garland by user7599405

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir monarch-theft build helmed by Garland, Royal Kidnapper. The primary game plan revolves around becoming the monarch via the commander or backup enablers (Court of Ambition, Custodi Lich) and then systematically stealing opponents' creatures whenever the monarch changes. The deck leverages a dense suite of repeatable theft effects (Agent of Treachery, Hostage Taker, Mind Flayer), combined with flicker engines (Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Conjurer's Closet) to re-trigger those steals, while generating additional value from cards that play from opponents' libraries (Thief of Sanity, Fallen Shinobi, Brainstealer Dragon). Winning is achieved through overwhelming combat advantage with stolen creatures, supported by mass reanimation spells (Breach the Multiverse, Rise of the Dark Realms) that turn every graveyard into a weapon.

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 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Control Magic
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Ambition
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Court of Vantress
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Custodi Lich
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Domineering Will
  • 1 Dragonlord Silumgar
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 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 Venerations
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightveil Specter
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treacherous Urge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Widow-Making Infiltrator
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin