Monarch + board wipes by user7076691

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Mardu monarch/control deck helmed by Queen Marchesa, built to seize the monarchy early and convert it into relentless card advantage, token generation, and incremental drain. The primary game plan is to become the monarch, deploy the Court cycle and other monarch payoffs (Court of Grace, Court of Embereth, Archon of Coronation, Custodi Lich, Skyline Despot, Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader), and grind opponents out through a dense package of death-trigger and token-synergy drain effects (Blood Artist, Syr Konrad, the Grim, Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade). The deck controls the board with a heavy suite of symmetric wipes and edict effects, then closes through combat with token swarms amplified by Exalted Sunborn, or by stealing the table's creatures with Mob Rule and Mutinous Massacre. Secondary lines include reanimation via Sun Titan, Zombify, and The Cruelty of Gix.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Coronation
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brutal Hordechief
  • 1 Captivating Cave
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Comet, Stellar Pup
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Embereth
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Doom Foretold
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Eiganjo Uprising
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 End Hostilities
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gixian Puppeteer
  • 1 Goblin Negotiation
  • 1 Golbez, Clad In Darkness
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Fierce Bee
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Magister of Worth
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Masterful Flourish
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mob Rule
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Mythos of Snapdax
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sculpted Sunburst
  • 1 Seismic Rupture
  • 1 Sejiri Shelter // Sejiri Glacier
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Soulless Jailer
  • 1 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Zombify