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Marchesa, the Black Rose (Wizards control) @MTGSpecs YouTube
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1359.90
Salt Sum: 51.3
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Commander

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Marchesa, the Black Rose

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.

Creature
Marchesa, the Black Rose (c17) 177
1

+1 Counters

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Cytoplast Manipulator

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {U}, {T}: Gain control of target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it for as long as Cytoplast Manipulator remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Cytoplast Manipulator (dis) 23
1
Forge of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Choose target commander that entered the battlefield this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Land
Forge of Heroes (c18) 58
1
Guildmages' Forum

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. If that mana is spent on a multicolored creature spell, that creature enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Land
Guildmages' Forum (grn) 250
1
Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types. Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature Artifact
Metallic Mimic (sld) 194
1
Nesting Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Move a counter from target permanent you control onto another target permanent. Activate only as a sorcery.

Land
Nesting Grounds (c20) 71
1
Opal Palace

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters the battlefield with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land
Opal Palace (cmr) 707
1
Sage of Fables

Each other Wizard creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it. {2}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from a creature you control: Draw a card.

Creature
Sage of Fables (mor) 47
1
Spark Double

You may have Spark Double enter the battlefield as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.

Creature
Spark Double (war) 68
1
Tyrite Sanctum

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Tyrite Sanctum: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Land
Tyrite Sanctum (khm) 372
1
Uncivil Unrest

Nontoken creatures you control have riot. (They enter the battlefield with your choice of a +1/+1 counter or haste.) If a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter on it would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage instead.

Enchantment
Uncivil Unrest (moc) 35
1
Unspeakable Symbol

Pay 3 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature.

Enchantment
Unspeakable Symbol (scg) 79
1
Vigean Graftmage

Graft 2 (This creature enters the battlefield with two +1/+1 counters on it. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield, you may move a +1/+1 counter from this creature onto it.) {1}{U}: Untap target creature with a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Vigean Graftmage (dis) 35
1

Card Advantage

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Aether Channeler

When Aether Channeler enters the battlefield, choose one — • Create a 1/1 white Bird creature token with flying. • Return another target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Creature
Aether Channeler (dmu) 42
1
Bloodtracker

Flying {B}, Pay 2 life: Put a +1/+1 counter on Bloodtracker. When Bloodtracker leaves the battlefield, draw a card for each +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Bloodtracker (pz2) 70689
1
Dark Confidant

At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal the top card of your library and put that card into your hand. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Dark Confidant (2xm) 342
1
Disciple of Bolas

When Disciple of Bolas enters the battlefield, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.

Creature
Disciple of Bolas (2xm) 85
1
Grim Haruspex

Morph {B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.) Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, draw a card.

Creature
Grim Haruspex (plst) UGIN-73
1
Necropotence

Skip your draw step. Whenever you discard a card, exile that card from your graveyard. Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library face down. Put that card into your hand at the beginning of your next end step.

Enchantment
Necropotence (me2) 107
1
Notion Thief

Flash If an opponent would draw a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, instead that player skips that draw and you draw a card.

Creature
Notion Thief (znc) 96
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (c20) 251
1

Control

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Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (c20) 50
1
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (c20) 35
1
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
1
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice Glen Elendra Archmage: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (eve) 22
1
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (cmr) 80
1
Siren Stormtamer

Flying {U}, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Creature
Siren Stormtamer (cmr) 96
1
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash When Venser, Shaper Savant enters the battlefield, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (tsr) 96
1
Voidmage Prodigy

{U}{U}, Sacrifice a Wizard: Counter target spell. Morph {U} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Creature
Voidmage Prodigy (tsb) 34
1

Copy/Steal

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Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead. At the beginning of your upkeep, put all creature cards exiled with Gisa, Glorious Resurrector onto the battlefield under your control. They gain decayed. (A creature with decayed can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Gisa, Glorious Resurrector (mid) 314
1
Sower of Temptation

Flying When Sower of Temptation enters the battlefield, gain control of target creature for as long as Sower of Temptation remains on the battlefield.

Creature
Sower of Temptation (sld) 120
1

Land

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Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (slu) 12Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (slu) 12
1
Clearwater Pathway

Land
Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (slu) 15Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway (slu) 15
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (c20) 264
1
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
1
Haunted Ridge

Haunted Ridge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 282
1
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (snc) 275
1
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (zne) 18
1
Morphic Pool

Morphic Pool enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Morphic Pool (clb) 357
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (snc) 279
1
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (c21) 311
1
Riptide Laboratory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}{U}, {T}: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.

Land
Riptide Laboratory (mh2) 303
1
Riverglide Pathway

Land
Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (slu) 20Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway (slu) 20
1
Shipwreck Marsh

Shipwreck Marsh enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {B}.

Land
Shipwreck Marsh (mid) 285
1
Stormcarved Coast

Stormcarved Coast enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {U} or {R}.

Land
Stormcarved Coast (dbl) 532
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (snc) 276
1

Life Loss

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Ancient Tomb deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
1
Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (lcc) 181
1
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rtr) 238
1
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Bloodstained Mire: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
1
City of Brass

Whenever City of Brass becomes tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Land
City of Brass (2x2) 321
1
Fiery Islet

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {U} or {R}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Fiery Islet: Draw a card.

Land
Fiery Islet (mh1) 238
1
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (cmr) 721
1
Mana Vault

Mana Vault doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap Mana Vault. At the beginning of your draw step, if Mana Vault is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 394
1
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice Scalding Tarn: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
1
Shivan Reef

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Shivan Reef deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Shivan Reef (c21) 316
1
Steam Vents

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.) As Steam Vents enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Steam Vents (unf) 283
1
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dkm) 40
1
Talisman of Creativity

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {R}. Talisman of Creativity deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Creativity (c21) 269
1
Talisman of Dominance

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Talisman of Dominance deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (mic) 164
1
Talisman of Indulgence

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Talisman of Indulgence deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact
Talisman of Indulgence (afc) 219
1
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters the battlefield, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
1
Underground River

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {U} or {B}. Underground River deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Underground River (dkm) 41
1
Watery Grave

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.) As Watery Grave enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Watery Grave (sld) 124
1

Ramp

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Nightscape Familiar

Blue spells and red spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. {1}{B}: Regenerate Nightscape Familiar.

Creature
Nightscape Familiar (dmr) 94
1
Rowan, Scion of War

Menace {T}: Spells you cast this turn that are black and/or red cost {X} less to cast, where X is the amount of life you lost this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Rowan, Scion of War (woe) 300
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c19) 221
1
Solemn Simulacrum

When Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When Solemn Simulacrum dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (afc) 216
1

Recursion

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Archaeomancer

When Archaeomancer enters the battlefield, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Archaeomancer (m13) 41
1
Puppeteer Clique

Flying When Puppeteer Clique enters the battlefield, put target creature card from an opponent's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. It gains haste. At the beginning of your next end step, exile it. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Puppeteer Clique (clb) 769
1

Removal

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Brotherhood's End

Choose one — • Brotherhood's End deals 3 damage to each creature and each planeswalker. • Destroy all artifacts with mana value 3 or less.

Sorcery
Brotherhood's End (bro) 335
1
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (2x2) 359
1
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (mm3) 35
1
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
1
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (voc) 129
1
Oubliette

When Oubliette enters the battlefield, target creature phases out until Oubliette leaves the battlefield. Tap that creature as it phases in this way. (Auras and Equipment phase out with it. While permanents are phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist.)

Enchantment
Oubliette (plst) 2XM-100
1
Ravenous Chupacabra

When Ravenous Chupacabra enters the battlefield, destroy target creature an opponent controls.

Creature
Ravenous Chupacabra (sld) 305
1
Reality Shift

Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Instant
Reality Shift (frf) 46
1
Thalakos Deceiver

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) Whenever Thalakos Deceiver attacks and isn't blocked, you may sacrifice it. If you do, gain control of target creature. (This effect lasts indefinitely.)

Creature
Thalakos Deceiver (sth) 45
1
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters the battlefield, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (2xm) 110
1
Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control. Overload {4}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Vandalblast (voc) 152
1

Sac Outlet

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (atq) 38
1
Barrin, Master Wizard

{2}, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

Creature
Barrin, Master Wizard (usg) 63
1
Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
1
Goblin Bombardment

Sacrifice a creature: Goblin Bombardment deals 1 damage to any target.

Enchantment
Goblin Bombardment (ddn) 24
1
Greater Gargadon

Suspend 10—{R} Sacrifice an artifact, creature, or land: Remove a time counter from Greater Gargadon. Activate only if Greater Gargadon is suspended.

Creature
Greater Gargadon (2x2) 111
1
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (2xm) 321
1
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
1
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (jmp) 493
1
Scorn-Blade Berserker

Backup 1 (When this creature enters the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) {1}, Sacrifice this creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Scorn-Blade Berserker (mom) 124
1
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom of your library.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (cmr) 158
1
Yahenni, Undying Partisan

Haste Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Yahenni, Undying Partisan. Sacrifice another creature: Yahenni gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Yahenni, Undying Partisan (aer) 74
1
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (tsr) 336
1

Tutor

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Imperial Recruiter

When Imperial Recruiter enters the battlefield, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
1
Step Through

Return two target creatures to their owners' hands. Wizardcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Wizard card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Sorcery
Step Through (mh2) 66
1

Win Condition

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters the battlefield, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (tsr) 323
1
Kokusho, the Evening Star

Flying When Kokusho, the Evening Star dies, each opponent loses 5 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Creature
Kokusho, the Evening Star (chk) 122
1
Terror of the Peaks

Flying Spells your opponents cast that target Terror of the Peaks cost an additional 3 life to cast. Whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, Terror of the Peaks deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target.

Creature
Terror of the Peaks (pm21) 164p
1
Vindictive Lich

When Vindictive Lich dies, choose one or more. Each mode must target a different player. • Target opponent sacrifices a creature. • Target opponent discards two cards. • Target opponent loses 5 life.

Creature
Vindictive Lich (sld) 235
1

Maybeboard

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Anathemancer

When Anathemancer enters the battlefield, it deals damage to target player equal to the number of nonbasic lands that player controls. Unearth {5}{B}{R} ({5}{B}{R}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Anathemancer (arb) 33
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (sta) 27
1
Dockside Extortionist

When Dockside Extortionist enters the battlefield, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (2x2) 107
1
Dolmen Gate

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking creatures you control.

Artifact
Dolmen Gate (plst) LRW-256
1
Mahadi, Emporium Master

At the beginning of your end step, create a Treasure token for each creature that died this turn. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Mahadi, Emporium Master (clb) 282
1
Spellseeker

When Spellseeker enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Spellseeker (bbd) 41
1
Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Instant
Swan Song (ths) 65
1
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (cmr) 156
1

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