Gonti by JokerRogue

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Saboteur Theft Midrange strategy led by Gonti, Canny Acquisitor. The plan deploys cheap, evasive creatures like Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, and Triton Shorestalker on early turns alongside efficient mana ramp. Casting Gonti on Turn 4 establishes a steady card engine: whenever unblocked creatures deal combat damage to an opponent, you exile the top card of that player's library to cast with any mana color at a one-mana discount. The deck compounds this advantage using Grim Hireling and Prosperous Thief for Treasure acceleration, while standalone card draw engines like Toski, Bearer of Secrets and Edric, Spymaster of Trest keep your hand full. Trigger doublers like Felix Five-Boots accelerate value, and the deck finishes games around Turn 8 through evasive attacks, life loss from Brainstealer Dragon, and big-mana finishers like Torment of Hailfire and Expropriate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Heist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Cold-Eyed Selkie
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Extract Brain
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Felix Five-Boots
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plasm Capture
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sage of the Beyond
  • 1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silent-Blade Oni
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast