Anowon Milling by Gzy_Montana

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck executes a high-synergy Dimir tempo strategy that blends Rogue tribal combat damage with potent mill engines and compact infinite combos. Helmed by Anowon, the Ruin Thief, the deck leverages evasive early creatures such as Changeling Outcast and Thieves' Guild Enforcer to chip away at life totals, mill libraries, and generate steady card advantage. Simultaneously, asymmetric hate pieces like Torpor Orb, Cursed Totem, and Opposition Agent slow down opposing game plans without disrupting the deck's own triggers. The deck seeks to close the game on Turn 4 via the infinite mill-and-drain loop of Duskmantle Guildmage or Bloodchief Ascension paired with Mindcrank, backed by an alternate one-shot mill line featuring Bruvac the Grandiloquent and Maddening Cacophony. A dense suite of free and low-cost interaction defends these key pieces from opposing removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alela, Cunning Conqueror
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archive Trap
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drown in Dreams
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ruin Crab
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
  • 1 The Mindskinner
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Torpor Orb
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witness Protection