Queen Marchesa 👸🏻🏰 by ItsMalte

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck plays a classic Mardu Aikido and political control strategy. It establishes early card flow through the monarch mechanic, then constructs a defensive pillowfort using cards like Ghostly Prison, Windborn Muse, and Crawlspace. Rather than racing to eliminate opponents with aggressive early attacks, the deck incentivizes and forces opponents to battle one another using goad effects such as Disrupt Decorum, Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser, and Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant. When opponents attempt to swing in your direction, reactive aikido traps like Inkshield, Deflecting Palm, and Comeuppance turn their own power against them. The deck closes games around Turn 7 or 8 by resolving decisive mass-combat spells like Taunt from the Rampart or Insurrection, sweeping in for lethal damage once opponents have reduced each other's life totals.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Coronation
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Champions of Minas Tirith
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coercive Impetus
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Embereth
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Noble Heritage
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orzhov Advokist
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plateau
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Tenuous Truce
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Wedding Ring
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent