Optimized Gonti by user1227018

Format: Commander

Commander: Gonti, Canny Acquisitor

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Gonti is a Sultai theft-and-rogue engine rather than a combo commander. The deck plans to put unblockable or unblocked creatures into play, trigger Gonti and friends to exile the top card of opponents' libraries, then cast those cards for one less mana while drawing through combat. A compact Thassa's Oracle + Tainted Pact/Demonic Consultation finish serves as the primary way to actually close the game. Secondary routes are Villainous Wealth and opponent-derived spells, while Felix Five-Boots doubles the important combat-damage triggers. The commander's exile-play ability is the payoff; free countermagic and removal keep the engine alive and protect the combo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Felix Five-Boots
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gonti, Canny Acquisitor
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Will
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reconnaissance Mission
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seedborn Muse
  • 1 Siphon Insight
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Villainous Wealth
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zagoth Triome