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The Queen
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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

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Breena, the Demagogue

Flying Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents, if that opponent has more life than another of your opponents, that attacking player draws a card and you put two +1/+1 counters on a creature you control.

Creature
Breena, the Demagogue (otc) 217
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
Court of Grace (onc) 62
Cunning Rhetoric

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.

Enchantment
Cunning Rhetoric (otc) 129
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
Emberwilde Captain (cmr) 175
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
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to one of your opponents, its controller may pay 1 life. If they do, they draw a card. {4}{B}{B}{B}, Discard X cards: Exile the top X cards of target opponent's library. You may play lands and cast spells from among cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.

Creature
Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor (bro) 95
Gonti, Lord of Luxury

Deathtouch When Gonti enters, look at the top four cards of target opponent's library, exile one of them face down, then put the rest on the bottom of that library in a random order. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Gonti, Lord of Luxury (otc) 135
Humble Defector

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

Creature
Humble Defector (otc) 170
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
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
Skyline Despot (cmm) 254
Starscream, Power Hungry

Creature Artifact
Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader (bot) 5
Wedding Ring

When this artifact enters, if it was cast, target opponent creates a token that's a copy of it. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring draws a card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring gains life during their turn, you gain that much life.

Artifact
Wedding Ring (who) 213

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Protection

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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
Boros Charm (otc) 216
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 (mkc) 205
Ghostly Prison

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

Enchantment
Ghostly Prison (mkc) 67
Grand Abolisher

During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.

Creature
Grand Abolisher (big) 2
Inkshield

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to you this turn. For each 1 damage prevented this way, create a 2/1 white and black Inkling creature token with flying.

Instant
Inkshield (dsc) 221
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 (mkc) 157
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
Selfless Spirit

Flying Sacrifice this creature: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Creature
Selfless Spirit (blc) 153
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
Without Weakness

Target creature you control gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it. If its toughness is 0 or less, it's still put into its owner's graveyard.) Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Without Weakness (hou) 81

Protection

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Stax

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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 tapped.

Enchantment
Blind Obedience (rvr) 9

Stax

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Anthem

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Flowering of the White Tree

Legendary creatures you control get +2/+1 and have ward {1}. Nonlegendary creatures you control get +1/+1.

Enchantment
Flowering of the White Tree (ltr) 15

Anthem

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Finisher

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Sire of Seven Deaths

First strike, vigilance Menace, trample Reach, lifelink Ward—Pay 7 life.

Creature
Sire of Seven Deaths (fdn) 1
Unstoppable Slasher

Deathtouch Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, they lose half their life, rounded up. When this creature dies, if it had no counters on it, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with two stun counters on it.

Creature
Unstoppable Slasher (dsk) 119

Finisher

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (drc) 52
Crime Novelist

Whenever you sacrifice an artifact, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and add {R}.

Creature
Crime Novelist (mkm) 121
Curse of Opulence

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, create a Gold token. Each opponent attacking that player does the same. (A Gold token is an artifact with "Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Curse of Opulence (mkc) 150
Hoard Robber

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Hoard Robber (afr) 110
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (mh3) 292
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (drc) 133
Orzhov Signet

{1}, {T}: Add {W}{B}.

Artifact
Orzhov Signet (drc) 134
Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Pearl Medallion (mh3) 294
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
Rev, Tithe Extractor

Whenever you attack, target creature gains deathtouch until end of turn. Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token, then look at the top card of that player's library and exile it face down. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled. (A Treasure token is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Rev, Tithe Extractor (j25) 45
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 token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (cmm) 57
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (drc) 56
Starfield Mystic

Enchantment spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever an enchantment you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

Creature
Starfield Mystic (j25) 260
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

Ramp

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Theft

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Brainstealer Dragon

Flying At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of each opponent's library. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled. If you cast a spell this way, you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it. Whenever a nonland permanent an opponent owns enters the battlefield under your control, they lose life equal to its mana value.

Creature
Brainstealer Dragon (otc) 127
Court of Locthwain

When this enchantment enters, 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 this enchantment without paying its mana cost.

Enchantment
Court of Locthwain (woc) 23
Dream-Thief's Bandana

Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of their library, then exile it face down. For as long as it remains exiled, you may play it, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. Equip {1}

Artifact
Dream-Thief's Bandana (otc) 38
Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Deathtouch Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Creature
Tinybones, the Pickpocket (otj) 109

Theft

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Land

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Battlefield Forge

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {R} or {W}. This land deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Battlefield Forge (blc) 293
Command Tower

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

Land
Command Tower (drc) 60
Exotic Orchard

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

Land
Exotic Orchard (drc) 155
Maze of Ith

{T}: Untap target attacking creature. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by that creature this turn.

Land
Maze of Ith (dmr) 250
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (dft) 286
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (dft) 277
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 (dmc) 233
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284

Land

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Removal

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Damn

Destroy target creature. A creature destroyed this way can't be regenerated. Overload {2}{W}{W} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Damn (drc) 89
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (mb2) 15
Termination Facilitator

{T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature or planeswalker. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature or planeswalker an opponent controls with a bounty counter on it is dealt damage, destroy it.

Creature
Termination Facilitator (j22) 28

Removal

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Tokens

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Academy Manufactor

If you would create a Clue, Food, or Treasure token, instead create one of each.

Creature Artifact
Academy Manufactor (blc) 264
Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred
Bitterblossom (2x2) 69
Charismatic Conqueror

Vigilance Whenever an artifact or creature an opponent controls enters untapped, they may tap that permanent. If they don't, you create a 1/1 white Vampire creature token with lifelink.

Creature
Charismatic Conqueror (lcc) 70
The Jolly Balloon Man

Haste {1}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of another target creature you control, except it's a 1/1 red Balloon creature in addition to its other colors and types and it has flying and haste. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
The Jolly Balloon Man (dsk) 219

Tokens

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Discard

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Angrath, the Flame-Chained

+1: Each opponent discards a card and loses 2 life. −3: Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step if it has mana value 3 or less. −8: Each opponent loses life equal to the number of cards in their graveyard.

Planeswalker
Angrath, the Flame-Chained (rix) 152
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
Court of Ambition (cmr) 114
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it. During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells. {3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar (fdn) 72

Discard

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Lifegain

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Bishop's Soldier

Lifelink (Damage dealt by this creature also causes you to gain that much life.)

Creature
Bishop's Soldier (j25) 174
Ocelot Pride

First strike, lifelink Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.) At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.

Creature
Ocelot Pride (mh3) 38

Lifegain

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Sorcery

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Blasphemous Edict

You may pay {B} rather than pay this spell's mana cost if there are thirteen or more creatures on the battlefield. Each player sacrifices thirteen creatures of their choice.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Edict (fdn) 57
Idyllic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Idyllic Tutor (thb) 24

Sorcery

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Tutor

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Gamble

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, discard a card at random, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Gamble (dmr) 121
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (m21) 103

Tutor

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Sideboard

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Bounty Board

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Put a bounty counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. Whenever a creature with a bounty counter on it dies, each of its controller's opponents draws a card and gains 2 life.

Artifact
Bounty Board (otc) 37
Fellwar Stone

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

Artifact
Fellwar Stone (dsc) 245

Sideboard

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Maybeboard

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Ancient Copper Dragon

Flying Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of Treasure tokens equal to the result.

Creature
Ancient Copper Dragon (clb) 161
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
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Deathtouch Mystic Arcanum — At the beginning of your end step, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card. Pact Boon — Whenever you play a card from exile, create a Treasure token.

Creature
Prosper, Tome-Bound (afc) 2
Prosperous Bandit

Offspring {1} (You may pay an additional {1} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.) First strike Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, create that many tapped Treasure tokens.

Creature
Prosperous Bandit (blc) 25
Sorin Markov

+2: Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life. −3: Target opponent's life total becomes 10. −7: You control target player during that player's next turn.

Planeswalker
Sorin Markov (plst) M12-109
Sword of Light and Shadow

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from white and from black. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you gain 3 life and you may return up to one target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Light and Shadow (acr) 100
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. {3}: Xantcha's controller loses 2 life and you draw a card. Any player may activate this ability.

Creature
Xantcha, Sleeper Agent (sld) 1271

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Deck Info

Deck stats

31 pips - 26 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
32 pips - 24 cards
19 mana - 19 cards
16 pips - 14 cards
20 mana - 20 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
0 mana - 8 cards
0 pips - 0 cards
3 mana - 2 cards
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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"In my pod, I have always found the games where one player has cards forcing combat (like the monarch) to be the most interesting matches. So, I have created a means of facilitating that!\n\nThe goal of this deck is to use the monarch mechanic as a means to keep your opponents fighting eachother until it is benificial for you to reclaim your throne. In order to do this, by the endgame, you can blink or copy Marchesa or use other monarch crowning cards to retake the throne by the end of your turn so you can still create the deathtouch tokens for blockers and draw a card. Since Marchesa is renown for having weak win-cons, I have added the ability to steal your opponents cards with Rev, Gonti, and Tinybones. This will ensure that you can have other win conditions besides combat. Because your win depends on the cards you steal, and how combat focused your pod is, the deck itself is not very strong. Although it has some strong cards, the overall lack of self provided win-cons should leave this deck in the power level 2 bracket. However, as I continue to learn, I will update this deck as I find better cards to help you confidently earn victory. \n"}]}
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