New Untitled Deck by oODoenermafiaOo

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa list is an optimized Mardu Aikido and political control deck engineered to weaponize opponents' aggression and turn their own threats against them. The deck establishes early velocity through dense two-mana ramp, quickly deploying Queen Marchesa to introduce the Monarch mechanic and secure steady card advantage alongside engines like Trouble in Pairs and Black Market Connections. Rather than racing for early combos, the strategy establishes a defensive perimeter using pillowfort taxes and rattlesnake threats while assembling an untouchable Sunforger toolbox. The deck dictates the pace of combat through instant-speed redirection, goad effects, and devastating combat traps like Inkshield, Deflecting Palm, and Comeuppance. Once opponents have committed resources and whittled down each other's life totals, the deck seizes critical onset with a decisive Taunt from the Rampart or an overwhelming Inkshield counter-attack, closing the game in a single turn cycle while shielding its board with Teferi's Protection and Boros Charm.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Archivist of Oghma
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deep Gnome Terramancer
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drana and Linvala
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forth Eorlingas!
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mistveil Plains
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 2 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scroll Rack
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 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 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Winding Canyons
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills