular draw, they just get to decide a second one prior to your regular draw.
Maybe better for duals? The table is likely to share taking the hits to deny you the CA which will in turn potentially turn off your dethrone triggers.
I like him. A lot. Relevant ability, cheap and tutorable, very aggressive, and a non-human wizard. Will leave opponent in a very tough place - do I use removal I was saving for marchesa or leave this guy around? Cause at some point he will start raking in value all by himself and win us the game if left around too long. It's a lot like what we were doing with Sage of Hours except this guy needs no other help to start raking in value, he can do it all on his own. Plus he's a 3/1 wizard for 2!
So, we've got a 5 Star General in Marchesa, A 4 Star General in Mikaeus, A 3 Star General in Drana, and now a 2 Star General in Olivia.
Maybe. I'm not in love with her. I was until I realized you had to discard a card every time you wanted to use that ability. We have guys coming in and out of play all the time, most of which are cheap and not worth spending a lot of resources protecting. Cards are valuable and when we discard them they are basically gone, we don't have a whole lot of ways to get them back in that case.
Idk, what does everyone else think? She's a 3/3 flyer for 3 with a relevant ability, maybe that alone is enough to warrant a spot. I don't think I'll be using that ability a whole lot though. My cards are precious and my creatures are cheap, I'd rather just throw more into play then turn one of them into a counter and haste for a different one.
Idk about multiplayer where the games ate generally longer but I'm really liking her for DC.
I look at her and see a 3/3 flyer for 3 with an ability that synergises with Marchesa. She has very strong value but I could see you ditching a lot more cards in multiplayer then DC.
Hey there!
I couldn't test Matter Reshaper either, and don't know how many colorless sources I have atm. I didn't get to play much CMDR lately, work occupies me. But today I had my first game since 2 months or so and I could also trade for a Sneak Attack! I am really happy right now. Can't wait to draw that in my next games!
Edit: Almost forgot: A new Conpiracy set was announced (for the third time already)! This will probably bring some new dethrone cards with it. http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/announcing-conspiracy-2
Edit2: Just saw a Facebook post from the official MtG account, that Marchesa is on the throne atm. So the woman in the art (see link above) is probably her. Good times!
OMG Marchesa is wearing Brago's crown! Does this mean we'll be seeing marchesa 2.0?
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What do you guys think? The synergy is there I just wonder if it's strong enough
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I look at her and see a 3/3 flyer for 3 with an ability that synergises with Marchesa. She has very strong value but I could see you ditching a lot more cards in multiplayer then DC.
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