Garland, Knight of Cornelia // Chaos, the Endless

Gameplan

Cast a steady stream of cheap noncreature spells off your 2-mana Garland to surveil every time, sculpting draws and stocking your graveyard. Use that fueled yard for reanimation, delve, flashback, and graveyard payoffs, then sacrifice or trade away Garland to bring back Chaos, a recursive 6/6 flier that keeps coming back from the bottom of your library when it dies. You grind incremental value and close with burn, big reanimated threats, or a spellslinger combo.

Key Cards

• Underworld Breach — Turns your stocked graveyard into a spell engine, enabling explosive recursion and combo finishes.
• Body Double — Reanimates the best creature surveiled into your yard, leveraging the graveyard Garland fills.
• Reanimate — Cheap reanimation that punishes the self-mill, converting surveil discards into huge threats.
• Birgi, God of Storytelling — Pays you back for the cheap noncreature spells that fuel Garland's surveil, chaining into big turns.
• Bonecrusher Giant — Modal spell-creature that triggers surveil as removal and stays as a reanimation target later.
• Mishra's Bauble — Free spell that triggers surveil and replaces itself, smoothing every turn at no cost.
• Faithless Looting — Cheap dig that bins reanimation fuel while pulling a surveil trigger.

Upgrade Path

Lower the curve with free and one-mana spells (Mishra's Bauble, Lightning Bolt, Gut Shot) to maximize surveil triggers, and add fast mana like Jeska's Will and rituals to power out Chaos or combos early. Lean harder into reanimation targets and enablers (Persist, Animate Dead, Bone Shards) so the self-mill always converts to threats. Top end with Underworld Breach plus a payoff and tutors like Demonic Tutor to assemble a deterministic kill.