Marchesa, the Black Rose
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Other creatures you control have dethrone.
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.
Many of Marchesa's subjects would die for her. In fact, most of them have.
3 / 3
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop (SLD #2009)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 4
- Released
- 2025-04-28
- Artist
- Jay Howell
- EDHREC rank
- #4,856
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos 1
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Unspeakable Symbol
- Iron Apprentice
- Carrion Feeder
- Flayer of the Hatebound
- Uncivil Unrest
- Thran Vigil
- Grim Haruspex
- Viscera Seer
- Ashnod's Altar
- Goblin Bombardment
- Baleful Strix
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan
- Drana, Liberator of Malakir
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Herald of Secret Streams
- Scorn-Blade Berserker
- River Kelpie
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Juri, Master of the Revue
- Forge of Heroes
- Thundering Raiju
- High Market
- Warren Soultrader
- Mark of Mutiny
- Opal Palace
- Gev, Scaled Scorch
- Phyrexian Tower
- Skullclamp
- Mahadi, Emporium Master
- Village Rites
- Phyrexian Altar
- The Ozolith
- Sneak Attack
- Danny Pink
- Sage of Fables
- Deadly Dispute
- Fain, the Broker
- Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
- Marionette Apprentice
- Bloodtracker
- Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate
- Zealous Conscripts
- Spark Double
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
- Guildmages' Forum
- Puppeteer Clique
- Mob Rule
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Island
- Mountain
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- Arcane Signet
- Unspeakable Symbol
- Blasphemous Act
- Iron Apprentice
- Carrion Feeder
- Exotic Orchard
- Flayer of the Hatebound
- Baleful Strix
- Ashnod's Altar
- Viscera Seer
- Talisman of Dominance
- Uncivil Unrest
- Grim Haruspex
- Goblin Bombardment
- Thran Vigil
- Crumbling Necropolis
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Watery Grave
- Talisman of Indulgence
- Blood Crypt
- Steam Vents
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan
- Talisman of Creativity
- Shivan Reef
- Dragonskull Summit
- Drana, Liberator of Malakir
- Sulfurous Springs
- Underground River
- Counterspell
- Herald of Secret Streams
- Drowned Catacomb
- Xander's Lounge
- Scorn-Blade Berserker
- Sulfur Falls
- River Kelpie
- Satoru, the Infiltrator
- Bloodstained Mire
- Glen Elendra Archmage
- Sunken Hollow
- Polluted Delta
- Rakdos Signet
- Dimir Signet
- Smoldering Marsh
- Chaos Warp
- Lightning Greaves
Format legality
Rulings
- 2014-05-29
If Marchesa has a +1/+1 counter on it when it dies, it will return to the battlefield under your control because of its own ability.
- 2014-05-29
If a creature has multiple instances of dethrone, each triggers separately.
- 2014-05-29
If the creature card leaves the graveyard before the delayed triggered ability resolves, that card won't return to the battlefield, even if it's back in the graveyard when the delayed triggered ability resolves.
- 2014-05-29
In a Two-Headed Giant game, dethrone will trigger if the creature attacks either player on the team with the most life or tied for the most life.
- 2014-05-29
Once dethrone triggers, it doesn't matter what happens to the players' life totals before the ability resolves. You'll put a +1/+1 counter on the creature even if the defending player doesn't have the most life as the ability resolves.
- 2014-05-29
The +1/+1 counter is put on the creature before blockers are declared.
- 2023-07-28
Dethrone doesn't trigger if the creature attacks a planeswalker, even if its controller has the most life. The same is true if the creature attacks a battle, even if its protector has the most life.