Not the monarch by tinussaurus

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Garland, Royal Kidnapper is a theft-and-monarch deck. The primary plan is to become the monarch, then use Garland's trigger to steal a creature from each new monarch and keep those stolen creatures permanently by making them the monarch's controller for as long as that player is the monarch. The deck also uses goad effects to push the crown around the table, forcing opponents to attack each other while the stolen creatures grow with +2/+2 and cannot be sacrificed. Secondary paths include reanimation of large threats, theft via spells like Control Magic and Treachery, and value engines that exile and cast opponents' cards. The hidden commander is Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, which blinks stolen creatures to make them yours permanently. The deck is built to use Garland's face, with Thassa as the key enabler.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetherize
• 1 Agent of Treachery
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archnemesis
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Breach the Multiverse
• 1 Bribery
• 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
• 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Come Back Wrong
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conjurer's Closet
• 1 Control Magic
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Court of Locthwain
• 1 Cunning Rhetoric
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dimir Aqueduct
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fishing Gear
• 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
• 1 Ghostly Flicker
• 1 Ghoulish Impetus
• 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1 Gonti, Night Minister
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 8 Island
• 1 Kang Dynasty
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Mind Flayer
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Minion's Return
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mystic Sanctuary
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nephalia Smuggler
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Sepulchral Primordial
• 1 Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Siphon Insight
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1 The Darkness Crystal
• 1 The Master, Mesmerist
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Thieving Amalgam
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Treacherous Urge
• 1 Treachery
• 1 Undercity Sewers
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble