Thievery and sneak attacks by andisir

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor is a Sultai theft-and-value deck that accelerates into an early evasive board and converts every hit into cards taken from opponents. The primary plan is to land an unblockable one-drop, reach Gonti by turns 3-4 with ramp, then chain combat-damage triggers from Felix Five-Boots, Rogue Class, and ninjutsu to stockpile castable enemy spells. Secondary paths are big X-spells like Villainous Wealth and direct theft such as Bribery and Hostage Taker. Gonti himself is the cost-reducing engine; Gonti, Lord of Luxury in the 99 acts as a hidden second copy of the same effect. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents with their own resources rather than by a compact combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Arcane Heist
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baleful Mastery
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Brainstealer Dragon
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bribery
• 1 Cephalid Facetaker
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Creeping Tar Pit
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Cunning Rhetoric
• 1 Curse of the Swine
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Darksteel Ingot
• 1 Dazzling Sphinx
• 1 Deathcap Glade
• 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
• 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• 1 Elder Brain
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Extinction Event
• 1 Extract Brain
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fallen Shinobi
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Felix Five-Boots
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 2 Forest
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
• 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Gudul Lurker
• 1 Heartless Conscription
• 1 Hedge Maze
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 5 Island
• 1 Kodama's Reach
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Memory Lapse
• 1 Mind's Dilation
• 1 Mindleech Mass
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1 Ohran Frostfang
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Orochi Soul-Reaver
• 1 Outrageous Robbery
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Pick Your Poison
• 1 Predators' Hour
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rogue Class
• 1 Sage of the Beyond
• 1 Savvy Trader
• 1 Silent-Blade Oni
• 1 Silhana Ledgewalker
• 1 Siphon Insight
• 1 Slip Through Space
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Smirking Spelljacker
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Suspicious Stowaway // Seafaring Werewolf
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Temple of Mystery
• 1 Thief of Sanity
• 1 Thieving Varmint
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Trygon Predator
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Villainous Wealth
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zagoth Triome