[Deck] The Gate

[Captain Hammer]

Has anyone had any success with the Gate with the new cards...

Agadeem’s Awakening
Nullpriest of Oblivion
Bloodchief’s Thirst
Eliminate
Murderous Rider
Nighthawk Scavenger

or is the deck dead?

Hoping paper events start up again soon so I can take it to an FNM.

[Mr. Safety]

I want to have the cards available to play this deck, so I'll be grabbing those cards anyways, but I haven't had a chance to even goldfish it. I think it's a great option to have in your arsenal given a particular metagame.

[Reeplcheep]

Has anyone had any success with the Gate with the new cards...

Agadeem’s Awakening
Nullpriest of Oblivion
Bloodchief’s Thirst
Eliminate
Murderous Rider
Nighthawk Scavenger

or is the deck dead?

Hoping paper events start up again soon so I can take it to an FNM.

I don't play the deck because attacking with expensive creatures is not where I want to be in oko.fmt, but in my monoB curse stompy & pox both eliminate and murderous rider are great.

Scavenger & agadeems don't work well in stompy or pox because we don't have many creatures, but it could be great in the Gate.

An additional card that could be good for the deck is soul shatter; answers expensive pw & marit lage through veil.

[Evilpurplemonkey]

Notion thief is the new tutor hoser agent from the commander set.

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[Clark Kant]

Opposition Agent is incredible. Confidant and Hymn are as awesome as ever and black has gotten a ton of sweet new creatures and removal spells in recent sets.

I am wondering if a list along these lines could be made to work in Legacy...

4 Hymn to Tourach

4 Thoughtseize

2 Bloodchief’s Thirst

1 Fatal Push

1 Inquisition of Kozilek

1 Eliminate

1 Cling to Dust

1 Dark Ritual

1 Reanimate (or Unearth)


3 Liliana of the Veil

1 Liliana, the Last Hope


4 Dark Confidant

4 Opposition Agent

1 Nighthawk Scavenger

1 Nullpriest of Oblivion

1 Murderous Rider

1 Gatekeeper of Malakir

1 Gifted Aetherborn

1 Maralen of the Mornsong

1 Plague Engineer

1 Rotting Regisaur

1 Bitterblossom

0 Court of Ambition (or Jitte)


14 Swamp

4 Wasteland

2 Castle Lochwain

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Agadeem’s Awakening

1 Volrath’s Stronghold


Sideboard:

4 Leyline of the Void

3 Plague Engineer

3 Pithing Needle

2 Chains of Mephistopheles

2 Surgical Extraction

1 Cling to Dust

Would love to get input from the community on the list above.

Edit: Updated the list, cut the Court of Ambition for a Cling to Dust (better choice in this meta), and replaced a Dark Ritual with a swamp because this deck needed more stable mana sources. Feel good about these changes.

Edit 2: After a few dozen games on MTGO, Bitterblossom, Dark Confidant, Dark Ritual and Nighthawk Scavenger have all vastly exceeded expectations. I have now adopted playing playset of all four and cut a Swamp! On the same note, the Liliana planeswalkers havent been nearly as good as I hoped. Ive ended up cutting a few.

[KobeBryan]

Opposition Agent is incredible. Confidant and Hymn are as awesome as ever and black has gotten a ton of sweet new creatures and removal spells in recent sets.

I am wondering if a list along these lines could be made to work in Legacy...

4 Hymn to Tourach

4 Thoughtseize

2 Bloodchief’s Thirst

1 Fatal Push

1 Inquisition of Kozilek

1 Eliminate

1 Cling to Dust

1 Dark Ritual

1 Reanimate (or Unearth)


3 Liliana of the Veil

1 Liliana, the Last Hope


4 Dark Confidant

4 Opposition Agent

1 Nighthawk Scavenger

1 Nullpriest of Oblivion

1 Murderous Rider

1 Gatekeeper of Malakir

1 Gifted Aetherborn

1 Maralen of the Mornsong

1 Plague Engineer

1 Rotting Regisaur

1 Bitterblossom

0 Court of Ambition (or Jitte)


14 Swamp

4 Wasteland

2 Castle Lochwain

1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

1 Agadeem’s Awakening

1 Volrath’s Stronghold


Sideboard:

4 Leyline of the Void

3 Plague Engineer

3 Pithing Needle

2 Chains of Mephistopheles

2 Surgical Extraction

1 Cling to Dust

Would love to get input from the community on the list above.

Edit: Updated the list, cut the Court of Ambition for a Cling to Dust (better choice in this meta), and replaced a Dark Ritual with a swamp because this deck needed more stable mana sources. Feel good about these changes.

Edit 2: After a few dozen games on MTGO, Bitterblossom, Dark Confidant, Dark Ritual and Nighthawk Scavenger have all vastly exceeded expectations. I have now adopted playing playset of all four and cut a Swamp! On the same note, the Liliana planeswalkers havent been nearly as good as I hoped. Ive ended up cutting a few.

Whats the reason of all the 1 ofs?

[studderingdave]

I built The Gate as a pure binder pull for my room mate during my last Legacy event last week. He managed to win some matches having no reps with the deck and no real understanding of the Legacy scene.

This build is far from optimal but it serves the purpose well.

4 Bob
3 Regi
2 Nighthawk Scavenger
2 Aetherborn
3 Bitterblossom
4 Hymn
1 Jitte
1 Push
4 Lili
4 Dark Rit
2 Smallpox
3 Bloodchief's Thirst
1 Collective brutality
4 Thoughtseize
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Castle Locthwain
4 Vista
4 Wasteland
12 SC swamp

3 needle
2 plague engineer
2 feed the swarm
2 liliana's triumph
2 s extraction
2 gate to phyrexia
1 liliana the last hope
1 ravenous trap


gonna add a few things but keep the deck together as a backup. Opp agent is def going in. Agadeem's as well and maybe a few other things.