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"Find me cards equivalent to: Marchesa, the Black Rose"

Equivalent cards to Marchesa, the Black Rose in Grixis colors (B, R, U) with a similar focus on +1/+1 counters and creature recursion are:
1. Marchesa, the Black Rose (original)
2. Marchesa, the Dead Rose (recursion-focused, Grixis, similar name/commander theme)
3. Sedris, the Traitor King (reanimates creatures each turn—no counters, but Grixis legend)
4. The Scarab God (recursion and Grixis color identity)
5. Nicol Bolas, the Ravager (Legendary Grixis creature, though not focused on recursion)

None grant dethrone exactly or +1/+1 counter synergy and recursion in Grixis, but these are as close as Grixis gets. Marchesa, the Black Rose is uniquely focused on that combined effect.

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Marchesa, the Black Rose

Sedris, the Traitor King

The Scarab God

Marchesa, the Black Rose #2009 Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Variations: v1 v2
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Rarity: Rare
Converted Cost: 4
Power/Toughness: 3/3
Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Human
  • Wizard
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    Layout:
    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Dethrone

    Rules

  • 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.
  • If a creature has multiple instances of dethrone, each triggers separately.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The +1/+1 counter is put on the creature before blockers are declared.
  • 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.

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    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD / 3.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 3.89 USD
    Manapool / 6.18 USD 5.88 USD
    Cardmarket 3 EUR / 5.7 EUR

    Legalities

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    Text

    Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1counteron it.) Other creatures you control have dethrone. Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1counteron it dies, return that card to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

    Sedris, the Traitor King #193 Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • Zombie
  • Warrior
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • Activating a creature card's unearth ability isn't the same as casting the creature card. The unearth ability is put on the stack, but the creature card is not. Spells and abilities that interact with activated abilities (such as Stifle) will interact with unearth, but spells and abilities that interact with spells (such as Remove Soul) will not.
  • At the beginning of the end step, a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth is exiled. This is a delayed triggered ability, and it can be countered by effects such as Stifle or Voidslime that counter triggered abilities. If the ability is countered, the creature will stay on the battlefield and the delayed trigger won't trigger again. However, the replacement effect will still exile the creature when it eventually leaves the battlefield.
  • Despite the appearance of the reminder text, the unearth abilities that Sedris grants are activated abilities of each individual creature card in your graveyard. They're not activated abilities of Sedris.
  • If a creature returned to the battlefield with unearth would leave the battlefield for any reason, it's exiled instead — unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it! In that case, it succeeds at exiling it. If it later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Oblivion Ring or Flickerwisp might, for example), the creature card will return to the battlefield as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it.
  • If you activate a card's unearth ability but that card is removed from your graveyard before the ability resolves, that unearth ability will resolve and do nothing.
  • Sedris may cause a creature card in your graveyard to have multiple unearth abilities. (For example, a Fatestitcher in your graveyard would have unearth {U} and unearth {2}{B}.) You may activate either of those abilities.
  • Unearth grants haste to the creature that's returned to the battlefield. However, neither of the "exile" abilities is granted to that creature. If that creature loses all its abilities, it will still be exiled at the beginning of the end step, and if it would leave the battlefield, it is still exiled instead.

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    Tcgplayer / 12.79 USD 1.13 USD
    Manapool / 4.97 USD 0.62 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 7.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 5.42 EUR 0.91 EUR

    Legalities

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    Text

    Each creature card in your graveyard has unearth . (: Return the card to the battlefield. The creature gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

    The Scarab God #145s Legendary Creature — God

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 5
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
    Types:
  • Creature
    • SubTypes:
  • God
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    Normal
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    Copy

    Abilities/Keywords

    Scry

    Rules

  • If this creature dies but leaves your graveyard before the next end step, it will remain in its new zone.
  • The “next end step” refers to the next end step that occurs, not the end step of the next turn. If this creature dies before a turn's end step (for example, during combat), it will be returned to its owner's hand at the beginning of that turn's end step.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, The Scarab God's first ability causes the opposing team to lose life equal to twice the number of Zombies you control, although you scry only equal to the number of Zombies you control.
  • The number of Zombies you control is counted as The Scarab God's first ability resolves. Players can try to change that number in response to the ability (perhaps by activating its second ability).

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    Cardkingdom 27.99 USD
    Manapool 19.46 USD
    Cardmarket 16.35 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses X life and you scry X, where X is the number of Zombies you control. : Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie. When The Scarab God dies, return it to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.