Marchesa, Political Queen of Pillows
Commander / EDH
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Catching Up —March 6, 2022
Here are some additions from the past few sets:
Kardur, Doomscourge from Kaldheim acts as a second copy of Disrupt Decorum on a creature. I swapped out Hate Mirage for this but may still try to find room for Hare Mirage again.
Silverquill from Strixhaven gave the deck a few new political toys. Inkshield is exactly the kind of aikido win condition spell the deck is looking for. I swapped Mob Rule out to make room for it though I may try to bring Mob Rule back in somehwere. Breena, the Demagogue is a perfectly political creature, incentivizing attacks elsewhere. I took out Ophiomancer as I felt the deck had enough rattlesnake and pillow fort effects. Stinging Study is a great card draw spell if you have a commander who is 4+ CMC. The deck was lacking a bit in burst card draw. I've put in Cunning Rhetoric as another card that disincentivizes attacks. I'm not completely sold on it though as I'm not sure it is a powerful enough incentive.
I replaced Austere Command with Damn from Modern Horizons 2. Damn offers great flexibility between its 2 modes.
Prosper, Tome-Bound
& Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant both come from the D&D set. Prosper performs double duty as a rattlesnake and a gradual form of card advantage. Karazikar is another goading political threat. I took out Dread and Archfiend of Despair. I was finding them to just be too expensive for what it does.
Farewell from Kamigawa replaces Merciless Eviction as pretty much a strict upgrade.
MegaMatt13 says... #2
Mickyplays, thanks for your comment! Yes, there are quite a few I'm going to test out. Court of Grace, Court of Ambition, and Emberwilde Captain are all going to be tried. I like that Court of Grace and Emberwilde Captain help protect the Monarch as well as giving you the Monarch. They synergize with the pillowfort theme. Court of Ambition doesn't protect the Monarch but does give the deck a grinding win condition. It may focus too much attention though.
Court of Ire is just too expensive at 5 mana I think. Only doing 2 damage when you're not the monarch isn't impactful enough.
November 21, 2020 11:06 a.m.
shifthappen1 says... #3
Any news from playtesting the court cards?
Also, did you ever test Archon of Coronation ? It seem like it helps protect the monarch a bit since it negates their whole attack in a way. They get the monarch, but no damage got done. This means that if they attack with too few, they'll just lose their cards to the deathtouch, and with too many, we just let them all go through for no damage and kill those that gives the most trouble with the deathtouch as needed.
I might be overevaluating it somewhat, since an opponent might as well just remove the archon at instant speed to make us lose that life instead, but it did look pretty strong in general.
March 8, 2021 5:45 a.m.
I run a Shadrix Silverquill deck like this. One card I find fun is Aurification . We have an aggressive Kaalia player at my LGS. She tends to avoid me during gameplay because of this card… Granted it can get removed and reset everything, but it’s seldom seen and does the job.
Mickyplays says... #1
Good to see you updating this deck! I've been wanting to get back into EDH and I've been eyeing this deck for quite a while :) Do you have any cards in Commander Legends that you're eyeing for the deck?
November 21, 2020 9:21 a.m.