Your Highness

Your Highness is a Mardu political / pillow-fort Commander deck built around Queen Marchesa and the monarch mechanic. Its core plan is to become the monarch, then make attacking you awkward or costly with cards like Ghostly-prison-style effects such as Norn’s Annex, Crawlspace, Sphere of Safety, No Mercy, Revenge of Ravens, and Archon of Coronation.

The deck wins by grinding value over time through monarch and court cards like Court of Grace, Court of Ambition, Court of Ardenvale, Court of Locthwain, Palace Jailer, and Thorn of the Black Rose, while drawing cards and ramping with Necropotence, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, Smothering Tithe, and mana rocks. It also uses goad/attack manipulation tools like Martial Impetus, Parasitic Impetus, Bloodthirsty Blade, and Breena, the Demagogue to push opponents into attacking each other instead of you. Overall, it’s a control-oriented attrition deck that wins by maintaining the