Card

Marchesa, Dealer of Death

Mana cost {U}{B}{R}

Legendary Creature — Human Rogue 3/4

Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay {1}. If you do, look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 3 known combos. 6 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · OTJ · #220
Cheapest printing
€0.17
EDHREC salt
0.19
Color identity
Black, Red, Blue

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

3 known combos.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    A player commits a crime as they cast a spell, activate an ability, or put a triggered ability on the stack that targets at least one opponent, at least one permanent, spell, or ability an opponent controls, and/or at least one card in an opponent’s graveyard.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    A player can commit only one crime per spell or ability they control. Targeting multiple opponents, permanents, spells, abilities, and/or cards with the same spell or ability doesn’t constitute committing multiple crimes.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    If there’s only one card in your library as Marchesa’s triggered ability resolves, you’ll put it into your hand.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    For example, an ability that triggers when you cast a spell that targets an opponent will trigger at the same time as an ability that triggers whenever you commit a crime. Those abilities can be put on the stack in either order (if you control them both), and they’ll both resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    Changing the target or targets of a spell or ability won’t affect whether or not the controller of that spell or ability has committed a crime. Only the initial targets chosen for that spell or ability are used to determine whether or not its controller committed a crime.
  • 2024-04-12 · Wizards of the Coast
    The spell or ability that constituted a crime doesn’t have to have resolved yet or at all. As soon as you’re finished casting the spell, activating the ability, or putting the triggered ability on the stack, you’ve committed a crime.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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