Gonti, Lord of Mono-black Luxury

Commander / EDH Casual Mono-Black Reanimator Suicide Black

zap1000x

Creature (20)

• 1x Bloodghast
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Hell's Caretaker
• 1x Merciless Executioner
• 1x Nether Traitor
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Phyrexian Delver
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Ravenous Chupacabra
• 1x Reassembling Skeleton
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Soldevi Adnate
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thief of Blood
• 1x Vampire Hexmage
• 1x Walking Ballista

Instant (8)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Misinformation
• 1x Rescue from the Underworld
• 1x Sacrifice
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Undying Evil

Sorcery (17)

• 1x Aether Snap
• 1x Bubbling Muck
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Footsteps of the Goryo
• 1x Morbid Curiosity
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Praetor's Grasp
• 1x Profane Command
• 1x Read the Bones
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Sign in Blood
• 1x Stitch Together
• 1x Temporal Extortion
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Victimize

Land (38)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Dark Depths
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 31x Swamp
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms

Commander (1)

Artifact (11)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Chaos Wand
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Panharmonicon
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Strionic Resonator

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dead Man's Chest
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

---

Maybeboard

Instant (11)

• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Culling the Weak
• 1x Dark Bargain
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Makeshift Mannequin
• 1x Moonlight Bargain
• 1x Sickening Shoal
• 1x Supernatural Stamina
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Treacherous Urge
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Ritual of the Machine
• 1x Soul Strings
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Walk the Plank
• 1x Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
• 1x Zombify

Artifact (10)

• 1x Blade of Selves
• 1x Blood Clock
• 1x Cloudstone Curio
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Minion Reflector
• 1x Nim Deathmantle
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Voyager Staff
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Black Market
• 1x Deadly Designs
• 1x Hedonist's Trove
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Recurring Nightmare
• 1x Spreading Plague

Creature (9)

• 1x Dark Impostor
• 1x Endless Cockroaches
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Kheru Mind-Eater
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Oblivion Sower
• 1x Relentless Dead

Land (4)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower

---

This is a FUN deck to pilot. Like holy smokes try out Gonti if you ever get a chance. I like to think of it as a 75% deck...but it really scales to whoever you play against.

The basic idea behind this one is to loop Gonti as many times as possible with sac recursion, and pull fun stuff from your opponent, that engine can stall sometimes but for the most part it runs like a charm. The big mana can be thrown into the more expensive 5-6 mana cards, or as a game ender with Profane Command, Torment of Hailfire, or Exsangunate.

The engine comes largely from sacrifice effects that benefit me, like Morbid Curiosity or Soldevi Adnate or Fleshbag Marauder/Merciless Executioner, creatures with great ETBs like Solemn Simulacrum or Ravenous Chupacabra, creatures to repeat the sac effects like Nether Traitor or Reassembling Skeleton, and ways to recur anything like Hell's Caretaker or Reanimate.

Now, since you don't have to do much besides recur Gonti, the rest of the deck is just built for mono-black funtime effects. There are a few Gonti-likes, a la Praetor's Grasp/Sepulchral Primordial/Dead Man's Chest. I put in my prized copy of Dark Depths from when I first started playing MTG, and a few cards in there like Vampire Hexmage and AEther Snap for a fun alternative Win Condition, because how many times do you get to play Marit Lage?!?

Other fun stuff in there:Misinformation which lets you pick a card out of your opponent's grave to play, Temporal Extortion for the unique mono-black extra turn, Sudden Spoiling to ruin an opponent's day, and the now-more-affordable Damnation.

Notable exclusions include Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx and Gray Merchant of Asphodel, both because I rarely have enough symbols on the board to make them work (most things go to the graveyard and back again), also Hedonist's Trove and Kheru Mind-Eater simply because the colored mana costs made for dead cards, I'd rather have another sac effect and another recursion effect to get more Gonti going on. That said, the deck is a constant back-and-forth, so included in the maybe-board are all of the cards that I liked...just not enough to put in the deck. Maybe you can use them!

I love this deck, and I have a feeling you will too.

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 24 - 0 Uncommons 10 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Marit Lage
Folders	Print EDH Decks