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Queen Marchessa: Aggro
Deck Size: 100
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Est deck cost: $1130.88
Salt sum: 35.25
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Commander

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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.

Creature
Queen Marchesa (otc) 239

Commander

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Protection

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Bathe in Light

Radiance — Choose a color. Target creature and each other creature that shares a color with it gain protection from the chosen color until end of turn.

Instant
Bathe in Light (cma) 6
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (khc) 22
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

Protection

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Creatures

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Baneslayer Angel

Flying, first strike, lifelink, protection from Demons and from Dragons

Creature
Baneslayer Angel (m21) 6
Battle Angels of Tyr

Flying, myriad Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card if that player has more cards in hand than each other player. Then you create a Treasure token if that player controls more lands than each other player. Then you gain 3 life if that player has more life than each other player.

Creature
Battle Angels of Tyr (clb) 9
Beza, the Bounding Spring

When Beza enters, create a Treasure token if an opponent controls more lands than you. You gain 4 life if an opponent has more life than you. Create two 1/1 blue Fish creature tokens if an opponent controls more creatures than you. Draw a card if an opponent has more cards in hand than you.

Creature
Beza, the Bounding Spring (blb) 2
Gisela, the Broken Blade

Flying, first strike, lifelink At the beginning of your end step, if you both own and control Gisela and a creature named Bruna, the Fading Light, exile them, then meld them into Brisela, Voice of Nightmares.

Creature
Gisela, the Broken Blade (inr) 24
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel

Flying, lifelink Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step. If a creature an opponent controls would die, exile it instead.

Creature
Liesa, Forgotten Archangel (inr) 243
Lyra Dawnbringer

Flying First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.) Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.) Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and have lifelink.

Creature
Lyra Dawnbringer (fdn) 707
Mother of Runes

{T}: Target creature you control gains protection from the color of your choice until end of turn.

Creature
Mother of Runes (clb) 702
Nighthawk Scavenger

Flying, deathtouch, lifelink Nighthawk Scavenger's power is equal to 1 plus the number of card types among cards in your opponents' graveyards.

Creature
Nighthawk Scavenger (otc) 144
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When this creature enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, this creature deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 103
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107

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Ramp

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Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Claim Jumper

Vigilance When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card and put it onto the battlefield tapped. Then if an opponent controls more lands than you, repeat this process once. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Creature
Claim Jumper (otj) 8
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
Ecologist's Terrarium

When this artifact enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact
Ecologist's Terrarium (neo) 246
Knight of the White Orchid

First strike When this creature enters, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Creature
Knight of the White Orchid (moc) 193
Legion's Landing

Enchantment
Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort (plst) XLN-22Legion's Landing // Adanto, the First Fort (plst) XLN-22
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer

Whenever Ragavan deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token and exile the top card of that player's library. Until end of turn, you may cast that card. Dash {1}{R} (You may cast this spell for its dash cost. If you do, it gains haste, and it's returned from the battlefield to its owner's hand at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer (mh2) 138
Renegade Map

This artifact enters tapped. {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Renegade Map (aer) 173
Surveyor's Scope

{T}, Exile this artifact: Search your library for up to X basic land cards, where X is the number of players who control at least two more lands than you. Put those cards onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Artifact
Surveyor's Scope (cma) 232
Thaumatic Compass

Artifact
Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249Thaumatic Compass // Spires of Orazca (plst) XLN-249
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (pip) 252

Ramp

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Draw

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Akiri, Fearless Voyager

Whenever you attack a player with one or more equipped creatures, draw a card. {W}: You may unattach an Equipment from a creature you control. If you do, tap that creature and it gains indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Akiri, Fearless Voyager (cmm) 335
Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Court of Ardenvale

When this enchantment enters, 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
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Firemane Commando

Flying Whenever you attack with two or more creatures, draw a card. Whenever another player attacks with two or more creatures, they draw a card if none of those creatures attacked you.

Creature
Firemane Commando (moc) 73
Forth Eorlingas!

Create X 2/2 red Human Knight creature tokens with trample and haste. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to one or more players this turn, you become the monarch.

Sorcery
Forth Eorlingas! (ltc) 56
Puresteel Paladin

Whenever an Equipment you control enters, you may draw a card. Metalcraft — Equipment you control have equip {0} as long as you control three or more artifacts.

Creature
Puresteel Paladin (pip) 170
Seasoned Dungeoneer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. Whenever you attack, target attacking Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, or Wizard gains protection from creatures until end of turn. It explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on the creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

Creature
Seasoned Dungeoneer (clb) 660
Sram, Senior Edificer

Whenever you cast an Aura, Equipment, or Vehicle spell, draw a card.

Creature
Sram, Senior Edificer (nec) 88
Stoneforge Mystic

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. {1}{W}, {T}: You may put an Equipment card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Creature
Stoneforge Mystic (2xm) 31
Thorough Investigation

Whenever you attack, investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.") Whenever you sacrifice a Clue, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Enchantment
Thorough Investigation (afc) 12
Triumphant Adventurer

Deathtouch During your turn, this creature has first strike. Whenever this creature attacks, venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Creature
Triumphant Adventurer (afr) 237
Trouble in Pairs

If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead. Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.

Enchantment
Trouble in Pairs (mkc) 15
White Plume Adventurer

When this creature enters, you take the initiative. At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, untap a creature you control. If you've completed a dungeon, untap all creatures you control instead.

Creature
White Plume Adventurer (clb) 49

Draw

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Sorcery

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Ondu Inversion

Sorcery
Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (plst) ZNR-30Ondu Inversion // Ondu Skyruins (plst) ZNR-30

Sorcery

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Equipment

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Angelic Gift

Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature has flying.

Enchantment
Angelic Gift (j25) 165
Bladed Pinions

Equipped creature has flying and first strike. Equip {2}

Artifact
Bladed Pinions (som) 140
Brotherhood Regalia

Equipped creature has ward {2}, is an Assassin in addition to its other types, and can't be blocked. Equip legendary creature {1} Equip {3} ({3}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Brotherhood Regalia (acr) 71
Chariot of Victory

Equipped creature has first strike, trample, and haste. Equip {1}

Artifact
Chariot of Victory (jou) 159
Enlightened Tutor

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

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 6
Feather of Flight

Flash Enchant creature When this Aura enters, draw a card. Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has flying.

Enchantment
Feather of Flight (blb) 13
Mask of Memory

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may draw two cards. If you do, discard a card. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Mask of Memory (onc) 136
Open the Armory

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

Sorcery
Open the Armory (cmr) 34
Sharpened Pitchfork

Equipped creature has first strike. As long as equipped creature is a Human, it gets +1/+1. Equip {1}

Artifact
Sharpened Pitchfork (ddq) 32
Steelshaper's Gift

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

Sorcery
Steelshaper's Gift (cmm) 59
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (fdn) 258
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 {2}

Artifact
Sword of the Animist (cmm) 413
Tenza, Godo's Maul

Equipped creature gets +1/+1. As long as it's legendary, it gets an additional +2/+2. As long as it's red, it has trample. Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Tenza, Godo's Maul (dmc) 193
The Spear of Leonidas

Whenever equipped creature attacks, choose one — • Bull Rush — It gains double strike until end of turn. • Summon — Create Phobos, a legendary 3/2 red Horse creature token. • Revelation — Discard two cards, then draw two cards. Equip {2}

Artifact
The Spear of Leonidas (acr) 38
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (otc) 269
Viridian Claw

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has first strike. Equip {1}

Artifact
Viridian Claw (plst) MBS-143
Zephyr Boots

Equipped creature has flying. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card, then discard a card. Equip {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Zephyr Boots (stx) 261

Equipment

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Tutor

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Arc Spitter

Equipped creature has "{1}: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature that's blocking it." Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Arc Spitter (snc) 233
Champion's Helm

Equipped creature gets +2/+2. As long as equipped creature is legendary, it has hexproof. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.) Equip {1}

Artifact
Champion's Helm (pip) 228
Kellan, the Fae-Blooded

Creature
Kellan, the Fae-Blooded // Birthright Boon (woe) 230
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 (blc) 145
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat

Menace At the beginning of your end step, if you have the initiative, create a Treasure token. Create three of those tokens instead if you've completed a dungeon. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Safana, Calimport Cutthroat (clb) 143

Tutor

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Land

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Arena of Glory

This land enters tapped unless you control a Mountain. {T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}, Exert this land: Add {R}{R}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste until end of turn. (An exerted permanent won't untap during your next untap step.)

Land
Arena of Glory (mh3) 215
Arid Mesa

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Mountain or Plains card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Arid Mesa (mh2) 244
Blood Crypt

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

Land
Blood Crypt (rvr) 273
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (mh3) 216
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (pz1) 135
Boros Garrison

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {R}{W}.

Land
Boros Garrison (clu) 231
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (pip) 259
Dormant Volcano

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Mountain you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{R}.

Land
Dormant Volcano (cm2) 246
Eiganjo Castle

{T}: Add {W}. {W}, {T}: Prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to target legendary creature this turn.

Land
Eiganjo Castle (chk) 275
Elegant Parlor

({T}: Add {R} or {W}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Elegant Parlor (mkm) 260
Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (zen) 213
Everglades

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{B}.

Land
Everglades (c14) 294
Godless Shrine

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

Land
Godless Shrine (rvr) 277
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (pz1) 141
Karoo

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Plains you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {C}{W}.

Land
Karoo (c14) 303
Marsh Flats

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Plains or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Marsh Flats (mh2) 437
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 256
Orzhov Basilica

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Land
Orzhov Basilica (dsc) 292
Rakdos Carnarium

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{R}.

Land
Rakdos Carnarium (clu) 243
Raucous Theater

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Raucous Theater (mkm) 266
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (who) 296
Sacred Foundry

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

Land
Sacred Foundry (rvr) 285
Savai Triome

({T}: Add {R}, {W}, or {B}.) This land enters tapped. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Savai Triome (iko) 253
Shadowy Backstreet

({T}: Add {W} or {B}.) This land enters tapped. When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Land
Shadowy Backstreet (mkm) 268
Shattered Sanctum

This land enters tapped unless you control two or more other lands. {T}: Add {W} or {B}.

Land
Shattered Sanctum (inr) 283
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

{T}: Add {R}. {R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Land
Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep (chk) 282
Shizo, Death's Storehouse

{T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains fear until end of turn. (It can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Land
Shizo, Death's Storehouse (chk) 283
Snow-Covered Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Mountain (mb2) 119
Snow-Covered Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Plains (mb2) 116
Snow-Covered Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Snow-Covered Swamp (mb2) 118
Temple of the False God

{T}: Add {C}{C}. Activate only if you control five or more lands.

Land
Temple of the False God (pip) 311
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Deck Info

Deck stats

49 pips - 38 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
9 pips - 7 cards
16 mana - 16 cards
6 pips - 6 cards
16 mana - 14 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 2 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
8 mana - 7 cards
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Description

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