Elenda, the Dusk Rose
Elenda, the Dusk Rose Commander Deck
Garland, Royal Kidnapper drives a monarch-manipulation strategy where you repeatedly pass the monarch status to opponents, triggering his ability each time to steal their most powerful creatures and buff them with +2/+2 while preventing their sacrifice. The deck supplements this with a broad theft package — reanimation, enchantment-based mind control, and spells like Bribery and Breach the Multiverse that pull threats directly from opponents' libraries and graveyards — so you're winning through the combined force of your enemies' own best creatures. Card advantage engines that reward controlling permanents you don't own, along with combat-focused theft that exiles cards from opponents' libraries for later use, ensure the deck consistently snowballs as the game progresses.
Decklist
- Ashnod's Altar
- Plaguecrafter
- Phyrexian Altar
- Cabal Coffers
- Dawn of the Dead
- Crypt Ghast
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Ophiomancer
- Smothering Tithe
- Flagstones of Trokair
- Restoration Specialist
- Reanimate
- Martyr's Cause
- Retribution of the Meek
- Liliana, Dreadhorde General
- Hall of Heliod's Generosity
- Kaya's Guile
- Prismatic Vista
- Expedition Map
- Angelic Destiny
- Angelic Renewal
- Mind Stone
- Contamination
- Phyrexian Tower
- Tombstone Stairwell
- Pox
- Animate Dead
- Demonic Tutor
- Woe Strider
- Syphon Mind
- Fallen Ideal
- Murderous Cut
- Skullclamp
- Concealed Courtyard
- Innocent Blood
- Dark Ritual
- Slaughter the Strong
- Vona's Hunger
- Blade of the Bloodchief
- Rogue's Passage
- Teferi's Protection
- High Market
- Gift of Immortality
- Martyr's Bond
- Eldrazi Monument
- Benevolent Bodyguard
- Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
- Demon's Disciple
- Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
- Read the Bones
- Dismember
- Inkshield
- Goldmire Bridge
- Damn
- Orzhov Signet
- Arcane Signet
- Command Tower
- Sol Ring
- The Meathook Massacre
- Orzhov Basilica
- Anguished Unmaking
- City of Brass
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Talisman of Hierarchy
- Swords to Plowshares
- Temple of Silence
- Vindicate
- Vault of Champions
- Charismatic Conqueror
- Warren Soultrader
- Accursed Marauder
- Season of Loss
- Plumb the Forbidden
- Deadly Dispute
- Cosmogrand Zenith
- Continue?
- Endless Foot Assault
- 11× Swamp
- Hidden Stockpile
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Marsh Flats
- Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
- 7× Plains