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.

Elenda, the Dusk Rose 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