Gonti by Creeptime

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai combat-theft midrange strategy led by Gonti, Canny Acquisitor. It aims to deploy cheap, evasive creatures during the opening turns, ramp into Gonti by Turn 4, and attack opponents immediately. Each unblocked attacker exiles cards from opponents' libraries, which can then be cast at a discount using mana of any color. The deck builds an asymmetric card advantage engine by turning opponents' libraries into an extended hand while triggering saboteur effects from cards like Felix Five-Boots, Brainstealer Dragon, and Tasha, the Witch Queen. The interaction suite leverages efficient Sultai spot removal, board wipes like Culling Ritual, and defensive countermagic to protect critical engines. Lacking fast combo finishes, the deck closes games over multiple combat cycles through accumulated card advantage, life drain from Brainstealer Dragon, and combat damage from stolen opposing threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baleful Strix
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Botanical Sanctum
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Chaos Wand
• 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Culling Ritual
• 1 Cunning Rhetoric
• 1 Curtains' Call
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Diluvian Primordial
• 1 Dismal Backwater
• 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
• 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
• 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1 Enduring Curiosity
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Extract Brain
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Felix Five-Boots
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 4 Forest
• 1 Ghostly Pilferer
• 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
• 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 Intellect Devourer
• 5 Island
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Mind's Dilation
• 1 Misfortune Teller
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Paradox Gardens
• 1 Predators' Hour
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Realm of Koh
• 1 Rogue Class
• 1 Sage of the Beyond
• 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
• 1 Savvy Trader
• 1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
• 1 Silent Hallcreeper
• 1 Silhana Ledgewalker
• 1 Siphon Insight
• 1 Smirking Spelljacker
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
• 1 Stolen Goods
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 The Key to the Vault
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Thieving Varmint
• 1 Thornwood Falls
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Titan's Grave
• 1 Tower Winder
• 1 Trygon Predator
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Viridescent Bog
• 1 Woodland Cemetery