Small Folk by eldiomni

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai tempo and theft list designed around Gonti, Canny Acquisitor. It opens with low-mana evasive creatures that attack through opposing defenses starting on turn two. Once Gonti enters on turn four, every unblocked creature that hits an opponent exiles cards from that opponent's library, providing continuous card advantage and discounted foreign spells. The deck supplements theft with strong combat triggers like Grim Hireling and Edric, Spymaster of Trest. While it can convert stolen bombs into unexpected wins, its primary internal win condition relies on unblockable damage scaling through Biomass Mutation, Inkfathom Witch, and Notorious Throng. Its interaction suite is flexible and interactive, carrying premium removal like Assassin's Trophy and Cyclonic Rift alongside flash stax pieces like Opposition Agent to slow down faster opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Biomass Mutation
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cephalid Facetaker
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Dimir Infiltrator
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
  • 1 Druids' Repository
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Faerie Artisans
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felix Five-Boots
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Inkfathom Witch
  • 1 Irma, Part-Time Mutant
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March of Swirling Mist
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Polymorphist's Jest
  • 1 Predators' Hour
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Repudiate // Replicate
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Shadowmage Infiltrator
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Skyserpent Seeker
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Suspicious Stowaway // Seafaring Werewolf
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Destined Thief
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Tower Winder
  • 1 Umezawa's Jitte
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unsubstantiate
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome