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Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Night Minister

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black combat theft and aristocrat strategy commanded by Gonti, Night Minister. The early game focuses on deploying cheap, evasive creatures such as Changeling Outcast, Tormented Soul, and Dauthi Voidwalker. Once Gonti enters the battlefield on Turn 4, every unblocked creature exiles cards from opponents' libraries for ongoing card advantage. Casting these stolen cards generates Treasure tokens through Gonti's ability, creating a powerful mana and tempo loop. The deck converts this resource advantage into victory through incremental burn and token drain engines like Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Disciple of the Vault, supported by explosive mid-to-late game threats such as Grim Hireling, Brainstealer Dragon, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. While the deck lacks instant-win combos or fast cEDH mana, its high density of evasive threats and constant stream of stolen opposing resources allow it to outvalue and outlast standard multiplayer pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Assault Suit
  • 1 Awaken the Erstwhile
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blast Zone
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Contested War Zone
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Curse of Disturbance
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dauthi Embrace
  • 1 Dauthi Slayer
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghoulish Impetus
  • 1 Gifted Aetherborn
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gray Slaad // Entropic Decay
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hissing Miasma
  • 1 Howling Mine
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Genesis
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kuroki, Thief of Talents
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marchesa's Decree
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Parasitic Impetus
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Seizan, Perverter of Truth
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple Bell
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Tormented Soul
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vault Skirge
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment