Queen Marchesa - Current by user4055079

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck operates as a political Mardu Aikido control deck designed to manipulate combat, defend life totals, and punish aggressive opponents. In the early game, the deck establishes mana rocks and deploys Queen Marchesa on Turn 4 to take the Monarch, generating steady card advantage and deathtouch blocker tokens. A layered pillowfort suite featuring Ghostly Prison, Windborn Muse, Blind Obedience, and No Mercy discourages opponents from attacking your board. Instead, the deck uses goad effects like Disrupt Decorum, Kardur, Doomscourge, and Taunt from the Rampart to force opponents into brutal combat trades with one another. When an opponent attempts a decisive strike against you, aikido instants like Deflecting Palm, Comeuppance, and Take the Bait turn their own power into lethal retaliation. Sunforger serves as the central toolbox engine, providing instant access to spot removal, protection, and redirection spells to seal the final duel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alexios, Deimos of Kosmos
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Coronation
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Boros Signet
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Comeuppance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Grace
  • 1 Court of Ire
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Furycalm Snarl
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Loran of the Third Path
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nomad Outpost
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Promise of Loyalty
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Cluestone
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Ruinous Ultimatum
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shadrix Silverquill
  • 1 Shattered Landscape
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summon: Primal Odin
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 1 Sunscorched Divide
  • 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 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Windborn Muse
  • 1 Xantcha, Sleeper Agent