Queens Gambit 2.0 ♟️ by Kalahari

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Queen Marchesa leads a political Aikido control deck that turns opponents strength and aggression back against them. Instead of racing to establish an early board, the list introduces the Monarch mechanic, generates card advantage through political engines, and manipulates enemy attacks with goad effects. The deck wins by weaponizing large opposing boards or high power totals using reactive damage reflection, lethal turnabouts like Inkshield, Repercussion paired with Blasphemous Act, or mass theft spells such as Insurrection and Mob Rule to close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arcbond
• 1 Archon of Coronation
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Backlash
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Batwing Brume
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Boros Signet
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Comeuppance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Council's Judgment
• 1 Court of Ambition
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Dawn Charm
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Palm
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Delirium
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Duelist's Heritage
• 1 Everybody Lives!
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Fire Covenant
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Forbidden Orchard
• 1 Furycalm Snarl
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Horizon of Progress
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Inspiring Vantage
• 1 Insurrection
• 1 Judgment of Alexander
• 1 Legion Leadership // Legion Stronghold
• 1 Leonin Lightscribe
• 1 Loran of the Third Path
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1 Mistveil Plains
• 1 Mob Rule
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mox Diamond
• 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
• 1 Orim's Chant
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 4 Plains
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1 Queen Marchesa
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Repercussion
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Reverberate
• 1 Ruby Medallion
• 1 Rugged Prairie
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Scheming Symmetry
• 1 Shadrix Silverquill
• 1 Silence
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Spellbinder
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Sunbaked Canyon
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 1 Sunforger
• 2 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Take the Bait
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Taunt from the Rampart
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Wild Ricochet
• 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent