Gate Deck V2 by nipie40

Format: Commander

Commander: Nine-Fingers Keene

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Gates-matters landfall deck helmed by Nine-Fingers Keene. The primary plan is to ramp aggressively, deploy Keene, make her unblockable, and use her combat-damage trigger to tutor Gates directly onto the battlefield. Once you control nine or more Gates, that same trigger becomes a massive card-drawing engine-putting the rest of the top nine into your hand. The deck then pivots to one of two win conditions: a combat step with huge landfall-generated tokens or an overrun effect (Overwhelming Stampede, Return of the Wildspeaker), or the alternate win condition via Maze's End. The strategy is heavily reliant on land-tutor redundancy, landfall payoffs, and building toward critical mass while staying under the radar as a slow but inevitability-driven value pile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cancel
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 District Guide
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exclude
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gate Colossus
  • 1 Gatebreaker Ram
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Gatekeeper Gargoyle
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Gateway Shade
  • 1 Gateway Sneak
  • 1 Gaze of Granite
  • 1 Glaive of the Guildpact
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Greenside Watcher
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Omo, Queen of Vesuva
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Prowler's Helm
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rewind
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage of the Maze
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Simic Growth Chamber
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tatyova, Steward of Tides
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Way of the Thief
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast