This deck is a Sultai theft-by-combat deck. It floods the board with unblockable, evasive and hexproof creatures that connect every turn, and each hit exiles cards from opponents' libraries to cast with any mana. Gonti, Canny Acquisitor is the engine: its trigger fires once per combat-damage step no matter how many creatures connect, and it makes stolen spells cost {1} less. Other combat-damage triggers stack on top of it, such as card draw, extra exile effects and Felix Five-Boots doubling them, so a swarm of tiny unblockables turns into a stream of cards and opponents' best spells. How it wins: It chips in with unblockable creatures while casting opponents' own threats and spells against them, and finishes with a massive steal like Villainous Wealth or Kotis free-casting, or with a team pumped by Beastmaster Ascension and Cazur counters. Key roles: - Unblockable connectors: Cheap creatures that can't be blocked, or are nearly impossible to block, guarantee combat damage each turn so Gonti, Canny Acquisitor and every hit-trigger reliably fire. (Slither Blade, Invisible Stalker, Changeling Outcast) - Combat-damage theft: Extra creatures, equipment and enchantments that also exile or cast cards from opponents' libraries on a hit, multiplying what each attack steals. (Gonti, Night Minister, Thief of Sanity, Dream-Thief's Bandana) - Hit-trigger card advantage and doubling: Draw-on-damage pieces turn every connecting creature into a card, and Felix Five-Boots makes each of these combat-damage triggers happen twice. (Felix Five-Boots, Edric, Spymaster of Trest, Reconnaissance Mission) - Direct stealing and cost reduction: Non-combat theft effects take opponents' cards or permanents outright, and cost reducers and special mana make the stolen spells cheap to cast. (Villainous Wealth, Hostage Taker, Thieving Varmint) - Library manipulation tricks: Effects that put permanents or graveyard cards on top of an opponent's library make sure the next combat-damage exile hits something valuable. (Temporal Spring, Misinformation, Scheming Symmetry) - Swarm finishers: Pump and growth effects turn the wide team of small evasive attackers into a lethal force. (Beastmaster Ascension, Caz

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