For the Crown by Berserker93

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck executes a classic Mardu Aikido and Monarch control strategy. It introduces the Monarch early to generate steady card advantage while setting up defensive barriers like Ghostly Prison, Crawlspace, and No Mercy. Instead of racing to assemble fast combos, the deck controls the flow of combat using goad cards like Disrupt Decorum, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Taunt from the Rampart to force opponents to eliminate each other. It capitalizes on aggressive opponents through lethal aikido redirects like Inkshield, Deflecting Palm, and Comeuppance. As the game progresses, it closes out remaining players using scaling Monarch Court enchantments, Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, or Master of Cruelties. The deck boasts comprehensive permanent removal and strong resilience through redundant Monarch enablers, though it remains vulnerable to non-combat combo strategies and exile board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Batwing Brume
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Breena, the Demagogue
• 1 Bygone Bishop
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Champions of Minas Tirith
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Clifftop Retreat
• 1 Comeuppance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Court of Ambition
• 1 Court of Ardenvale
• 1 Court of Embereth
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Court of Ire
• 1 Court of Locthwain
• 1 Crawlspace
• 1 Custodi Lich
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Palm
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Duelist's Heritage
• 1 Emberwilde Captain
• 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Fracture
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Grenzo, Havoc Raiser
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Master of Cruelties
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 4 Mountain
• 1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 4 Plains
• 1 Protector of the Crown
• 1 Queen Marchesa
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Royal Assassin
• 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Savai Triome
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sundown Pass
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Taunt from the Rampart
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampire Nighthawk
• 1 Vandalblast
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Vault of the Archangel
• 1 Vindicate