Yoink by Jawdy

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir theft and monarch midrange strategy commanded by Garland, Royal Kidnapper. The primary game plan accelerates into an early Garland, intentionally handing the monarch to an opponent to immediately steal their best creature with a +2/+2 stat buff. From there, the deck leverages combat damage, clone effects, and reanimation to steal opposing threats while drawing cards from the monarch and combat engines. It transitions into the late game by deploying heavy theft payoffs like Sepulchral Primordial and Dragonlord Silumgar, or by assembling an alternate infinite life-drain loop with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Enduring Tenacity. While resilient in creature-heavy pods and rich in incremental card advantage, the deck relies heavily on natural draws due to an absence of tutors and remains exposed to sweepers and artifact-based combo engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abduction
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blade of Selves
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bottomless Vault
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Cackling Counterpart
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
  • 1 Dreaded Bat-Cloud
  • 1 Dreadship Reef
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Helm of the Host
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 15 Island
  • 1 Kheru Spellsnatcher
  • 1 Lazav, Wearer of Faces
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Long River's Pull
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murky Sewer
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Plague Myr
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prosperity
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Ray of Command
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Relm's Sketching
  • 1 Remove Soul
  • 1 Rescue
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shield Broker
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Synod Sanctum
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble