This deck swarms the board with cheap unblockable and evasive creatures so that combat damage to opponents keeps triggering theft and card-draw effects. Gonti, Canny Acquisitor exiles the top card of a damaged player's library once per combat-damage event (not per creature), lets any mana cast it, and discounts every stolen spell by one. A wide layer of per-hit payoffs stacks on top: extra theft engines, draw-on-damage enchantments, and Felix Five-Boots doubling every such trigger. The stolen cards then fuel the deck by playing opponents' own threats, removal and ramp against them. How it wins: Repeated unblockable chip damage, boosted by counters, pump and copied threats, combined with casting opponents' best cards and swinging tempo with free-cast blowouts like Villainous Wealth or Kotis, eventually overwhelms the table. Key roles: - Unblockable attackers: one- and two-drop creatures that can't be blocked, plus menace, fear, flying and landwalk enablers, guarantee that the combat-damage triggers land every turn (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Filth) - Combat-damage theft engines: additional permanents and effects that exile and let the deck play cards from damaged opponents' libraries, stacking with Gonti, Canny Acquisitor's own steal (Gonti, Night Minister, Thief of Sanity, Rogue Class) - Hit-to-draw and trigger doubling: enchantments and creatures that turn each connected attack into cards or lands, with one card making every such trigger fire an additional time (Felix Five-Boots, Bident of Thassa, Edric, Spymaster of Trest) - Theft spells and ETB stealing: spells and creatures that take cards straight from opponents' libraries, hands, battlefields or graveyards, all discounted by Gonti, Canny Acquisitor and supported by cost reducers and restricted mana (Hostage Taker, Villainous Wealth, Praetor's Grasp) - Free-cast payoffs: creatures and spells that cast exiled or graveyard spells for free off damage, generating huge swings from a single hit (Kotis, the Fangkeeper, Gríma, Saruman's Footman, Arcane Heist) - Library manipulation and tempo: effects that stack opponents' library tops or bounce threats to the top of their library, setting up known steals while disrupting them (Misinformation, Scheming Symmetry, 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