9 keene / Spring 2025

Commander / EDH Alt Win Bracket 2 BUG (Sultai) Gate Lands Midrange

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Land (39)

• 1x Baldur's Gate
• 1x Basilisk Gate
• 1x Black Dragon Gate
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Breeding Pool
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Field of the Dead
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Forest
• 1x Gateway Plaza
• 1x Golgari Guildgate
• 1x Gond Gate
• 1x Heap Gate
• 1x Hedge Maze
• 1x Island
• 1x Manor Gate
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Maze's End
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Planar Nexus
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sea Gate
• 1x Simic Guildgate
• 1x Talon Gates of Madara
• 1x The Black Gate
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Thran Portal
• 1x Undercity Sewers
• 1x Underground Mortuary
• 1x Urza's Saga
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Vesuva
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Instant (21)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archdruid's Charm
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Berserk
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Feed the Cycle
• 1x Fell the Profane  ^Flip
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Vigor
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Growth Spiral
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Negate
• 1x Revitalizing Repast  ^Flip
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Tamiyo's Safekeeping
• 1x Urgent Necropsy
• 1x Veil of Summer

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Alpha Authority
• 1x Bear Umbra
• 1x Canopy Cover
• 1x Combat Research
• 1x Copy Land
• 1x Imprisoned in the Moon
• 1x Meathook Massacre 2
• 1x Mystic Remora
• 1x Song of the Dryads
• 1x Spelunking
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Walk-In Closet / Forgotten Cellar

Artifact (4)

• 1x Amulet of Vigor
• 1x Shadowspear
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sword of Feast and Famine

Commander (1)

Creature (12)

• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Blossoming Tortoise
• 1x Cavalier of Thorns
• 1x Faerie Mastermind
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Skyserpent Seeker
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Sowing Mycospawn
• 1x The Gitrog Monster
• 1x Tiller Engine
• 1x Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1x World Breaker

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Bala Ged Recovery  ^Flip
• 1x Explore
• 1x Life from the Loam
• 1x Pillage the Bog
• 1x Reshape the Earth
• 1x Scapeshift
• 1x Solve the Equation
• 1x Tempt with Discovery
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Windfall
• 1x Witherbloom Command

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9-Fingers Keene blends - three win conditions:

• Maze’s End Combo – Playing Gates until you control 10 unique ones, instantly winning the game (if you have one of the three cards that keep lands untapped on the battlefield).
• Commander Damage – Keene has a unique Ward ability and Menace, making her a great target for buffs.
• Field of the Dead Grind – (Less valuable and not the main focus) Creating an army of zombie tokens that can change the late game.

Opponents need to interact early with your lands, or you will win out of nowhere.

• Keene’s unique Ward ability forces opponents to spend resources just to interact with her. With the right buffs, Keene can kill in 2-3 swings.

Field of the Dead can also win you the game. It synergizes with mana ramp; for example, casting Scapeshift or Reshape the Earth → Instant zombie army.

One of my favorite decks I’ve built, if not my absolute favorite.

but :

• Weak to land destruction – If Maze’s End and recursion pieces are exiled, the deck glow down
• Keene itself could be better...(if only her cmc was UBG..)– Needs some setup turns before stabilizing.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	15 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 51 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Construct 0/0 C, Plot, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B