gate by Eracelyan

Format: Commander

Commander: Nine-Fingers Keene

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Nine-Fingers Keene deck is a dedicated Sultai Gates and lands-matter engine that converts high land counts into overwhelming board presence and alternate win conditions. The strategy accelerates through early turns using efficient two-mana ramp, setting up Nine-Fingers Keene on turn 3. Keene's combat trigger sifts through nine cards each attack to cheat Gates into play, rapidly expanding mana velocity while assembling Gate synergies. Untap enablers like Gond Gate, Spelunking, and Amulet of Vigor negate the natural tempo drawback of tapped Gates. Once the land threshold is met, the deck pivots into game-ending threats: resolving Scapeshift to flood the board with Field of the Dead Zombie tokens, creating a 20/20 indestructible Marit Lage with Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage, or activating Maze's End with ten uniquely named Gates. Robust land recursion ensures resilience against removal, while defensive lands like Glacial Chasm and Constant Mists secure the life total until victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Coiling Oracle
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Copy Land
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Hour of Promise
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lessons from Life
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
  • 1 Open the Way
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Plaza of Harmony
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sage of the Maze
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Skyserpent Seeker
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Ulvenwald Hydra
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome