Gonti, Canny Acquisitor leads a swarm of cheap evasive creatures that connect every turn. Each combat-damage trigger steals cards off the top of opponents' libraries. Those stolen spells then cost less thanks to Gonti's discount and the extra cost reducers, and any type of mana can pay for them. The deck stacks more combat-damage payoffs on top (theft, card draw, counters), and Felix Five-Boots doubles all of them. Top-of-library manipulation lets it pick the cards it is about to steal. How it wins: It chips opponents down with many unblockable attackers, then wins with whatever strongest threats and bombs it has stolen along the way, sometimes finishing with a huge Villainous Wealth or a Beastmaster Ascension-pumped alpha strike. Key roles: - Unblockable carriers: Cheap creatures that can't be blocked, have shadow or have fear make sure combat damage lands every turn, so every damage trigger fires reliably, Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's included (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Dauthi Horror). - Combat-damage theft engines: Extra permanents and creatures copy Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's effect, exiling opponents' cards on each hit so they can be cast with any mana. Felix Five-Boots makes each of these triggers fire twice (Gonti, Night Minister, Rogue Class, Thief of Sanity). - Combat-damage card draw: Each connecting creature also draws cards, which keeps the swarm refilled and multiplies with the number of attackers (Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Reconnaissance Mission, Bident of Thassa). - Direct theft and steal-spell discounts: Spells and enter-the-battlefield effects take cards from hands, libraries, graveyards or the battlefield without needing combat. Cost reducers and the Treasure from Gonti, Night Minister make casting the stolen cards cheap (Villainous Wealth, Hostage Taker, Thieving Varmint). - Library-top setup: Bounce-to-top effects, counterspells that put the spell back on the library, and graveyard-to-top effects stack an opponent's library so the next theft trigger hits a known good card, while also handling threats (Time Ebb, Memory Lapse, Misinformation). - Mass-pump finish: Many small attackers fill up a quest counter or exploit a board wipe that lets the deck replay everything it exiled, turning a wide board into lethal (Beastmaster Ascension, Heartless Conscription, Predators' Hour).

Gonti, Canny Acquisitor decklist

• Access Tunnel
• Anchor to the Aether
• Arcane Heist
• Arcane Signet
• Beastmaster Ascension
• Bident of Thassa
• Black Cat, Cunning Thief
• Cazur, Ruthless Stalker
• Changeling Outcast
• Command Tower
• Covetous Urge
• Creeping Tar Pit
• Cruelclaw's Heist
• Cultivate
• Darkwater Catacombs
• Dimir Infiltrator
• Dimir Signet
• Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
• Dream-Thief's Bandana
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Drown in the Loch
• Drowned Catacomb
• Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• Enter the Enigma
• Exotic Orchard
• Extraordinary Journey
• Farseek
• Feed the Swarm
• Felix Five-Boots
• 4× Forest
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• Gonti, Night Minister
• Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• Growth Spiral
• Heartless Conscription
• Hinterland Harbor
• Hostage Taker
• Invisible Stalker
• 5× Island
• Kotis, the Fangkeeper
• Llanowar Wastes
• Memory Lapse
• Misinformation
• Mist-Cloaked Herald
• Nightveil Specter
• One with Nature
• Opal Palace
• Opulent Palace
• Outrageous Robbery
• Overflowing Basin
• Phantasmal Image
• Predators' Hour
• Rampant Growth
• Reconnaissance Mission
• Rogue Class
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Savvy Trader
• Shadowmage Infiltrator
• Shoreline Looter
• Silent Hallcreeper
• Silhana Ledgewalker
• Simic Signet
• Siphon Insight
• Siren Stormtamer
• Slither Blade
• Sol Ring
• Sunken Hollow
• 5× Swamp
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Tear Asunder
• Temporal Spring
• Thief of Sanity
• Thieving Skydiver
• Thieving Varmint
• Time Ebb
• Tormented Soul
• Triton Shorestalker
• Underground River
• Villainous Wealth
• Viridescent Bog
• Whisk Away
• Woodland Cemetery
• Wretched Confluence
• Yavimaya Coast
• Mercurial Spelldancer
• Looter il-Kor
• Scheming Symmetry
• Praetor's Grasp