Gates by bladeruner3

Format: Commander

Commander: The Wandering Minstrel

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

The Wandering Minstrel is a five-color Gates deck built to win with Maze's End. The commander's first ability makes every land enter untapped, which turns tapped Guildgates and mass land-tutor spells into explosive ramp; its Town-based token and overrun abilities are dead because the deck contains no Towns. Primary plan: assemble ten differently named Gates and activate Maze's End. Secondary paths: Crackling Perimeter draining with tapped Gates, and Gate-scaled beaters (Gate Colossus, Gatebreaker Ram, Gatekeeper Gargoyle) backed by Hold the Gates. Nine-Fingers Keene acts as a hidden commander-style payoff, dumping Gates into play on combat damage. The commander is not double-faced; it is used purely as an untap engine.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Angel's Grace
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archelos, Lagoon Mystic
  • 1 Azorius Guildgate
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boros Guildgate
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bringer of the Black Dawn
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Clifftop Lookout
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Courser of Kruphix
  • 1 Crackling Perimeter
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivator Colossus
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 District Guide
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elemental Teachings
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Gate Colossus
  • 1 Gatebreaker Ram
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Gatekeeper Gargoyle
  • 1 Gates Ablaze
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Greenside Watcher
  • 1 Gruul Guildgate
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Hei Bai, Forest Guardian
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hold the Gates
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kura, the Boundless Sky
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Moment's Peace
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Paradise Druid
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Realm Seekers
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Reap and Sow
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Sage of the Maze
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Selesnya Guildgate
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sphinx's Revelation
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Wandering Minstrel
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Tolaria West
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Weathered Wayfarer
  • 1 Wooded Bastion
  • 1 Worldly Tutor