The Queen’s Accursed Control

Commander / EDH Casual Control Multiplayer RBW (Mardu)

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Land (38)

Creature (5)

Instant (21)

Sorcery (11)

Planeswalker (1)

1x Nahiri, the Harbinger

Commander (1)

Enchantment (13)

Artifact (10)

Maybeboard

Creature (30)

Enchantment (30)

Sorcery (30)

Planeswalker (30)

Artifact (30)

Land (30)

Instant (30)

Gameplan

Ramp with 1-2 mana rocks early game. Drop Queen Marchesa hopefully with a removal spell or two. Make sure you always reclaim the monarchy within a turn or so. Maybe make a deal to switch the monarchy back and forwarth with someone if you can, to can build up some assassins. Answer stuff for a while. Eventually win. Currently in a mid power level meta.

Ramp

Mana Rocks

Boros Signet , Fellwar Stone , Orzhov Signet , Rakdos Signet , Talisman of Indulgence , Thought Vessel , Victory Chimes
Fairly self explanatory. Talisman of Indulgence also gives colorless, Thought Vessel lets you durdle harder, and the signets are nice and simple ramp.
Victory Chimes costs a bit more and gives you no colored mana but untapping on everyone’s turn combined with a lot of instant removal means you it generally nets you a fair bit of mana. What’s more, you can use it to donate mana to others.

Flip to Lands

Thaumatic Compass , Path of Mettle , Dowsing Dagger , Treasure Map
Thaumatic Compass is self explanatory.
Path of Mettle takes a little bit of work but it’s worth it.First cast Marchesa.Then let the crown get taken(don’t block, offer to exchange it with an opponent, whatever).Make sure to keep Marchesa alive though. On your turn Marchesa spits out a token. Slam Path of Mettle , attack with your token and Marchesa(probably at whoever had the crown) and flip it because Marchesa and the token both have haste.The land gives you ramp and a bit of bargaining power(the tower noticeably doesn’t care whom the creatures attacked)All is well.
Dowsing Dagger is pretty simple. Gives you a little favor from whoever you give the plants and you’ll just end up procing it naturally at some point generally. Gives you a nice big ramp boost.
Treasure Map smooths out your early draws, then flips giving a bit of extra ramp. Also lets you draw some extra cards if you need to.

Removal

Creature Removal

Swords to Plowshares , Path to Exile , Anguished Unmaking , Illicit Auction , Pyroblast , Deadly Designs , Profane Procession , Utter End , Hero's Downfall , Nahiri, the Harbinger
These are mostly pretty simple. You play them, they can kill creatures. Decent portion can also remove permenants that are other types.
Deadly Designs is probably not the optimal choice, however it increases cross player interactions and is just general fun. Generally you want to get a different player to put on the final counter which generally can direct some ire away from you.
Illicit Auction also falls into the same category. You will rarely win the auction, but that’s fine. Someone generally gets domed for a fair bit and whoever got their dude taken(often their commander) gets a new target. With the commander given to a deck that isn’t based around it, it’s much less of a threat generally. Also, sometimes if you have a significant enough life advantage you can just flat steal a scary creature.
Pyroblast and Red Elemental Blast should generally be saved to be used as counters. You have plenty of creature removal and wraths, but your counters are fairly limited.

Enchantment Removal

Anguished Unmaking , Utter End , Return to Dust , Nahiri, the Harbinger , Seek
No real dedicated enchantment removal in the deck, though a couple of your wraths can also clean them up. If you need more for your meta Allay provides it repeatably. In addition Cleansing Nova could also probably replace Fumigate as a 5 mana wrath with some additional upside. Aura of Silence is also pretty nice. White in general is not a color lacking in enchanment removal
Seek gets a special mention for both removing enchantments in a way that doesn’t let Replenish and the like get it back, as well as stopping combos and giving you a bit of life.

Artifact Removal

Vandalblast , Utter End , Shattering Pulse , Anguished Unmaking , Return to Dust , Rakdos Charm , Nahiri, the Harbinger , Seek
Pretty boring, but it works. Red is helpful for once and adds a artifact wipe in Vandalblast as well as repeatable artifact removal in Shattering Pulse Also Rakdos Charm which just does everything
Again Seek gets extra mention for more permanently removing the artifact, as well as providing a bit of combo hate and gaining life
In the case that just a tad more artifact removal is necessary, Cleansing Nova can slot in over one of the other wraths. Outside of that, both red and white have plenty of artifact hate for those who need it.

