Fostering the Future by Dendrex

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control strategy helmed by Garland, Royal Kidnapper. It leverages the monarch mechanic, goad, and blink engines to steal opposing creatures, buff them with +2/+2, and prevent opponents from sacrificing them. Early turns focus on setting up mana rocks and pillowfort enchantments like Propaganda and Web of Inertia. Once Garland enters, he grants an opponent the monarch and seizes their most dangerous creature. Pairing Garland with repeatable exile-and-return effects like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling or Conjurer's Closet makes temporary theft permanent while repeatedly stealing new threats every turn cycle. Goad pieces like Jon Irenicus, Shattered One and Maeve, Insidious Singer force opponents to deplete each other's life totals, allowing the deck to close games rapidly through combat with stolen, high-power threats. The deck maintains control using flexible counterspells, spot exile removal, and anti-hexproof tech like Shadowspear and Nowhere to Run.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 As Foretold
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Shadows
  • 1 Collective Restraint
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Crown of Doom
  • 1 Daring Thief
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dust Bowl
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Herald of Leshrac
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jon Irenicus, Shattered One
  • 1 Kitsune, Dragon's Daughter
  • 1 Koskun Falls
  • 1 Maeve, Insidious Singer
  • 1 Meneldor, Swift Savior
  • 1 Midnight Clock
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Oft-Nabbed Goat
  • 1 Planar Incision
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Puca's Mischief
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shifting Grift
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spaceshift
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Sudden Substitution
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talion, the Kindly Lord
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Telepathy
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Master, Mesmerist
  • 1 The Trickster-God's Heist
  • 1 The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Web of Inertia
  • 1 Weeping Angel