Queen Marchesa

Queen Marchesa Commander Deck

Queen Marchesa leads a political aikido deck that wins by turning opponents' aggression against themselves — using damage redirection, punishment effects, and forced combat through goading to let the table tear itself apart while you stay protected behind pillowfort pieces and deflection spells. The monarch mechanic fuels the engine, incentivizing opponents to attack while Assassin tokens and life-punishing enchantments keep pressure on anyone who gets too greedy. The deck closes games through its own combo lines: Blasphemous Act paired with Repercussion to deal massive redirected damage to all players, Brash Taunter channeling targeted damage back at opponents, or Sheoldred, the Apocalypse combined with Peer into the Abyss to drain a single player out of the game through forced card draw.

Decklist

• Acidic Soil
• Angel's Grace
• Anguished Unmaking
• Animate Dead
• Arcane Signet
• Arcbond
• Arena of Glory
• Arid Mesa
• Black Market Connections
• Blasphemous Act
• Blood Crypt
• Bloodstained Mire
• Boros Charm
• Boros Signet
• Brash Taunter
• Clifftop Retreat
• Comeuppance
• Command Tower
• Curse of Opulence
• Deflecting Palm
• Delirium
• Demolition Field
• Disrupt Decorum
• Dragonskull Summit
• Duelist's Heritage
• Enlightened Tutor
• Esper Sentinel
• Fetid Heath
• Fire Covenant
• Flamekin Village
• Generous Gift
• Generous Plunderer
• Ghostly Prison
• Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• Gleaming Splendor
• Godless Shrine
• Grim Tutor
• Imperial Recruiter
• Inkshield
• Isolated Chapel
• Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• Kardur, Doomscourge
• Legion Leadership
• Life of the Party
• Loran of the Third Path
• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• Luxury Suite
• Marsh Flats
• Maze of Ith
• Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• Mistveil Plains
• 2× Mountain
• Nelly Borca, Impulsive Accuser
• Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
• Olórin's Searing Light
• Orzhov Signet
• Path to Exile
• Peer into the Abyss
• Phyrexian Arena
• Pinnacle Monk
• 3× Plains
• Rakdos Charm
• Repercussion
• Return the Favor
• Reverberate
• Rugged Prairie
• Sacred Foundry
• Savai Triome
• Scheming Symmetry
• Selfless Squire
• Sevinne's Reclamation
• Shadowspear
• Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• Smothering Tithe
• Sol Ring
• Spectator Seating
• Stoneforge Mystic
• Sudden Impact
• Sunforger
• 2× Swamp
• Sword of Hearth and Home
• Sword of War and Peace
• Swords to Plowshares
• Take the Bait
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• Talisman of Conviction
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Taunt from the Rampart
• Tibalt's Trickery
• Trouble in Pairs
• Underworld Breach
• Vault of Champions
• Wheel of Fortune
• Winds of Abandon