“"You should have folded when you had the chance."”
Marchesa, Dealer of Death
Card Rules and Details
Card Type: Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
Mana Cost: {U}{B}{R}
Oracle Rules Text: 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.)
Flavor Text: "You should have folded when you had the chance."
Set: Outlaws of Thunder Junction (#220), Rarity: Rare, Artist: Ryan Pancoast
Legendary
Creature
Black
Red
Blue
Rare
$0.22
Regular
$0.33
✨ Foil
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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Official Rulings (6)
2024-04-12
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
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
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
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
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
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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