Crownsnatch by Elown

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Garland, Royal Kidnapper is a monarch-theft commander built around turning the crown into a weapon. The primary plan is to become monarch, deliberately lose it to opponents to trigger Garland's steal, then reclaim it for draw while stolen creatures attack with +2/+2. The secondary plan layers permanent theft (Agent of Treachery, Hostage Taker, Control Magic), clones, and blink effects on combat-draw engines (Bident of Thassa, Coastal Piracy, Court of Vantress) to grind out cards and an evasive board. There is no hidden commander and no two-card combo. The deck wins incrementally through combat, with Vorpal Sword as the only burst finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Channeler
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archivist of Gondor
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clever Impersonator
  • 1 Coastal Piracy
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fealty to the Realm
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flesh Duplicate
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 12 Island
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mulldrifter
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Overlord of the Floodpits
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Ravenloft Adventurer
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Salt Marsh
  • 1 Sarevok's Tome
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Tomb of Horrors Adventurer
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorpal Sword
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble