you have no power over me! by jbmtg23

Format: Commander

Commander: Nine-Fingers Keene

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is a dedicated Gate ramp and land-control strategy led by Nine-Fingers Keene. The main plan is to accelerate mana in the opening turns, cast the commander on Turn 3, and attack on Turn 4 to dig nine cards deep for Gates. By assembling 10 uniquely named Gates out of the 11 in the deck, it achieves an alternate win condition through Maze's End. Gond Gate fixes tempo by making Gates enter untapped, while Baldur's Gate generates massive mana for spells like Villainous Wealth and Breach the Multiverse. The deck protects its commander and lands with Ward, Heroic Intervention, Veil of Summer, and seven low-cost counterspells. While it lacks mass board wipes and fast positive mana rocks, its high density of land tutors and resilient land-based win condition make it difficult for standard removal packages to disrupt.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flow State
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Grip of Amnesia
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Guild Summit
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Memory Lapse
  • 1 Mnemonic Betrayal
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Navigation Orb
  • 1 Nine-Fingers Keene
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Oubliette
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rites of Refusal
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakashima the Impostor
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Scryb Ranger
  • 1 Sea Gate
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Simic Guildgate
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Way of the Thief
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast