Gaslighting Deck by tinussaurus

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Garland, Royal Kidnapper is the engine of a Dimir monarch-theft deck. The primary plan is to make an opponent the monarch, steal that player's most relevant creature via the commander's trigger, then attack with a growing army of creatures you control but don't own, all buffed by +2/+2 and protected from being sacrificed. Secondary paths involve Bribery, Agent of Treachery, and Mind Flayer to steal from the battlefield or library, Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms to recover large boards, and Corrupted Conscience plus a big stolen creature for a poison kill. There is no second commander face; Gonti and Court effects provide a value fallback if the monarchy plan is disrupted.

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 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Blur
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Corrupted Conscience
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echocasting Symposium
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Fealty to the Realm
  • 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 Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Knowledge Pool
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Omen Machine
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 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 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thieving Amalgam
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Treachery
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble