Queens Game (Final) by LoganLepire

Format: Commander

Commander: Queen Marchesa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Queen Marchesa deck operates a classic Mardu Aikido control strategy. It avoids proactive aggression in the early game, using efficient mana acceleration, pillowfort enchantments like Ghostly Prison and Blind Obedience, and stax pieces like Deafening Silence to dictate the pace of the table. Queen Marchesa enters on Turn 4 to introduce the Monarch mechanic, generating consistent card advantage and 1/1 deathtouch Assassin tokens whenever opponents contest the crown. Rather than racing for fast infinite combos, the deck turns opposing power into a lethal win condition. Forced combat engines including Kardur, Doomscourge, Disrupt Decorum, and Life of the Party whittle down enemy life totals while preserving your own. When an opponent commits to a massive attack, instant-speed deflection spells like Inkshield, Deflecting Palm, Delirium, and Take the Bait reverse the damage or create an overwhelming swarm of flying Inkling tokens to close out the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Aven Mindcensor
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boros Charm
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Breena, the Demagogue
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackling Doom
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deafening Silence
  • 1 Deflecting Palm
  • 1 Delirium
  • 1 Disrupt Decorum
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Duelist's Heritage
  • 1 Eerie Interlude
  • 1 Emberwilde Captain
  • 1 Erebos, God of the Dead
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fighter Class
  • 1 Final Showdown
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Island Sanctuary
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kambal, Consul of Allocation
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Life of the Party
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lion Sash
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Olórin's Searing Light
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Queen Marchesa
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rugged Prairie
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Selfless Squire
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Stoneforge Mystic
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Sunforger
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Take the Bait
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Taunt from the Rampart
  • 1 Touch the Spirit Realm
  • 1 Wear // Tear
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Winds of Abandon
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow