Maze Runner by Houzza

Format: Commander

Commander: Archelos, Lagoon Mystic

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

A Sultai Gates deck that leans on Archelos to make every land drop count: with the turtle untapped, gates enter ready, and later land-dump spells lose their tapped penalty. The main winning line is Maze's End with nine other different-named Gates on the battlefield, because then you can activate it, lose the Maze itself, and win by the ten gates remaining. Ramps heavily with higher-investment sorceries (Reshape the Earth, Open the Way, Crop Rotation). A secondary combat plan attacks with Gate Graveyards and Nine-Fingers Keene's bonus draws.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Cartographer's Survey
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Colossal Skyturtle
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 District Guide
  • 1 Elvish Rejuvenator
  • 1 Eureka Moment
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Find // Finality
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Freed from the Real
  • 1 Gate Colossus
  • 1 Gatebreaker Ram
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Gatekeeper Gargoyle
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Gateway Sneak
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Greenside Watcher
  • 1 Gretchen Titchwillow
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 River's Rebuke
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Scout
  • 1 Scaled Herbalist
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scaretiller
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Skyshroud Ranger
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tamiyo's Safekeeping
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 World Map
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy