This is a Sultai "thief" deck built around Gonti, Canny Acquisitor. It sends small evasive creatures at opponents, and every point of combat damage turns into exiled cards from their libraries that it can cast with mana of any type, at a discount for spells it doesn't own. The engine is a stack of combat-damage triggers (Gonti's own, plus copies of the effect, plus draw enchantments), and Felix Five-Boots doubles each of them. Library manipulation also lets it stack opponents' decks, so the best cards get stolen. How it wins: It chips in with unblockable and flying creatures while burying opponents in card advantage from their own decks, then closes with large stolen threats, a pumped team, or free-cast payoffs like Villainous Wealth and Kotis. Key roles: - Evasive connectors: Cheap unblockable, flying or hexproof creatures reliably deal combat damage, which turns on Gonti's trigger and every other "deals combat damage to a player" payoff. (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Changeling Outcast) - Duplicate theft engines: More permanents and spells copy Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's exile-and-play effect, so each hit or cast steals more cards. Some add discounts or Treasure for casting spells it doesn't own. (Gonti, Night Minister, Rogue Class, Dream-Thief's Bandana) - Trigger multiplication and draw: Felix Five-Boots makes every combat-damage trigger happen twice. Enchantments and creatures that draw on combat damage turn a wide evasive board into a card flood. (Felix Five-Boots, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Reconnaissance Mission) - Top-deck manipulation: Effects that put permanents, spells or tutored cards on top of an opponent's library set up what the next theft trigger will grab. This doubles as tempo removal. (Scheming Symmetry, Temporal Spring, Misinformation) - Mass theft payoffs: Big X spells and free-cast effects exile chunks of an opponent's library or board and cast them, often for no mana. Cost reducers for spells cast from exile make the stolen cards cheaper. (Villainous Wealth, Kotis, the Fangkeeper, Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius) - Team pump finishers: Effects that grow a board of small evasive bodies turn chip damage into lethal. (Beastmaster Ascension, March of the World Ooze, Thrummingbird)

Gonti Post research decklist

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