Queen of the Vile by FlippinBizkits

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Queen Marchesa leads an aikido and pillowfort control strategy designed to dictate combat and weaponize opponent aggression. The deck establishes early monarch card advantage and constructs defensive layers using taxing permanents, deathtouch blockers, and combat deterrents like Ghostly Prison and No Mercy. Opponents are coerced into attacking each other through goad effects such as Disrupt Decorum, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant. Once the table is softened, the deck closes the game by swinging massive combat turns with Insurrection or Moonshaker Cavalry, or by detonating overcommitted boards with Inkshield and Court damage triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assemble the Legion
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Champions of Minas Tirith
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Council's Judgment
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Ardenvale
  • 1 Court of Embereth
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Court of Ire
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Cut a Deal
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Windborn Muse