Gates, Gates, and more Gates by user9196485

Format: Commander

Commander: Child of Alara

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a five-color Gates/"lands matter" deck helmed by Child of Alara, built around a clever one-sided wipe synergy: the commander's death trigger destroys all nonland permanents, while the deck's actual threats are lands (manlands, Zendikons, and animated lands) that survive the blast. The primary win condition is Maze's End, which requires controlling ten Gates with different names - the deck runs nineteen distinct Gates and a dense land-tutoring package to assemble them. Secondary wins come from combat with oversized animated lands like Genju of the Realm, Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi, and Gate Colossus. The deck plays a slow, grindy control-ramp game, using Child of Alara as a repeatable reset button while accumulating Gates and land-based inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Animist's Awakening
• 1 Athreos, Shroud-Veiled
• 1 Auroral Procession
• 1 Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi
• 1 Azorius Guildgate
• 1 Baldur's Gate
• 1 Black Dragon Gate
• 1 Blinkmoth Nexus
• 1 Boros Guildgate
• 1 Broken Bond
• 1 Cactus Preserve
• 1 Case of the Locked Hothouse
• 1 Child of Alara
• 1 Circuitous Route
• 1 Citadel Gate
• 1 Cliffgate
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Zendikon
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crackling Emergence
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Crusher Zendikon
• 1 Den of the Bugbear
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Guildgate
• 1 Druid Class
• 1 Eureka Moment
• 1 Explore
• 1 Faerie Conclave
• 1 Flare of Fortitude
• 1 Forbidding Watchtower
• 1 Gate Colossus
• 1 Gatebreaker Ram
• 1 Genju of the Realm
• 1 Gift of Immortality
• 1 Golgari Guildgate
• 1 Gond Gate
• 1 Growth Spiral
• 1 Gruul Guildgate
• 1 Guardian Zendikon
• 1 Harmonious Emergence
• 1 Heap Gate
• 1 Hissing Quagmire
• 1 Hive of the Eye Tyrant
• 1 Izzet Guildgate
• 1 Jolrael, Voice of Zhalfir
• 1 Leafdrake Roost
• 1 Living Terrain
• 1 Llanowar Scout
• 1 Lumbering Falls
• 1 Manabond
• 1 Manor Gate
• 1 Maze's End
• 1 Mishra's Factory
• 1 Mishra's Foundry
• 1 Mobilized District
• 1 Mutavault
• 1 Navigation Orb
• 1 Needle Spires
• 1 Negate
• 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
• 1 Nissa's Zendikon
• 1 Nylea's Intervention
• 1 Open the Gates
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Orzhov Guildgate
• 1 Raging Ravine
• 1 Rakdos Guildgate
• 1 Rebuild the City
• 1 Restless Anchorage
• 1 Restless Bivouac
• 1 Restless Cottage
• 1 Restless Fortress
• 1 Restless Prairie
• 1 Restless Reef
• 1 Restless Ridgeline
• 1 Restless Spire
• 1 Restless Vents
• 1 Restless Vinestalk
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Sage of the Maze
• 1 Sea Gate
• 1 Selesnya Guildgate
• 1 Shambling Vent
• 1 Simic Guildgate
• 1 Skyshroud Ranger
• 1 Spelunking
• 1 Splendid Reclamation
• 1 Stirring Wildwood
• 1 Thrilling Encore
• 1 Treasured Find
• 1 Treetop Village
• 1 Unwind
• 1 Urban Evolution
• 1 Vastwood Zendikon
• 1 Walking Atlas
• 1 Wandering Fumarole
• 1 Wilderness Reclamation
• 1 Wind Zendikon
• 1 Wrenn and Seven