Gates and Deserts Shenanigans

Commander / EDH

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Land (41)

• 1x Azorius Guildgate
• 1x Boros Guildgate
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert
• 1x Desert of the Fervent
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Endless Sands
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 3x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Grasping Dunes
• 1x Gruul Guildgate
• 3x Island
• 1x Izzet Guildgate
• 1x Lotus Field
• 1x Maze's End *f-pre*
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 4x Plains
• 1x Plaza of Harmony
• 1x Rakdos Guildgate
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 1x Selesnya Guildgate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Sunscorched Desert
• 3x Swamp
• 1x Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Concordant Crossroads
• 1x Mana Reflection
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Prismatic Omen
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sunbird's Invocation

Creature (23)

• 1x Avenger of Zendikar
• 1x Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Courser of Kruphix
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Eldrazi Displacer
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Lotus Cobra
• 1x Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1x Omnath, Locus of Rage
• 1x Omnath, Locus of the Roil
• 1x Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1x Ramunap Excavator
• 1x Riftsweeper
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Spark Double
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Sylvan Safekeeper
• 1x Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1x Titania, Protector of Argoth
• 1x Ulvenwald Hydra
• 1x World Shaper

Artifact (7)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Doubling Cube
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Rings of Brighthearth
• 1x Zuran Orb

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Aminatou, the Fateshifter
• 1x Lord Windgrace
• 1x Wrenn and Six

Commander (1)

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bring to Light
• 1x Circuitous Route
• 1x Conflux
• 1x Hour of Promise
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Splendid Reclamation
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Tooth and Nail

Instant (8)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Constant Mists
• 1x Crop Rotation
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Eerie Interlude *f-pre*
• 1x Emergency Powers
• 1x Ephemerate
• 1x Realms Uncharted

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Five color gates and Deserts landfall deck with some shenanigans. The main win is Maze's End with Valakut and Blood Moon as a backup.

The idea of the deck is, primarily, to win with Maze's End so it has your traditional Scapeshift package with Splendid Reclamation and World Shaper to get your lands out. As a backup for the troll, it also has Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle and Prismatic Omen in case someone blows up your Maze's End to prevent you from winning that way.

Also, I wanted to interact with the exile zone with this deck since I had plenty of space for jank after putting in most of the stuff for my main win and backup win. I have Riftsweeper and Eldrazi Displacer to put exiled cards back into my deck. It is also why I run Kess, Dissident Mage so I can flashback sorceries and instances and then get them back with riftsweeper. Also, it'd be nice to cast a card like Gates Ablaze twice and then put it back into the deck.

I also run a really silly combo with Smothering Tithe , Elite Arcanist , Pemmin's Aura , and Emergency Powers to spit out all CMC 7 or less.

For alternate wins, for when I want to just get the game over with, I run Tooth and Nail , Omnath, Locus of Rage , Omnath, Locus of the Roil , Titania, Protector of Argoth , and Avenger of Zendikar as bombs along with a multitude of flicker spells to get the most value out of them.

All in all, it is a janky gates deck with a desert and exile sub theme that is, in my opinion, bad enough to not win consistently but good enough that when it does win, everyone is flabergasted.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 42 - 0 Rares 10 - 0 Uncommons 16 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.76
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Cat Warrior 2/2 G, Copy Clone, Elemental 5/3 G, Elemental 5/5 RG, Emblem Wrenn and Six, Plant 0/1 G, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B