Is This Heaven or Is This Hell [SLIGHTLY OUTDATED]

Commander / EDH Aikido Combo Death and Taxes Pillow Fort RBW (Mardu) Stax

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Land (35)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fetid Heath
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Kor Haven
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze of Ith
• 1x Mountain
• 2x Plains
• 1x Plateau
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Rugged Prairie
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Savai Triome
• 1x Scrubland
• 1x Silent Clearing
• 1x Strip Mine
• 1x Sunbaked Canyon
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wasteland
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Creature (20)

• 1x Avacyn, Angel of Hope
• 1x Aven Mindcensor
• 1x Dockside Extortionist
• 1x Drannith Magistrate
• 1x Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
• 1x Grand Abolisher
• 1x Heliod, Sun-Crowned
• 1x Kambal, Consul of Allocation
• 1x Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Linvala, Keeper of Silence
• 1x Mangara, the Diplomat
• 1x Mother of Runes
• 1x Restoration Angel
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Thalia, Heretic Cathar
• 1x Walking Ballista
• 1x Windborn Muse

Artifact (11)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Conviction
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Disrupt Decorum
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Merciless Eviction
• 1x Ruinous Ultimatum
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Wheel of Fortune

Commander (1)

Enchantment (15)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Blind Obedience
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Ghostly Prison
• 1x Karmic Justice
• 1x Land Tax
• 1x Luminarch Ascension
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sphere of Safety
• 1x Stolen Strategy
• 1x Stranglehold

Instant (10)

• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Boros Charm
• 1x Deflecting Swat
• 1x Enlightened Tutor
• 1x Flawless Maneuver
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection
• 1x Utter End
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

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Enchantment (2)

• 1x Duelist's Heritage
• 1x Wound Reflection

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Armageddon

Artifact (1)

• 1x Fellwar Stone

Land (2)

• 1x Karakas
• 1x Serra's Sanctum

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Daretti, Ingenious Iconoclast

Instant (1)

• 1x Chaos Warp

Creature (1)

• 1x Xantcha, Sleeper Agent

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An optimized casual Queen Marchesa list that runs packages of pillow fort, death and taxes/stax, pure politics, aikido, and combo cards. This is heaven for you, and truly hell for your opponents! Make sure to visit my page to check out my other decks and a budget version of this deck!

Below is a brief summary of the deck, enjoy!

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This runs the standard pillow fort package that typical Queen Marchesa decks run in Sphere of Safety, Ghostly Prison, and Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs among other cards.

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Our death and taxes/stax package includes Aven Mindcensor, Blind Obedience, Grand Abolisher, Kambal, Consul of Allocation and a few more.

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Queen Marchesa is a political commander by nature, so we run cards like Disrupt Decorum and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight (which is also part of the pillow fort package) and also things like Shadowspear that assist opponents in killing indestructible or hexproof creatures.

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The aikido package is Stolen Strategy as well as Animate Dead and Necromancy which can both steal enemies dead baddies. They can also be recurred with Sun Titan.

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And our combo package is small because combo makes for boring games (but can win the game out of nowhere) and it consists of these:

Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and Restoration Angel which produces infinite copies of Restoration Angel.

Our next infinite combo is Heliod, Sun-Crowned with Walking Ballista resulting in infinite pings and life.

Non-Infinite:

We run Crucible of Worlds to synergize with Strip Mine, Wasteland, Armageddon (IF you choose to play it), our Horizon lands, and our fetch lands.

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As far as main win conditions go, our inclusions are Luminarch Ascension, Bloodchief Ascension, ^^ our combos ^^, and Disrupt Decorum.

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If you like the deck please leave an upvote and also please leave any suggestions or advice down in the comments for me as I am always looking to improve this deck!

Top Ranked	Achieved #8 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #5 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Combo 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Death and Taxes 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	14 - 0 Mythic Rares 66 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 2 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.94
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Copy Clone, Ogre 3/3 R, Spirit 1/1 C, Monarch Emblem, Treasure
Folders	Mardu EDH, inspiration, Decks I Like, Combo Deck, EDH, DEcks I like