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Marchesa, Dealer of Death
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
Marchesa wants a deck that removes its creatures and brings them right back to reuse them. It also works in a deck built around Humans, Library Manipulation or Rogues.
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- Blue, Black, Red ()
- Power / toughness3 / 4
- RarityRare
Whenever you commit a crime, you may pay 
. 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.)
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Cards That Fit Marchesa, Dealer of Death
Picked for what they do in Marchesa's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Marchesa's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.
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Rulings for Marchesa, Dealer of Death
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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.
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.
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.
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.
If there’s only one card in your library as Marchesa’s triggered ability resolves, you’ll put it into your hand.
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.
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