Garland - Monarch by Lestroc

Format: Commander

Commander: Garland, Royal Kidnapper

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir control strategy led by Garland, Royal Kidnapper. It focuses on stealing opposing creatures, manipulating the monarch mechanic, and reanimating high-value threats from all graveyards. Garland introduces the monarch to an opponent on entry, immediately taking control of their best creature while buffing all stolen creatures by +2/+2 and making them immune to sacrifice. The deck compounds this advantage using repeatable blink engines like Thassa, Deep-Dwelling and Conjurer's Closet to steal additional creatures each turn or make stolen permanents permanent. Complementing the commander are powerful asymmetric theft cards such as Sepulchral Primordial, Gisa, Glorious Resurrector, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater. The deck controls the board with flexible black removal and blue countermagic, transitioning into a commanding board state around Turn 6 and closing the game via combat damage by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acquire
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Bilbo's Burglaring
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Changing Loyalty
  • 1 Chaos Shrine's Black Crystal
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Command the Dreadhorde
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curse of Unbinding
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Death in Heaven
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fealty to the Realm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Garland, Royal Kidnapper
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gyruda, Doom of Depths
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Invoke the Winds
  • 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Memnarch
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Flayer
  • 1 Mind's Dilation
  • 1 Misleading Signpost
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nephalia Smuggler
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 One with the Multiverse
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Rain of Daggers
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reenact the Crime
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shadow of the Enemy
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Tempted by the Oriq
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Volatile Stormdrake
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Pact