✠ Ascendency or Ashes (Marchesa) ✠

Commander / EDH Combo Control Deathtouch Monarch Multiplayer Pillow Fort RBW (Mardu)

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Land (35)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Dust Bowl
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 3x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 4x Plains
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Spire of Industry
• 1x Strip Mine
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Temple of Triumph
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Wasteland

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Authority of the Consuls
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Story Circle

Creature (16)

• 1x Cavalier of Dawn
• 1x Divinity of Pride
• 1x Dread
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk *f-pre*
• 1x Stoneforge Mystic
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Windborn Muse

Instant (13)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Delirium
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Inkshield
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Kaldra Compleat
• 1x Orbs of Warding
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Sword of Vengeance
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Thought Vessel

Sorcery (13)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Damn
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Painful Truths
• 1x Retribution of the Meek
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Scheming Symmetry *f-pre*
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Torment of Hailfire *f-pre*
• 1x Vindicate

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Sideboard

Sorcery (15)

• 1x Armageddon
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Boom / Bust
• 1x Cataclysm
• 1x Choice of Damnations
• 1x Fumigate
• 1x Hour of Revelation
• 1x Illicit Auction
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax *f-pre*
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wrath of God

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Maybeboard

Creature (16)

• 1x Aegis of the Gods
• 1x Archangel of Tithes
• 1x Athreos, God of Passage
• 1x Drana and Linvala
• 1x Duplicant
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Nils, Discipline Enforcer
• 1x Ophiomancer
• 1x Royal Assassin
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sadistic Hypnotist
• 1x Shadrix Silverquill
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x Viscera Seer

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Burning Wish
• 1x Chandra's Ignition
• 1x Debt to the Deathless
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Farewell
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Restore Balance

Instant (5)

• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Dawn Charm
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Hatred
• 1x Mana Tithe

Land (1)

• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Leyline of Sanctity
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1x Rest in Peace
• 1x Rite of the Raging Storm
• 1x Rule of Law
• 1x Solitary Confinement

Artifact (4)

• 1x Key to the City
• 1x Sun Droplet
• 1x Thaumatic Compass  ^Flip
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

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Days past innumerable, and the roads run red with the blood of men. Friend strikes down friend, brother smites brother, swords clash as the unworthy strive for thy favor.

And when the last hath been felled, they shall prostrate themselves before thee and name thee Queen.

You are Royalty

A strong monarchy thrives on a concerted use of political trickery, ephemeral collusion, discerning favors, and good old fashioned brutality. Wielding great cunning and greater patience, royalty will carefully reward their friends and punish their adversaries, whittling their strength and teasing their resources into a position of greatest value or smallest threat to the crown.

You may have no true allies. You may have many spiteful enemies, scheming in the shadows to seize the grandeur befitting only of you. But you will not be denied your divine right to the throne. And when the time is right, you will turn their power against them and see them crumble, leaving you, the one true ruler, to erect a grim monolith of victory from their scoured, alabaster bones.

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Long May She Reign

Welcome to my one true love, a political Mardu fun-house seeking to balance aikido with control. Though flavorful to hold the monarchy, the deck has been designed to thrive equally without it, as a neat volume of tutors and additional card draw help maintain a grip full of answers to any future woes. Build an honor guard of rattlesnakes in a fortress of pillows to encourage your adversaries to pursue less backbiting targets.

Let them fight over the crown while offering favors with Scheming Symmetry, Duelist's Heritage, Maze of Ith, and Eldrazi Displacer; and culling threats with a wide suite of removal to keep the heat off. Even seeing a foe grow to incomparable proportions serves advantage, as Disrupt Decorum, Rakdos Charm, and Delerium will turn their carefully cultivated resources against them and be their downfall.

Should anyone particularly inspire wrath, send in an unblockable Master of Cruelties for summary execution, or batter them into submission with Divinity of Pride and Grave Titan.

Eventually, when the time is ripe and enough blood has been spilled, sacrifice your loyal servants and cast Blasphemous Act + Repercussion or a large Debt to the Deathless to reign eternal over a kingdom of ashes.

Currently testing a Stoneforge Mystic package to try and add some extra lethality to our Queen.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	10 months
Key combos	Blasphemous Act + Repercussion
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 2 Mythic Rares 55 - 11 Rares 10 - 2 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.02
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Golem 3/3 C, Inkling 2/1 WB, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Monarch Emblem, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Prison, I play a lot of white, Long May She Reign