Tax Evasion by nicelookingowl

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck plays an interactive Mardu Aikido strategy designed to control the pace of the game through combat manipulation, political deterrents, and punisher engines. In the early turns, it deploys efficient mana rocks and pillowfort pieces before casting Queen Marchesa to claim the monarch and establish consistent card draw. As the game develops, it uses goad effects like Disrupt Decorum and Taunt from the Rampart alongside tax pieces like Ghostly Prison and War's Toll to force opponents into attacking each other. Meanwhile, the deck accumulates Treasure tokens through cards like Smothering Tithe, Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, and Descent into Avernus. It converts these resources into victory using aristocrat burn triggers from Marionette Master, Ingenious Artillerist, and Mayhem Devil, devastating combat deflections like Inkshield, or a decisive Torment of Hailfire. The list maintains high resilience through versatile interaction and robust backup draw engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Baeloth Barrityl, Entertainer
• 1 Battlefield Forge
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Boros Charm
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Comeuppance
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Court of Ambition
• 1 Curse of Opulence
• 1 Deflecting Palm
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Descent into Avernus
• 1 Disciple of the Vault
• 1 Disrupt Decorum
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fetid Heath
• 1 Generous Gift
• 1 Generous Plunderer
• 1 Ghostly Prison
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1 Hellish Rebuke
• 1 Ingenious Artillerist
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1 Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant
• 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Luminarch Ascension
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Marionette Master
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 2 Mountain
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway
• 1 Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
• 1 No Mercy
• 1 Pain Distributor
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Plaza of Heroes
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Puppet Master, String Puller
• 1 Queen Marchesa
• 1 Radiant Summit
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Repercussion
• 1 Revel in Riches
• 1 Sacred Foundry
• 1 Settle the Wreckage
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Smuggler's Share
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectator Seating
• 1 Sunbaked Canyon
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Conviction
• 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Taunt from the Rampart
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Torment of Hailfire
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 War's Toll
• 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
• 1 Xorn