Marchesa, friendship destroyer (edh primer) (Commander / EDH MTG Deck)

Marchesa, friendship destroyer (edh primer)

Commander / EDH Control Death and Taxes Multiplayer Pillow Fort RBW (Mardu) Stax

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Land (36)

Instant (9)

Creature (21)

Artifact (11)

Commander (1)

Enchantment (12)

Sorcery (8)

Planeswalker (2)

Maybeboard

Enchantment (2)

Sorcery (1)

1x Kaya's Wrath

Are you tired of your ultra-aggro playgroup and you want tax them to the bone? so Queen Marchesa is the commander that you want! Jokes aside, this Mardu commander can be really fun to play if you like control decks (a bit less for your opponents). Are you interested on how this deck works? below you can find a little primer on how play Marchesa.

Why play a Mardu deck?

Because Mardu is one of the more versatile color combination of the entire game! Red gives you access to potential threats, black allow you to draw, remove danger creatures and retrieve from the graveyard and white is great for keeping your opponents in stalemate. A combination of colors really nice for a control deck. If you are already familiar with Magic and you don't mind a three color deck, below you can see if this is the deck for you. You might like play this deck if:

You like have a toolbox deck for every eventuality
you like to work on your strategy slowly, safe behind your defenses
you want bring your opponents to fight each other for inertia

You may not like playing this deck if:

You prefer explosives and fast decks that try to win if few turns
you prefer the ramp, without the green this deck have no ramp, just mana rocks
you hate long games and have almost always the attenction of the table on you.

Why Queen Marchesa?

Like I said, Mardu is a really versatile colors combination, but how whe choose our commander? well, It depends on your playstyle, and the choices are so much. Unless you are new at Commander, surely you know Kaalia of the Vast , one of the strong Mardu (and ever) commanders; or the uncle Edgar Markov , that in a vampire tribal deck can be just lethal. However what we need is a commander that can help us over the time... and who better than Queen Marchesa can do it? With a relatively low cost of 4 mana, Markesa have nice abilities like Haste and, more important, Deathtouch, a really useful ability (especially if combined with First strike, and we have many ways to givi it to her). But what really make this commander interesting arrive now. When Marchesa enter in the battlefield, you became the monarch. What mean be the monarch? just that until you don't get damage, at the end of your turn you can draw a card ... so sweet, if you think that this deck is full of "pillows", a free card is always appreciated! Lastly, her last ability sais that, if at the begging of your turn you are no more the monarch, you may put for free a 1/1 black assassin token with deathtouch, this mean that dosn't matter if you are or not the monarch on your turn, you will always profit from her. Maybe she is not a so lethal commander like uncle Edgar, but having a constant influx of free tokens or extra card draw in a control deck is definitely the best choice!

Card categories

here I will separate the cards of the deck in more categories, to help you understand how to manage them:

How play the deck

The strategy for this deck is simpler than it may seem:

On the first part of the game, your purpose would be axcelerate your mana more that you can, to cast your commander at least on turn three, so you can take advantage from here as soon as possible; begin with a Sol Ring or a Fellwar Stone would be great. Another way to get mana fastly is Land Tax . If you need protection for your commander or for some key creatures, you may play a couple of di Swiftfoot Boots and Lightning Greaves , if instead you want begin draw from now, a Phyrexian Arena is what you are searching.

The strategy now depend on what we have on our hands, if you prefer a more obstructionist approach, Thalia, Heretic Cathar or a Aven Mindcensor will annoy several players, while Authority of the Consuls and Blind Obedience slows down the rest of the table considerably. If instead you have in mind a more difensive strategy (not immediately attract the ire of the table can be a good thing) you may count on your pillowforts, like Ghostly Prison , Windborn Muse or Sphere of Safety , that will make you a difficult target for a long time. If you however need to remove some annoying cards, the deck have removals for any kind of problem: Path to Exile for an annoying creature, Wear / Tear for a enchantent or an artifact, or a nice Utter End for everything you have in mind to destroy.

At this point if everything went the right way, out opponents our particularly irritated adversaries can not help but kill each other, unable to attack us, waiting the right moment to get revenge on us...and we will find ourselves ready. No Mercy will punish anyone who plans to attack us, while Archfiend of Depravity will hurt aggro decks. From here we can take it easy and prepare our strategy to close the game. After letting a couple of opponents kill each other, it will be easier for us to win the game, Assemble the Legion provides us slowly and inexorably a numerical advantage not to be ignored, Luminarch Ascension can be a wincon from itself, while Skyline Despot can give us some flying big guys. The choice of how end the game is your, the fun will be assured.

I really hope to be helpful to you, for any further questions or advice, please let me know, it is always welcome!

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Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 49 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.27
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Dragon 5/5 R, Emblem Elspeth, Sun's Champion, Ogre 3/3 R, Snake 1/1 B, Soldier 1/1 RW, Soldier 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Monarch Emblem
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