Garland, Royal Kidnapper by Person27

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

Garland, Royal Kidnapper commands a Dimir control deck that weaponizes opponents' creatures and combat steps. The core game plan revolves around introducing the Monarch mechanic, stealing the Monarch's most impactful creatures with Garland, and granting those stolen creatures +2/+2 and sacrifice immunity. Dense goad effects like Ghoulish Impetus, Bloodthirsty Blade, and Coercive Impetus force opponents to attack one another, whittling down their life totals while shielding your own. Meanwhile, repeatable blink engines like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Conjurer's Closet repeatedly re-trigger Garland's entry ability, granting the Monarch to different players and confiscating their best permanents every turn cycle. High-cost finishers such as Breach the Multiverse, Brainstealer Dragon, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater provide massive late-game card advantage and board presence. Interaction is backed by premier counterspells like Fierce Guardianship and Mana Drain, ensuring the deck can protect its stolen army and close games through insurmountable combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aberrant Return
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Coercive Impetus
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dream Harvest
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eye of Nidhogg
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gilded Drake
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kang Dynasty
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Oft-Nabbed Goat
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Psychic Impetus
  • 1 Renegade Silent
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Shield Broker
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sly Instigator
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Cyber-Controller
  • 1 The Master, Mesmerist
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Treacherous Urge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vedalken Shackles
  • 1 Vislor Turlough
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival