Contested Throne • (Mardu Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Commander

Qty: 1 Price: $2.79

Queen Marchesa

Deathtouch, haste
When Queen Marchesa enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent is the monarch, create a 1/1 black Assassin creature token with deathtouch and haste.

Legendary Creature - Human Assassin

$2.79 $1.15 $0.91

Commander

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Artifact

Qty: 2 Price: $1.34

Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.80 $0.46

Commander's Sphere

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.37 $0.15

Artifact

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CMDR

Qty: 13 Price: $31.07

Akroma's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.

Instant

$15.99 $16.79 $15.10

Bastion Protector

Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have indestructible.

Creature - Human Soldier

$1.29 $0.80 $0.21

Bloodsworn Steward

Flying
Commander creatures you control get +2/+2 and have haste.

Creature - Knight Vampire

$0.49 $0.90 $0.69

Commander's Insignia

Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.

Enchantment

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Crimson Honor Guard

Trample
At the beginning of each player's end step, this creature deals 4 damage to that player unless they control a commander.

Creature - Knight Vampire

$0.49 $0.36 $0.15

Demon of Wailing Agonies

Flying
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice."

Creature - Demon

$3.99 $1.70 $1.37

Empyrial Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.
Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying.

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.43 $0.15

Loyal Apprentice

Haste
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. That token gains haste until end of turn.

Creature - Human Artificer

$0.39 $0.39 $0.17

Loyal Subordinate

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, each opponent loses 3 life.

Creature - Zombie

$0.69 $0.39 $0.15

Loyal Unicorn

Vigilance
Lieutenant — At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you control your commander, prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to creatures you control this turn. Other creatures you control gain vigilance until end of turn.

Creature - Unicorn

$0.69 $0.35 $0.31

Skull Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game.
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. Each opponent who can't loses half their life, rounded up.

Sorcery

$1.29 $0.93 $0.15

Szat's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Each opponent sacrifices a creature they control with the greatest power.
• Exile all opponents' graveyards, then create X 0/1 black Thrull creature tokens, where X is the greatest power among creature cards exiled this way.

Instant

$2.79 $0.92 $0.72

Tyrant's Familiar

Flying, haste
Lieutenant — As long as you control your commander, this creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature attacks, it deals 7 damage to target creature defending player controls."

Creature - Dragon

$1.99 $0.86 $0.81

CMDR

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Creature

Qty: 2 Price: $2.84

Colossus of Akros

Defender, indestructible

: Monstrosity 10. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put ten +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.)
As long as this creature is monstrous, it has trample and can attack as though it didn't have defender.

Creature Artifact - Golem

$2.49 $1.97 $0.73

Darksteel Gargoyle

Flying
Indestructible (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy this creature.)

Creature Artifact - Gargoyle

$0.35 $0.26 $0.18

Creature

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Damage Avoid

Qty: 11 Price: $15.57

Channel Harm

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and permanents you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage is prevented this way, you may have Channel Harm deal that much damage to target creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Delaying Shield

If damage would be dealt to you, put that many delay counters on this enchantment instead.
At the beginning of your upkeep, remove all delay counters from this enchantment. For each delay counter removed this way, you lose 1 life unless you pay

Enchantment

$6.99 $6.46 $4.16

Divine Deflection

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you and/or permanents you control this turn. If damage is prevented this way, Divine Deflection deals that much damage to any target.

Instant

$0.59 $0.25 $0.15

Endure

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and permanents you control this turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Festival of the Guildpact

Prevent the next X damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Kjeldoran Royal Guard

: All combat damage that would be dealt to you by unblocked creatures this turn is dealt to this creature instead.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.49 $0.21 $0.16

Palisade Giant

All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to this creature instead.

Creature - Soldier Giant

$0.49 $0.29 $0.15

Pariah

Enchant creature
All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to enchanted creature instead.

Enchantment - Aura

$3.99 $2.71 $2.57

Riot Control

You gain 1 life for each creature your opponents control. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.

