Gates' End by nonimo

Format: Commander

Commander: Nine-Fingers Keene

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Sultai Gates/combo deck built around Nine-Fingers Keene and the Maze's End alternate win. The primary plan is to ramp hard, find Reshape the Earth or Scapeshift, and put ten different Gates into play so Maze's End can win immediately. Keene's combat trigger finds missing Gates and, once nine Gates are in play, turns a hit into a big hand refill. Secondary paths are commander damage via Basilisk Gate plus extra turns, and landfall/recursion engines like Scute Swarm, Lumra, and Muldrotha. The deck leans on tutors and recursion to make the Gate combo reliable; Adric is a support piece that can copy Keene's trigger, not a hidden commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Adric, Mathematical Genius
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Capture of Jingzhou
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Emergent Ultimatum
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gatecreeper Vine
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Nissa, Vital Force
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Planar Genesis
  • 1 Planar Nexus
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Rampant Frogantua
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reshape the Earth
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Time Warp
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Zagoth Triome