Marchesa, Queen of Politics • (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 $1.12 $0.88

Commander

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Answers

Qty: 19 Price: $98.57

Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant

$4.49 $2.32 $1.44

Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant

$0.99 $0.68 $0.26

Bloodthirsty Blade

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)

: Attach this Equipment to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact - Equipment

$0.79 $0.37 $0.26

Boros Charm

Choose one —
• Boros Charm deals 4 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Permanents you control gain indestructible until end of turn.
• Target creature gains double strike until end of turn.

Instant

$9.99 $5.05 $3.12

Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant

$1.29 $0.46 $0.37

Crackling Doom

Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.

Instant

$0.49 $0.39 $0.15

Deflecting Palm

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you this turn, prevent that damage. If damage is prevented this way, Deflecting Palm deals that much damage to that source's controller.

Instant

$4.99 $3.55 $2.06

Kolaghan's Command

Choose two —
• Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
• Target player discards a card.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Kolaghan's Command deals 2 damage to any target.

Instant

$0.59 $0.39 $0.31

Merciless Eviction

Choose one —
• Exile all artifacts.
• Exile all creatures.
• Exile all enchantments.
• Exile all planeswalkers.

Sorcery

$0.99 $0.56 $0.35

Mirage Mirror

: This artifact becomes a copy of target artifact, creature, enchantment, or land until end of turn.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.60 $0.18

Rakdos Charm

Choose one —
• Exile target player's graveyard.
• Destroy target artifact.
• Each creature deals 1 damage to its controller.

Instant

$0.99 $0.56 $0.26

Return to Dust

Exile target artifact or enchantment. If you cast this spell during your main phase, you may exile up to one other target artifact or enchantment.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery

$3.49 $2.35 $0.89

Sunforger

Equipped creature gets +4/+0.

, Unattach this Equipment: Search your library for a red or white instant card with mana value 4 or less and cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then shuffle.
Equip

Artifact - Equipment

$5.99 $4.11 $3.43

Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant

$4.49 $1.81 $1.56

Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant

$54.99 $47.60 $43.13

Terminate

Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated.

Instant

$0.99 $0.41 $0.25

Thaumatic Compass

: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control seven or more lands, transform this artifact.

Artifact

Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (xln) 249

$1.49 $1.99 $0.50

Utter End

Exile target nonland permanent.

Instant

$0.49 $0.27 $0.16

Answers

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Card Advantage

Qty: 4 Price: $10.36

Mangara, the Diplomat

Lifelink
Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, if two or more of those creatures are attacking you and/or planeswalkers you control, draw a card.
Whenever an opponent casts their second spell each turn, draw a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Cleric

$0.99 $0.88 $0.51

Pendant of Prosperity

This artifact enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.

: Draw a card, then you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield. This artifact's owner draws a card, then that player may put a land card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact

$1.79 $0.95 $0.15

Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment

$6.99 $4.00 $3.90

Stolen Strategy

At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of each opponent's library. Until end of turn, you may cast spells from among those exiled cards, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast those spells.

Enchantment

$0.59 $0.53 $0.16

Card Advantage

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Land

Qty: 36 Price: $132.44

Ash Barrens

: Add

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Basic landcycling

(

, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Land

$0.59 $0.26 $0.15

Battlefield Forge

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$0.99 $0.34 $0.15

Blood Crypt

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Swamp Mountain

$13.99 $9.40 $9.32

Boros Garrison

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

: Add

Land

$0.79 $0.19 $0.26

Canyon Slough

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This land enters tapped.
Cycling

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, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Swamp Mountain

$0.59 $0.38 $0.20

Command Tower

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

Land

$0.79 $0.44 $0.25

Evolving Wilds

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

Land

$0.39 $0.21 $0.15

Exotic Orchard

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land

$0.79 $0.33 $0.22

Godless Shrine

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As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land - Plains Swamp

$14.99 $7.86 $7.81

Graven Cairns

: Add

, or

Land

$8.99 $5.57 $4.11

Haunted Ridge

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$14.99 $11.76 $9.52

Isolated Chapel

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp.

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.71 $0.23

Luxury Suite

This land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.

: Add

Land

$18.99 $22.82 $12.88

Mistveil Plains

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This land enters tapped.

: Put target card from your graveyard on the bottom of your library. Activate only if you control two or more white permanents.

Land - Plains

$1.29 $1.27 $0.38

Mountain

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Basic Land - Mountain

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Nomad Outpost

This land enters tapped.

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.30 $0.17

Orzhov Basilica

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

: Add

Land

$0.49 $0.31 $0.20

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

$0.59 $0.26 $0.17

Plains

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Basic Land - Plains

$0.49 $0.32 $0.15

Rakdos Carnarium

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

: Add

Land

$0.99 $0.39 $0.29

Rugged Prairie

: Add

, or

Land

$0.99 $0.85 $0.72

Savai Triome

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This land enters tapped.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land - Plains Swamp Mountain

$27.99 $19.10 $19.05

Sulfurous Springs

: Add

. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land

$7.49 $6.18 $5.79

Sundown Pass

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands.

: Add

Land

$5.49 $7.75 $5.68

Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.59 $0.26 $0.17

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

$0.79 $0.35 $0.22

Throne of the High City

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, Sacrifice this land: You become the monarch.

Land

$0.69 $0.43 $0.33

Land

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Pillowfort

Qty: 6 Price: $104.14

Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay

. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter tapped.

