Queen Marchesa by KrysApex

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Queen Marchesa leads a Mardu political control deck that wins by forcing opponents to fight each other while you stay protected. You take the monarch early for cards and Assassin tokens, then set up pillow-fort pieces like Ghostly Prison and Windborn Muse and goad effects that redirect attacks away from you. Damage doublers and punishers such as Gisela and Brash Taunter turn those forced combats into real pressure. With no infinite combo, you close by stealing boards with Insurrection or Mob Rule, or by one-shotting with Blasphemous Act plus Brash Taunter and Arcbond, or by grinding value from monarch and incremental tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Backlash
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Batwing Brume
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Insurrection
  • 1 Intervention Pact
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Keeper of the Accord
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Master Warcraft
  • 1 Master of Ceremonies
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Olórin's Searing Light
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Savai Triome
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Showdown
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 4 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 Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Windborn Muse