Instant

$0.79 $0.29 $0.15

Selfless Squire

Flash
When this creature enters, prevent all damage that would be dealt to you this turn.
Whenever damage that would be dealt to you is prevented, put that many +1/+1 counters on this creature.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.69 $0.44 $0.15

Turn the Tables

All combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn is dealt to target attacking creature instead.

Instant

$0.49 $0.43 $0.15

Damage Avoid

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Enchantment

Qty: 2 Price: $3.28

Indestructibility

Enchant permanent
Enchanted permanent has indestructible. (Effects that say "destroy" don't destroy that permanent. A creature with indestructible can't be destroyed by damage.)

Enchantment - Aura

$1.79 $1.68 $0.31

Shielded by Faith

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has indestructible.
Whenever a creature enters, you may attach this Aura to that creature.

Enchantment - Aura

$1.49 $3.06 $0.51

Enchantment

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ETB Monarch

Qty: 7 Price: $10.07

Crimson Fleet Commodore

Trample
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature - Ogre Pirate

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Feast of Succession

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn. You become the monarch.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Marchesa's Decree

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life.

Enchantment

$2.79 $2.64 $0.87

Palace Sentinels

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Protector of the Crown

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to this creature instead.

Creature - Soldier Giant

$5.49 $2.90 $1.77

Staunch Throneguard

Vigilance
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature Artifact - Construct

$0.35 $0.12 $0.15

Thorn of the Black Rose

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.

Creature - Human Assassin

$0.39 $0.24 $0.15

ETB Monarch

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God-Emperor

Qty: 11 Price: $13.77

Dusk Charger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature gets +2/+2 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Horse

$0.35 $0.35 $0.15

Golden Demise

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, instead only creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Mausoleum Harpy

Flying
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Whenever another creature you control dies, if you have the city's blessing, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Harpy

$0.35 $0.04 $0.15

Orazca Relic

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life and draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Pride of Conquerors

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn. If you have the city's blessing, those creatures get +2/+2 until end of turn instead.

Instant

$0.35 $0.21 $0.15

Radiant Destiny

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. As long as you have the city's blessing, they also have vigilance.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.34 $0.15

Skymarcher Aspirant

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature has flying as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Vampire Soldier

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Snubhorn Sentry

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature gets +3/+0 as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Dinosaur

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Storm Fleet Swashbuckler

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
This creature has double strike as long as you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Human Pirate

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Tilonalli's Summoner

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Whenever this creature attacks, you may pay

. If you do, create X 1/1 red Elemental creature tokens that are tapped and attacking. At the beginning of the next end step, exile those tokens unless you have the city's blessing.

Creature - Human Shaman

$0.79 $0.45 $0.15

Vona's Hunger

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
Each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice. If you have the city's blessing, instead each opponent sacrifices half the creatures they control of their choice, rounded up.

Instant

$9.49 $6.03 $4.57

God-Emperor

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King Target

Qty: 3 Price: $1.63

Crown-Hunter Hireling

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
This creature can't attack unless defending player is the monarch.

Creature - Ogre Mercenary

$0.35 $0.17 $0.15

Knights of the Black Rose

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever an opponent becomes the monarch, if you were the monarch as the turn began, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature - Human Knight

$0.69 $0.31 $0.15

Palace Jailer

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
When this creature enters, exile target creature an opponent controls until an opponent becomes the monarch.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.59 $0.27 $0.15

King Target

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Land

Qty: 39 Price: $22.25

Akoum Refuge

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.29 $0.23

Alpine Meadow

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Snow Land - Plains Mountain

$0.69 $0.42 $0.15

Arch of Orazca

Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)

: Add

: Draw a card. Activate only if you have the city's blessing.

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.20

Archway Commons

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Axgard Armory

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Aura card and/or an Equipment card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Land

$0.69 $0.39 $0.25

Bloodfell Caves

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.20

Canyon Slough

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Command Tower

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land

$0.69 $0.36 $0.26

Detection Tower

: Add

: Until end of turn, your opponents and creatures your opponents control with hexproof can be the targets of spells and abilities you control as though they didn't have hexproof.

