A Sultai theft deck that floods the board with unblockable and evasive creatures and turns every combat hit into stolen cards. Gonti, Canny Acquisitor exiles the top card of each damaged opponent's library to play with any mana, and makes spells the player doesn't own cost less. Combat-damage trigger doublers and stacked hit-payoffs turn each connection into a pile of card advantage. That stream of stolen spells is then cast cheaply, fed by cost reducers and theft-only mana. How it wins: Many small unblockable attackers chip away while the stolen cards and big pump effects build an overwhelming board, closing with mass evasive damage or a large Villainous Wealth turn. Key roles: - Evasive connectors: cheap creatures that can't be blocked, have flying or fear, or are hexproof. Their job is to reliably deal combat damage and fire Gonti's trigger and every other hit payoff. Some draw or copy on their own when they connect. (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Mercurial Spelldancer) - Hit-to-steal engines: extra permanents and effects that exile and grant play of opponents' cards on combat damage, multiplying the theft beyond Gonti. (Gonti, Night Minister, Dream-Thief's Bandana, Rogue Class) - Trigger amplification: doubles every combat-damage trigger the deck controls, and adds card draw for each connecting creature. This turns a wide unblockable attack into a huge refill. (Felix Five-Boots, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Reconnaissance Mission) - Direct theft and big steals: enter-the-battlefield and spell-based effects that grab opponents' cards or creatures without needing combat. These range up to mass free casting and stealing every creature on the board. (Villainous Wealth, Hostage Taker, Kotis, the Fangkeeper) - Casting stolen cards: discounts for spells cast from exile or that the player doesn't own, plus mana that can only be spent on stolen spells. Treasure from casting them keeps the theft chain flowing alongside Gonti's own reduction. (Thieving Varmint, Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius, Savvy Trader) - Library manipulation: puts known cards or creatures back on top of opponents' libraries, or stacks them, so the next steal hits something chosen. It doubles as tempo removal. (Scheming Symmetry, Misinformation, Temporal Spring)

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
• Creeping Tar Pit
• Cruelclaw's Heist
• Cultivate
• Curiosity
• 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
• Exotic Orchard
• Extraordinary Journey
• Farseek
• Felix Five-Boots
• Filth
• 4× Forest
• Gonti, Lord of Luxury
• Gonti, Night Minister
• Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• Growth Spiral
• Heartless Conscription
• Hinterland Harbor
• Hostage Taker
• Invisible Stalker
• 6× Island
• Kotis, the Fangkeeper
• Llanowar Wastes
• Memory Lapse
• Mercurial Spelldancer
• Misinformation
• Mist-Cloaked Herald
• Nightveil Specter
• One with Nature
• Opal Palace
• Opulent Palace
• Outrageous Robbery
• Overflowing Basin
• Phantasmal Image
• Ponder
• Praetor's Grasp
• Predators' Hour
• Rampant Growth
• Reconnaissance Mission
• Rogue Class
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Savvy Trader
• Scheming Symmetry
• Shadowmage Infiltrator
• Shoreline Looter
• Silent Hallcreeper
• Silhana Ledgewalker
• Simic Signet
• Siphon Insight
• Siren Stormtamer
• Slither Blade
• Sol Ring
• Sunken Hollow
• Suspicious Stowaway
• 6× Swamp
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Tear Asunder
• Temporal Spring
• Thief of Sanity
• Thieving Skydiver
• Thieving Varmint
• Tormented Soul
• Triton Shorestalker
• Underground River
• Villainous Wealth
• Viridescent Bog
• Whisk Away
• Woodland Cemetery
• Yavimaya Coast