Kitty Akido by user3651719

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Queen Marchesa is a Mardu monarch/politics deck: she secures monarch card advantage while goad and pillow-fort effects push the table into fighting itself. The primary finish is a Sunforger + Boros Charm commander-damage clock on Queen Marchesa, accelerated by Gisela and protected by a dense interaction suite. Secondary lines use Brash Taunter with Fire Covenant and copy spells to remove players, or token beats from Court of Grace/Inklings after a Ruinous Ultimatum. The commander is the value engine and main attacker, but the deck has enough independent interaction that it can wade through mid-game without her. There is no hidden commander; the list is built around the single-faced Queen Marchesa.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Backlash
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Ephemerate
  • 1 Fast Forward
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Fork
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Hellish Rebuke
  • 1 Humble Defector
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lion Sash
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Olórin's Searing Light
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Price of Progress
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Reverent Mantra
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Take the Bait
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Trouble in Pairs
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Windborn Muse