Board Wipes

Austere Command , Settle the Wreckage , Ruinous Ultimatum , Rout , Merciless Eviction , Play of the Game
2 that just wipe creatures, 2 you get to choose, 2 that just removes everything. 3 of them exile. 2 can be instant speed.
Play of the Game gets special mention due to helping bind you to another player. Nothing else to say though-wraths are wraths.

Counters

Blue Hate

Red Elemental Blast , Pyroblast
Blue is the generally agreed upon strongest color on commander. As such you can generally expect atleast a few people at your table to have a commander with blue in it. If that’s the case maindecking a bit of hate makes sense.These cards provide a unique and powerful effect. They should be red staples in general
In addition non blue control decks can be weak to blue control decks due to the blue deck having counters and the nonblue deck...just not having them. Counters mean the blue deck can set up their combos with much more protection and stop those of the nonblue deck. Maindecking these helps evens the playing field slightly
You also gain a large suprise factor. If a blue player sees no other blue players they might feel completely safe to slam a big blue spell(like Expropriate )This gives a window to assault them when they are tapped out.

Soft Counters

Mana Tithe , Lapse of Certainty
These counters mostly rely on the suprise factor. Mana Tithe has become relatively well known, but people still tend to not play around it.
Lapse of Certainty can help by either putting the nail in the coffin of a player or by giving the rest of the table another turn to bring down the archenemy. Either way, even in commander Memory Lapse works pretty well. If you add a way to shuffle their deck(like Madblind Mountain which is not included in this deck due to the lack of red permenants, though it still might be worth it as you can get to two via an assassin token and Marchesa)than it just becomes a hard counter which is nice.

Hard Counters

Illumination , Warping Wail , Withering Boon
Warping Wail takes a wee amount of tuning to the mana base to support but it’s well worth it. Pretty much every color has monstrous sorceries to counter. Blue has Time Stretch and Expropriate , Red has Insurrection , Green Primal Surge or Wave of Vitriol sometimes, Black Rise of the Dark Realms , White Armageddon among others. In addition Warping Wail can also make a chump blocker or exile a small creature
When looking at Withering Boon and Illumination it must be asked why to play them over say Go for the Throat and Disenchant . After all they both remove the same sorts of cards but the former have a downside while the latter do not(I mean the 2 mana black removals do generally have restrictions but also...)and can be cast to remove the threatening permenant at any time. Unlike a counterspell, a removal spell can be saved until the offending permenant is a threat. So why would you play these restricted counters? The answer is that counters can a)dodge around ETB and LTB effects(though be wary of on cast effects) and b)dodge around removal resistang keywords(hexproof, indestructible etc.) As such, Withering Boon and Illumination earn their keep.

## Graveyard Hate

Incidental Graveyard Hate

Bojuka Bog , Scavenger Grounds
What a suprise, free graveyard hate in the mana base is good. That’s all.

Dedicated Graveyard Hate

Rakdos Charm , Rest in Peace
Graveyard decks are scary. Nihil Spellbomb or Relic of Progenitus are both nice to bring in if its a graveyard heavy meta. There is exactly one card in this deck that care about using the graveyard( Emrakul, the Promised End ) so you can go nuclear on graveyards with Rest in Peace . Also Rakdos Charm is a great versatile card. Not much else to say.

## Defense

Damage Prevention

Ghostly Prison , Solitary Confinement , Chronomantic Escape , Comeuppance
Solitary Confinement gets special mention because while you are the Monarch it can be kept indefinitely, though you will just stay neutral on cards. As such while hiding in the bubble you must be careful about using cards. Eventually you can draw into a Approach of the Second Sun or another win condition to win. Very nice.

Lifegain

Resolute Archangel , Axis of Mortality
Resolute Archangel is nice for resetting you back from chip after a wipe. People want the monarchy and a way to restore after weathering the assault is nice.

## Win Conditions

Main Win Conditions

Approach of the Second Sun , Emrakul, the Promised End , Nahiri, the Harbinger , Kozilek, the Great Distortion
Approach of the Second Sun is just a way to end the game
The two Eldrazi are notable because they have cast triggers as opposed to enter the battlefield. That means they are much more counterspell resistant atleast. Kozilek, the Great Distortion can counter a fairly wide array of spells and gives a way to throw out curses stuck in hand. Nahiri, the Harbinger can bring them out as with her ult, while also being a fairly versatile removal spell and providing a bit of filtering. She can also search up Resolute Archangel for a life reset or Bitterheart Witch to set up the curse chain.

Curse Package

Bitterheart Witch , Curse of Misfortunes , Overwhelming Splendor , Curse of Exhaustion , Curse of Death's Hold , Cruel Reality
The kill con is to get Curse of Misfortunes either by Bitterheart Witch dying or by simply casting it. At that point Overwhelming Splendor and Curse of Death's Hold can be searched up to destroy all of an opponent’s creatures. Then Cruel Reality can kill your opponent, as Curse of Exhaustion prevents them from comboing off or doing too much spite damage as they die.
Alone the curses are generally fine. Curse of Exhaustion can slow down a player who is far ahead or can kill a combo deck. Overwhelming Splendor can nueter a creature based player. Curse of Death's Hold can hold down a tokens deck(though they can comeback fairly easily if they run anthems). Cruel Reality works suprisingly well to put a creature light player in The Abyss . It can massively slow down Voltron off course, but it also does a number on big creature decks in general.

## Other Stuff

Utility Lands

Arcane Lighthouse , Bojuka Bog , Eiganjo Castle , Field of Ruin , Kher Keep , Kor Haven , Blast Zone , Reliquary Tower , Scavenger Grounds , Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep , Shizo, Death's Storehouse
Most of these are fairly self explanatory( Kor Haven nullifies attackers, Arcane Lighthouse is a good answer to hexproof generals etc.) I’ll go into those that require a wee bit of explaining though.
Kher Keep can kinda work as a weird Kor Haven , nullifying attacks. It can build up a bigger wall though, so that’s nice.
All three of the Kamigawa legendary lands are massively useful for Queen Marchesa . Eiganjo Castle helps make her much more bulky, meaning that a trade requires a decently sized creature(atleast 5 attack). Works well with her deathtouch. Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep is even better, letting Queen Marchesa instakill anything without first strike via deathtouch. Shizo, Death's Storehouse is also great, making reclaiming the monarchy much easier

Fun Ofs

Gonti, Lord of Luxury , Head Games , Wild Ricochet
Gonti, Lord of Luxury is nice for stealing opponents cards. That simple. Also has a nice rattlesnake body
Head Games is a fun political card, either destroying an opponents hand or fixing it up to get a favor. Can also give an opponent the tool to save the table. Should the former archenemy player still be around after that, they will likely go after the opponent which directly destroyed them over you.
Wild Ricochet Nice at protecting your permenants unlike Radiate . Very fun card.

Deck Smoothers

Faithless Looting , Treasure Map , Land Tax , Nahiri, the Harbinger , Thaumatic Compass
Pretty simple. Filtering is good. Fetching lands so you hit your drops is good
Land Tax gets a little special mention. This deck has 10 basics. Like normal, it’s generally better to search up 3 basics the first couple times to thin your deck since Land Tax means you’ll be hitting your drops. However, with so few basics, searching up 3 then pitching 2/3 of them should only probably be done once or twice, just in case you need to search them up later. Also, if searching up lands to pitch, Plains should generally be pitched over Swamp as you only have 2 of the latter and can run out. Not being able to search up a black source later could be irritating.

# What I’m Looking For I’m generally interested in finding cards that are both somewhat useful and increase player interaction/have very unique effects. It should be noted that I’m not interested in cards that have color shifted effects that can be done by the other colors in the deck.(like Imp's Mischief ) Advice on whether the mana base is balanced enough would also be nice, as would mentions of other utility lands you think could be more useful. It should be mentioned that I’m not willing to build a fetch+shock/duel base.

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Date added	6 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	9 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 27 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.73
Tokens	Assassin 1/1 B w/ Haste, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Kobolds of Kher Keep 0/1 R, Plant 0/2 G, The Monarch, Treasure
Folders	EDH Ideas, cool, EDH, neat, EDH, Decks to Try, Interesting Ideas, Maybe?
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