Enchantment

$6.99 $5.09 $3.78

Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays

for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment

$9.99 $7.38 $5.82

Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays

Legendary Creature - Warrior Ogre

$0.99 $0.31 $0.25

No Mercy

Whenever a creature deals damage to you, destroy it.

Enchantment

$79.99 $81.53 $108.36

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 $0.50 $0.42

Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays

for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment

$5.49 $4.18 $3.16

Pillowfort

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Politics

Qty: 9 Price: $37.07

Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards.

: Add three mana of any one color.
Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact

$0.59 $0.45 $0.15

Disrupt Decorum

Goad all creatures you don't control. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)

Sorcery

$5.49 $3.87 $4.02

Duelist's Heritage

Whenever one or more creatures attack, you may have target attacking creature gain double strike until end of turn.

Enchantment

$6.49 $2.58 $----

Humble Defector

: Draw two cards. Target opponent gains control of this creature. Activate only during your turn.

Creature - Human Rogue

$0.35 $0.11 $0.15

Mathas, Fiend Seeker

Menace
At the beginning of your end step, put a bounty counter on target creature an opponent controls. For as long as that creature has a bounty counter on it, it has "When this creature dies, each opponent draws a card and gains 2 life."

Legendary Creature - Vampire

$0.99 $0.55 $0.43

Orzhov Advokist

At the beginning of your upkeep, each player may put two +1/+1 counters on a creature they control. If a player does, creatures that player controls can't attack you or planeswalkers you control until your next turn.

Creature - Human Advisor

$0.39 $0.44 $0.33

Rite of the Raging Storm

Creatures named Lightning Rager can't attack you or planeswalkers you control.
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player creates a 5/1 red Elemental creature token named Lightning Rager. It has trample, haste, and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."

Enchantment

$1.99 $0.90 $----

Wound Reflection

At the beginning of each end step, each opponent loses life equal to the life they lost this turn. (Damage causes loss of life.)

Enchantment

$17.99 $19.20 $12.76

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha enters under the control of an opponent of your choice.
Xantcha attacks each combat if able and can't attack its owner or planeswalkers its owner controls.

: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Legendary Creature - Minion Phyrexian

$2.79 $1.49 $1.30

Politics

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Ramp

Qty: 14 Price: $112.16

Burnished Hart

, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature Artifact - Elk

$0.69 $0.24 $0.15

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "

: Add one mana of any color."

: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.41 $0.67

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$2.29 $1.22 $1.03

Gilded Lotus

: Add three mana of any one color.

Artifact

$7.99 $5.94 $3.37

Mind Stone

: Add

, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact

$0.69 $0.34 $0.22

Orzhov Signet

: Add

Artifact

$0.99 $0.38 $0.34

Rakdos Signet

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $1.27 $1.62

Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay

. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment

$69.99 $55.10 $52.08

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$3.99 $1.89 $1.80

Sword of the Animist

Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip

Legendary Artifact - Equipment

$6.99 $8.07 $5.41

Talisman of Conviction

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.45 $0.31

Talisman of Hierarchy

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$1.29 $0.67 $0.41

Talisman of Indulgence

: Add

. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.

Artifact

$3.99 $3.55 $3.16

Treasure Nabber

Whenever an opponent taps an artifact for mana, gain control of that artifact until the end of your next turn.

Creature - Goblin Rogue

$4.49 $2.47 $2.04

Ramp

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Tutor

Qty: 5 Price: $147.95

Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant

$44.99 $38.66 $34.41

Open the Armory

Search your library for an Aura or Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery

$4.99 $2.98 $2.54

Scheming Symmetry

Choose two target players. Each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.

Sorcery

$11.99 $9.23 $7.68

Stoneforge Mystic

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature - Artificer Kor

$42.99 $28.73 $23.65

Tithe

Search your library for a Plains card. If target opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for an additional Plains card. Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Instant

$42.99 $36.55 $22.48

Tutor

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WinCon

Qty: 6 Price: $109.74

Helm of Obedience

: Target opponent mills a card, then repeats this process until a creature card or X cards have been put into their graveyard this way, whichever comes first. If one or more creature cards were put into that graveyard this way, sacrifice this artifact and put one of them onto the battlefield under your control. X can't be 0.

Artifact

$34.99 $27.04 $20.79

Insurrection

Untap all creatures and gain control of them until end of turn. They gain haste until end of turn.

Sorcery

$19.99 $10.04 $12.70

Leyline of the Void

If this card is in your opening hand, you may begin the game with it on the battlefield.
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.97 $0.50

Luminarch Ascension

At the beginning of each opponent's end step, if you didn't lose life this turn, you may put a quest counter on this enchantment. (Damage causes loss of life.)

: Create a 4/4 white Angel creature token with flying. Activate only if this enchantment has four or more quest counters on it.

Enchantment

$13.99 $15.92 $11.44

Revel in Riches

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control ten or more Treasures, you win the game.

Enchantment

$37.99 $21.26 $----

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

$1.49 $0.76 $0.41

WinCon

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Sideboard

Qty: 3 Price: $8.27

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs

less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery

$2.29 $1.12 $0.93

Exsanguinate

Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.

Sorcery

$1.49 $1.03 $0.38

Vandalblast

Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery

$4.49 $2.28 $1.56

Sideboard

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $763.49

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 3.23Total Mana Value: 207.00

Quantity of

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Card Advantage

Commander

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Pillowfort

Politics

Ramp

Tutor

WinCon

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13 mana - 12 cards

Avg Mana Value: 3.23Total Mana Value: 207.00

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