Your Loss, My Gain by Slayus

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is an oppressive Mono-Black Discard and Resource Denial strategy commanded by Tinybones, Bauble Burglar. The primary game plan focuses on stripping opponents of cards through aggressive, symmetric discard spells like Dark Deal, Bottomless Pit, and Delirium Skeins. While opponents are reduced to top-deck mode, Tinybones, Bauble Burglar breaks parity by exiling those cards with stash counters, allowing the pilot to cast opposing spells with any mana type. The deck compounds this advantage through high-impact engines such as Waste Not, Geth's Grimoire, and Tergrid, God of Fright, which turns discarded permanents into a commanding battlefield presence. To close games, the deck leverages a compact infinite combo between Professor Onyx and Chain of Smog, an alternate loop with Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, or massive mana outlets like Torment of Hailfire. The strategy dominates slower tables by starving them of resources while assembling decisive win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Delirium Skeins
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hostile Investigator
  • 1 Hymn to Tourach
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Liliana's Triumph
  • 1 Mind Rake
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necrogen Mists
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professor Onyx
  • 1 Rankle's Prank
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not