Land

$4.49 $3.14 $2.01

Evolving Wilds

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.99 $0.36 $0.17

Forge of Heroes

: Add

: Choose target commander that entered this turn. Put a +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature and a loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker.

Land

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Gateway Plaza

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land - Gate

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.69 $0.38 $0.21

Opal Palace

: Add

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. If you spend this mana to cast your commander, it enters with a number of additional +1/+1 counters on it equal to the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.37 $0.22

Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped.

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Plains

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: Add

Basic Land - Plains

$---- $---- $----

Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand.

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.42 $0.20

Rupture Spire

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$---- $0.16 $0.15

Scoured Barrens

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Snowfield Sinkhole

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Snow Land - Plains Swamp

$0.39 $0.35 $0.15

Study Hall

: Add

: Add one mana of any color. When you spend this mana to cast your commander, scry X, where X is the number of times it's been cast from the command zone this game.

Land

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Sulfurous Mire

(

: Add

.)
This land enters tapped.

Snow Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.39 $0.31 $0.15

Swamp

(

: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$---- $---- $----

Temple of Malice

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.59 $0.40 $0.22

Temple of Silence

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.57 $0.15

Temple of the False God

: Add

. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land

$0.35 $0.29 $0.16

Temple of Triumph

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Terramorphic Expanse

, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Throne of the High City

: Add

, Sacrifice this land: You become the monarch.

Land

$0.69 $0.44 $0.32

Transguild Promenade

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you pay

: Add one mana of any color.

Land

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Tyrite Sanctum

: Add

: Target legendary creature becomes a God in addition to its other types. Put a +1/+1 counter on it.

, Sacrifice this land: Put an indestructible counter on target God.

Land

$3.49 $2.53 $2.05

Wind-Scarred Crag

This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you gain 1 life.

: Add

Land

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Land

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On Coronation

Qty: 1 Price: $0.59

Custodi Lich

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature of their choice.

Creature - Cleric Zombie

$0.59 $0.37 $0.37

On Coronation

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Your Majesty

Qty: 8 Price: $17.64

Archon of Coronation

Flying
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
As long as you're the monarch, damage doesn't cause you to lose life. (When a creature deals combat damage to you, its controller still becomes the monarch.)

Creature - Archon

$1.49 $0.62 $0.46

Court of Ambition

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Enchantment

$7.99 $5.96 $2.17

Court of Grace

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying. If you're the monarch, create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying instead.

Enchantment

$2.99 $3.34 $2.32

Court of Ire

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, this enchantment deals 2 damage to any target. If you're the monarch, it deals 7 damage instead.

Enchantment

$0.69 $0.42 $0.19

Emberwilde Captain

When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
Whenever an opponent attacks you while you're the monarch, this creature deals damage to that player equal to the number of cards in their hand.

Creature - Djinn Pirate

$2.79 $2.34 $1.32

Garrulous Sycophant

At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature - Human Advisor

$0.35 $0.28 $0.15

Skyline Despot

Flying
When this creature enters, you become the monarch.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a 5/5 red Dragon creature token with flying.

Creature - Dragon

$0.99 $0.63 $0.52

Throne Warden

At the beginning of your end step, if you're the monarch, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature - Human Soldier

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Your Majesty

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $122.84

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 4.11Total Mana Value: 251.00

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Artifact

CMDR

Commander

Creature

Damage Avoid

ETB Monarch

Enchantment

God-Emperor

King Target

Land

On Coronation

Your Majesty

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0 mana - 10 cards

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22 pips - 16 cards

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24 mana - 24 cards

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17 pips - 12 cards

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21 mana - 21 cards

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0 pips - 0 cards

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10 mana - 9 cards

Avg Mana Value: 4.11Total Mana Value: 251.00

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On Coronation

Your Majesty

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