Gates/Deathtouch by user1822610

Format: Commander

Commander: The Serpent Society

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes The Serpent Society to turn cheap deathtouch creatures into an oppressive asymmetric board-control engine. By combining over twenty low-cost deathtouch creatures with sacrifice outlets and combat trades, the deck repeatedly forces every opponent to sacrifice their nontoken creatures. Opponents find targeted removal perilous due to the commander's ward ability, which inflicts five poison counters on the caster. Win conditions are diversified across fast poison kills via Fynn, the Fangbearer, tall unblockable combat damage powered by Basilisk Gate and The Black Gate, and an alternate late-game win condition through Maze's End. With abundant sacrifice-based card draw and steady recursion, the deck maintains continuous card flow while locking down opposing creature strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acidic Slime
  • 1 Ahriman
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Basilisk Gate
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bilious Skulldweller
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Dragon Gate
  • 1 Blood Divination
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Broken Bond
  • 1 Burrog Banemaker
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chord of Calling
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Circuitous Route
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Corpse Blockade
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Decorum Dissertation
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore the Underdark
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frog Butler
  • 1 Fynn, the Fangbearer
  • 1 Gaea's Blessing
  • 1 Gateway Plaza
  • 1 Gilacorn
  • 1 Gnarlwood Dryad
  • 1 Golgari Guildgate
  • 1 Gond Gate
  • 1 Hand of Silumgar
  • 1 Heap Gate
  • 1 Hired Poisoner
  • 1 Hit-Monkey
  • 1 Hullcarver
  • 1 Illegitimate Business
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Lifecrafter's Bestiary
  • 1 Manor Gate
  • 1 Maze's End
  • 1 Merciless Resolve
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Morbid Curiosity
  • 1 Moss Viper
  • 1 Mwonvuli Beast Tracker
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Oakhame Adversary
  • 1 Open the Gates
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Serpent Specialist
  • 1 Shadow, Mysterious Assassin
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirrelanoids
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Tajuru Blightblade
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Serpent Society
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thornweald Archer
  • 1 Thran Portal
  • 1 Thrill-Kill Assassin
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Virulent Emissary
  • 1 Wasteland Viper
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm