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Queen Marchesa
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $452.12
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Commander

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Queen Marchesa

Deathtouch, haste When Queen Marchesa enters the battlefield, 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.

Creature
Queen Marchesa (cn2) 78
1

Artifact

Quantity: 9Price: $28.27
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (cmr) 297
1
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.) {1}: Attach Bloodthirsty Blade to target creature an opponent controls. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Bloodthirsty Blade (c19) 53
1
Coercive Portal

Will of the council — At the beginning of your upkeep, starting with you, each player votes for carnage or homage. If carnage gets more votes, sacrifice Coercive Portal and destroy all nonland permanents. If homage gets more votes or the vote is tied, draw a card.

Artifact
Coercive Portal (cns) 56
1
Crawlspace

No more than two creatures can attack you each combat.

Artifact
Crawlspace (c13) 240
1
Crown of Doom

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn. {2}: Target player other than Crown of Doom's owner gains control of it. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Crown of Doom (c14) 55
1
Crown of Gondor

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each creature you control. When a legendary creature enters the battlefield under your control, if there is no monarch, you become the monarch. Equip {4}. This ability costs {3} less to activate if you're the monarch.

Artifact
Crown of Gondor (ltc) 75
1
Norn's Annex

({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.) Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {W/P} for each of those creatures.

Artifact
Norn's Annex (nph) 17
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (c18) 222
1
Tempting Contract

At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent may create a Treasure token. For each opponent who does, you create a Treasure token.

Artifact
Tempting Contract (c21) 78
1

Creature

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Archon of Coronation

Flying When Archon of Coronation enters the battlefield, 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 of Coronation (cmr) 9
1
Baird, Steward of Argive

Vigilance Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {1} for each of those creatures.

Creature
Baird, Steward of Argive (dom) 4
1
Champions of Minas Tirith

When Champions of Minas Tirith enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, if you're the monarch, that opponent may pay {X}, where X is the number of cards in their hand. If they don't, they can't attack you this combat.

Creature
Champions of Minas Tirith (ltc) 10
1
Charming Prince

When Charming Prince enters the battlefield, choose one — • Scry 2. • You gain 3 life. • Exile another target creature you own. Return it to the battlefield under your control at the beginning of the next end step.

Creature
Charming Prince (eld) 8
1
Custodi Lich

When Custodi Lich enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. Whenever you become the monarch, target player sacrifices a creature.

Creature
Custodi Lich (cn2) 41
1
Emberwilde Captain

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

Creature
Emberwilde Captain (cmr) 175
1
Irencrag Pyromancer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, Irencrag Pyromancer deals 3 damage to any target.

Creature
Irencrag Pyromancer (eld) 128
1
Kambal, Consul of Allocation

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, that player loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Creature
Kambal, Consul of Allocation (kld) 183
1
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

Whenever you attack a player, tap target creature that player controls and goad it. (Until your next turn, that creature attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever an opponent attacks another one of your opponents, you and the attacking player each draw a card and lose 1 life.

Creature
Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant (afc) 49
1
Kardur, Doomscourge

When Kardur, Doomscourge enters the battlefield, until your next turn, creatures your opponents control attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able. Whenever an attacking creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Kardur, Doomscourge (khm) 324
1
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 {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (c16) 130
1
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran of the Third Path enters the battlefield, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (bro) 12
1
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.

Creature
Mangara, the Diplomat (m21) 27
1
Palace Jailer

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

Creature
Palace Jailer (cn2) 18
1
Protector of the Crown

When Protector of the Crown enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. All damage that would be dealt to you is dealt to Protector of the Crown instead.

Creature
Protector of the Crown (cn2) 21
1
Royal Assassin

{T}: Destroy target tapped creature.

Creature
Royal Assassin (m12) 105
1
Shadrix Silverquill

Flying, double strike At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may choose two. Each mode must target a different player. • Target player creates a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying. • Target player draws a card and loses 1 life. • Target player puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature they control.

Creature
Shadrix Silverquill (stx) 280
1
Skyline Despot

Flying When Skyline Despot enters the battlefield, 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
Skyline Despot (afc) 140
1
Starscream, Power Hungry

Creature Artifact
Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5
1
Windborn Muse

Flying Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Creature
Windborn Muse (c21) 111
1
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

Xantcha, Sleeper Agent enters the battlefield 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. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (cmm) 362
1
Éomer, King of Rohan

Double strike Éomer, King of Rohan enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it for each other Human you control. When Éomer enters the battlefield, target player becomes the monarch. Éomer deals damage equal to its power to any target.

Creature
Éomer, King of Rohan (ltc) 52
1

Enchantment

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Blind Obedience

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (gtc) 6
1
Court of Ambition

When Court of Ambition enters the battlefield, 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
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
1
Court of Ardenvale

When Court of Ardenvale enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to your hand. If you're the monarch, return that permanent card to the battlefield instead.

Enchantment
Court of Ardenvale (woc) 21
1
Court of Embereth

When Court of Embereth enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, create a 3/1 red Knight creature token. Then if you're the monarch, Court of Embereth deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of creatures you control.

Enchantment
Court of Embereth (woc) 24
1
Court of Grace

When Court of Grace enters the battlefield, 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
Court of Grace (cmr) 16
1
Court of Ire

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

Enchantment
Court of Ire (cmr) 170
1
Court of Locthwain

When Court of Locthwain enters the battlefield, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of target opponent's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast it. If you're the monarch, until end of turn, you may cast a spell from among cards exiled with Court of Locthwain without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Court of Locthwain (woc) 23
1
Ghostly Prison

Creatures can't attack you unless their controller pays {2} for each creature they control that's attacking you.

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (cn2) 86
1
Marchesa's Decree

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

Enchantment
Marchesa's Decree (cn2) 44
1
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (rna) 22
1
Sphere of Safety

Creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control unless their controller pays {X} for each of those creatures, where X is the number of enchantments you control.

Enchantment
Sphere of Safety (rtr) 24
1
Tenuous Truce

Enchant opponent At the beginning of enchanted opponent's end step, you and that player each draw a card. When you attack enchanted opponent or a planeswalker they control or when they attack you or a planeswalker you control, sacrifice Tenuous Truce.

Enchantment
Tenuous Truce (ncc) 87
1

Instant

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Anguished Unmaking

Exile target nonland permanent. You lose 3 life.

Instant
Anguished Unmaking (2x2) 170
1
Baleful Mastery

You may pay {1}{B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. If the {1}{B} cost was paid, an opponent draws a card. Exile target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Baleful Mastery (stx) 64
1
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
Chaos Warp (clb) 785
1
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
Deflecting Palm (cmr) 444
1
Despark

Exile target permanent with mana value 4 or greater.

Instant
Despark (war) 190
1
Hellish Rebuke

Until end of turn, permanents your opponents control gain "When this permanent deals damage to the player who cast Hellish Rebuke, sacrifice this permanent. You lose 2 life."

Instant
Hellish Rebuke (afc) 26
1
Reverberate

Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Reverberate (m13) 145
1
Silence

Your opponents can't cast spells this turn.

Instant
Silence (m14) 35
1
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (cmr) 387
1
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
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 32
1

Land

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Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. Battlefield Forge deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (m15) 240
1
Blightstep Pathway

Land
Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway (khm) 252
1
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As Blood Crypt enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (rna) 245
1
Brightclimb Pathway

Land
Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway (znr) 259
1
Caves of Koilos

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {W} or {B}. Caves of Koilos deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Caves of Koilos (m15) 241
1
Clifftop Retreat

Clifftop Retreat enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Mountain or a Plains. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Clifftop Retreat (isd) 238
1
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
1
Dragonskull Summit

Dragonskull Summit enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Mountain. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Dragonskull Summit (xln) 252
1
Foreboding Ruins

As Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Swamp or Mountain card from your hand. If you don't, Foreboding Ruins enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Foreboding Ruins (soi) 272
1
Furycalm Snarl

As Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Mountain or Plains card from your hand. If you don't, Furycalm Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Furycalm Snarl (stx) 266
1
Godless Shrine

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) As Godless Shrine enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Godless Shrine (rna) 248
1
Haunted Ridge

Haunted Ridge enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Haunted Ridge (mid) 263
1
Isolated Chapel

Isolated Chapel enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Plains or a Swamp. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Isolated Chapel (dom) 241
1
Luxury Suite

Luxury Suite enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {B} or {R}.

Land
Luxury Suite (clb) 355
1
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (eld) 265
3
Needleverge Pathway

Land
Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 263Needleverge Pathway // Pillarverge Pathway (znr) 263
1
Nomad Outpost

Nomad Outpost enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.

Land
Nomad Outpost (c20) 294
1
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: 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
Path of Ancestry (cmr) 353
1
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (eld) 250
3
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (plst) M19-254
1
Sacred Foundry

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) As Sacred Foundry enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters the battlefield tapped.

Land
Sacred Foundry (grn) 254
1
Shattered Sanctum

Shattered Sanctum enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (vow) 264
1
Shineshadow Snarl

As Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield, you may reveal a Plains or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, Shineshadow Snarl enters the battlefield tapped. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shineshadow Snarl (stx) 272
1
Spectator Seating

Spectator Seating enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Spectator Seating (cmr) 356
1
Sulfurous Springs

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {R}. Sulfurous Springs deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Sulfurous Springs (dmu) 381
1
Sundown Pass

Sundown Pass enters the battlefield tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {R} or {W}.

Land
Sundown Pass (vow) 266
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (eld) 259
3
Throne of the High City

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Throne of the High City: You become the monarch.

Land
Throne of the High City (cn2) 80
1
Vault of Champions

Vault of Champions enters the battlefield tapped unless you have two or more opponents. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Vault of Champions (cmr) 360
1

Planeswalker

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Elspeth, Sun's Champion

+1: Create three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens. −3: Destroy all creatures with power 4 or greater. −7: You get an emblem with "Creatures you control get +2/+2 and have flying."

Planeswalker
Elspeth, Sun's Champion (ths) 9
1
Kaya, Ghost Assassin

0: Exile Kaya, Ghost Assassin or up to one target creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of your next upkeep. You lose 2 life. −1: Each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life. −2: Each opponent discards a card and you draw a card.

Planeswalker
Kaya, Ghost Assassin (cn2) 75
1
The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat. +1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step. 0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike. −4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Planeswalker
The Eternal Wanderer (one) 11
1

Sorcery

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Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (cmr) 162
1
Council's Judgment

Will of the council — Starting with you, each player votes for a nonland permanent you don't control. Exile each permanent with the most votes or tied for most votes.

Sorcery
Council's Judgment (2xm) 336
1
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
Disrupt Decorum (c17) 25
1
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 13
1
Promise of Loyalty

Each player puts a vow counter on a creature they control and sacrifices the rest. Each of those creatures can't attack you or planeswalkers you control for as long as it has a vow counter on it.

Sorcery
Promise of Loyalty (c21) 21
1
Ruinous Ultimatum

Destroy all nonland permanents your opponents control.

Sorcery
Ruinous Ultimatum (iko) 204
1
Scheming Symmetry

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

Sorcery
Scheming Symmetry (m20) 113
1
Taunt from the Rampart

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

Sorcery
Taunt from the Rampart (ltc) 71
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Rule as the monarch over your enemies, this kingdom bends to your will! This deck is based on the themes of Monarch and Politics, allowing you to make your opponents squabble over voting and petty disagreements, while you rise to power slowly but surely.\n"}]}
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