New Untitled Deck by McAkimbo

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Midrange control strategy commanded by Garland, Royal Kidnapper, built around weaponizing the monarch mechanic, theft effects, and enter-the-battlefield flicker synergies. The early turns focus on developing mana velocity with efficient rocks like Arcane Signet and establishing card advantage engines such as Black Market Connections and Faerie Mastermind. Deploying Garland on Turn 4 introduces the monarch to the table and immediately steals an opponent's premier creature, buffed by Garland's static ability while preventing sacrifice outs. In the mid-to-late game, the deck compounds board disparity using flicker engines like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Conjurer's Closet alongside devastating theft bombs like Agent of Treachery, Sepulchral Primordial, and Breach the Multiverse. Compact win routes exist via an infinite mana loop with Deadeye Navigator and Peregrine Drake to seize all opposing permanents, or simply overwhelming opponents with unblockable combat damage via Keeper of Keys and Glaring Spotlight.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blatant Thievery
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Blade
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cloud Key
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Desertion
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endless Sands
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glaring Spotlight
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Impostor Syndrome
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Keeper of Keys
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Memory Plunder
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Peregrine Drake
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starscream, Power Hungry // Starscream, Seeker Leader
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Throne of the High City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Windfall