I am glad that yours came with the Marc Jean. Many members have had good experiences with those. Mine came in with a more than serviceable metal ligature with a nice cap. However I have a Saxxas HR ligature that works and was the one I was using. Nonetheless I also bought an Absolute Alto which is a better fit as the Saxxas needed to be tightened all the way through and would not work whenever I used synthetic reeds.