99 lands but a clown aint one by justapenguin

Format: Commander

Commander: Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a 99-land Gates deck that uses Maze's End as its hidden commander. Kefka, Court Mage provides card draw on entry and attack, and can transform into Kefka, Ruler of Ruin for massive draw when opponents lose life, but the deck rarely enables the back face. The primary win is tutoring Gates with Maze's End and Urza's Cave until you control ten Gates with different names. Secondary wins are Field of the Dead zombie swarms, Dark Depths into Marit Lage via Thespian's Stage or Vesuva, and incremental value from Barad-dur and Mirrex. With no ramp and many tapped lands, the deck plays a slow, land-drop control game and relies on Kefka to find its pieces.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundant Countryside
  • 1 Amonkhet Raceway
  • 1 Ancient Ziggurat
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Base Camp
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cathedral of War
  • 1 Cliffgate
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crosis's Catacombs
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dwarven Ruins
  • 1 Ebon Stronghold
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Eden, Seat of the Sanctum
  • 1 Endless Sands
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forge of Heroes
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Guildmages' Forum
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Homeward Path
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Labyrinth of Skophos
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mirrex
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Muraganda Raceway
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Northampton Farm
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Petrified Field
  • 1 Pillar of the Paruns
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Safe Haven
  • 1 Sanctum of Eternity
  • 1 Sandstone Needle
  • 1 Saprazzan Skerry
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Vent
  • 1 Svyelunite Temple
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tyrite Sanctum
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Untaidake, the Cloud Keeper
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Mine
  • 1 Urza's Power Plant
  • 1 Urza's Tower
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Xander's Lounge