Nine-Fingers Keene: Gates Control by RottingHellkite

Format: Commander

Commander: Nine-Fingers Keene

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a dedicated Gates toolbox deck helmed by Nine-Fingers Keene, built to assemble ten differently named Gates and close through Maze's End. Keene is a 4-mana menace attacker with a punishing ward cost whose combat-damage trigger digs nine cards deep, puts a Gate directly onto the battlefield, and-once you control nine or more Gates-refills your entire hand. The 99 supports her with dense Gate-fetching ramp (Circuitous Route, Explore the Underdark, Hour of Promise), tapped-land enablers (Amulet of Vigor, Gond Gate, Spelunking), and extra land-drop engines (Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, Burgeoning). A compact Equipment package (Trailblazer's Boots, Whispersilk Cloak, Brotherhood Regalia) ensures Keene connects, while Felix Five-Boots doubles her trigger. Secondary paths include overloaded Cyclonic Rift into a crushing attack, a huge Villainous Wealth, and land-based beaters like Cultivator Colossus and Sage of the Maze.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brotherhood Regalia
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Copy Land
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Begets Life
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Felix Five-Boots
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Mask of Riddles
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage of the Maze
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Silver Shroud Costume
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Song of the Dryads
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Windgrace's Judgment
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy