Queen Marchesa Aikido

Commander / EDH Aikido Control Multiplayer Pillow Fort RBW (Mardu)

Seabody

Land (34)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Clifftop Retreat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Hall of Heliod's Generosity
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Mistveil Plains
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reflecting Pool
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Volrath's Stronghold
• 1x Windswept Heath

Wincon (6)

• 1x Bruse Tarl, Boorish Herder *f-etch*
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Master of Cruelties
• 1x Repercussion
• 1x Wound Reflection

Card Advantage (14)

• 1x Academy Rector
• 1x Burning Wish
• 1x Demonic TutorGC
• 1x Enlightened TutorGC
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition
• 1x NecropotenceGC
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Scroll Rack
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sunforger
• 1x Underworld BreachGC
• 1x Weathered Wayfarer
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Control (12)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Arcbond
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Despark
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Hide / Seek
• 1x Kunoros, Hound of Athreos
• 1x Lapse of Certainty
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Red Elemental Blast
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Terminate

Pillow Fort (10)

• 1x Delaying Shield
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Michiko Konda, Truth Seeker
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Phyrexian Unlife
• 1x Solemnity
• 1x Teferi's ProtectionGC
• 1x Vampire Nighthawk

Commander (1)

Aikido (12)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Comeuppance
• 1x Deflecting Palm
• 1x Deflecting SwatGC
• 1x Delirium
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Mirage Mirror
• 1x Price of Progress
• 1x Rakdos Charm
• 1x Reverberate

Ramp (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Boros Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Smothering TitheGC
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Thought Vessel

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Sideboard

Other (11)

• 1x Acidic Soil
• 1x Austere Command
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Mythos of Snapdax
• 1x Open the Armory
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Rolling Earthquake
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Vindicate
• 1x Winds of Abandon

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Maybeboard

Other (6)

• 1x Generous Gift
• 1x Gift of Estates
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Mana Confluence

Control (3)

• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Shadowspear

Card Advantage (2)

• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Twilight Prophet

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My Queen Marchesa Aikido list. My group allows for a wishboard - hence in inclusion of Burning Wish and Mastermind's Acquisition.

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Top Ranked	Achieved #30 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #17 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Control 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Pillow Fort 5 years ago
Date added	5 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 59 - 8 Rares 21 - 3 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.83
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Marit Lage, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	EDH Decks