Conspiracy Cycle by Psyga315

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Mardu monarchy/combat-control deck built around Queen Marchesa rather than a hidden or double-faced commander. The primary plan is to take the monarchy early, draw extra cards each turn, and tax opponents with monarch enforcers, edicts, and tokens before closing with evasive combat and extra combat phases. Secondary paths are Purphoros token burn, a hasty Phage one-turn kill with The Fire Crystal, and asymmetric board resets. The deck leans on artifact ramp and cost reducers to smooth its 3.52 average mana value, but many draft-matters cards are functionally dead in normal Commander play, making the real card pool thinner than it appears.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adriana, Captain of the Guard
  • 1 Akroan Hoplite
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdemon of Paliano
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Basandra, Battle Seraph
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Buster Sword
  • 1 Carnage Gladiator
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Custodi Peacekeeper
  • 1 Custodi Soulbinders
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drakestown Forgotten
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Flamewright
  • 1 Garbage Fire
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Ignition Team
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knights of the Black Rose
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magister of Worth
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Mardu Banner
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mortify
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Noble Banneret
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Paliano Vanguard
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pearl Medallion
  • 1 Phage the Untouchable
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Angel
  • 1 Protector of the Crown
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Pyretic Hunter
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Regicide
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Crystal
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Smuggler Captain
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Spontaneous Combustion
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Volatile Chimera