Steal by aethercladd

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor leads a Sultai theft deck built around combat-damage exiling and casting opponents' cards at a discount. The commander is both a value engine and the deck's primary accelerant: every successful hit with evasive rogues exiles a card, and the {1} cost reduction makes those stolen spells consistently playable. There is no hidden commander; the deck is not configured around Tasha, the Witch Queen in the command zone. Secondary paths are Aetherflux Reservoir plus Bolas's Citadel as a self-contained life-total finish, and Villainous Wealth or Eternal Dominion as large endgames. The plan remains workable without Gonti because a dozen other exile-and-cast permanents, such as Thief of Sanity, Nightveil Specter, and Brainstealer Dragon, carry the strategy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Arcane Heist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brainstealer Dragon
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bribery
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Court of Locthwain
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Cunning Rhetoric
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dream-Thief's Bandana
  • 1 Enduring Curiosity
  • 1 Eternal Dominion
  • 1 Fallen Shinobi
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feed the Clan
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Intellect Devourer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kotis, the Fangkeeper
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mishra's Bauble
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nightveil Specter
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Portent
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Predators' Hour
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rogue Class
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Simic Signet
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Stolen Goods
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Xanathar, Guild Kingpin
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth