Marchesa Aikido by user6566364

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck plays an interactive Mardu Aikido control strategy that turns opponents' aggression against them. Rather than racing to execute a fast proactive combo, the deck establishes early card advantage through the monarch mechanic and dense mana rock acceleration. It deploys pillowfort pieces like Ghostly Prison and goad effects like Kardur, Doomscourge to divert opposing combat steps into each other. A powerful Sunforger toolbox provides instant-speed tutoring for surgical removal, stack disruption, and explosive combat redirection spells such as Inkshield, Comeuppance, and Deflecting Palm. Once opposing life totals are depleted through forced combat and asymmetric damage reflection, the deck finishes the game using mass token swarms, Mob Rule, or high-impact damage amplifiers like Gisela, Blade of Goldnight. The deck excels at resilience and reactive timing, maintaining a high floor across all phases of the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Approach of the Second Sun
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Backlash
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Delaying Shield
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Hushbringer
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Khârn the Betrayer
  • 1 Lapse of Certainty
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mythos of Snapdax
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Painful Truths
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemnity
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of Triumph
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vivid Marsh
  • 1 Vivid Meadow
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Wind-Scarred Crag
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent