Tinybones, the Pickpocket by AmbiguousGoop

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power mono-black control, discard, and reanimator strategy commanded by Tinybones, the Pickpocket. The game plan revolves around systematically dismantling opponents' resources through mill and discard engines, then leveraging their graveyards for your own advantage. Early plays establish acceleration with Sol Ring, Ancient Tomb, and Jet Medallion alongside disruption pieces like Mesmeric Orb and Tinybones Joins Up. With evasion enabled by Shizo, Death's Storehouse, Access Tunnel, or Skeleton Key, Tinybones connects to cast high-value nonland permanents directly from opposing graveyards. The midgame escalates through crushing asymmetric attrition using Tergrid, God of Fright, Mindslicer, and Dark Deal, transferring discarded permanents onto your battlefield. The deck closes games swiftly via compact two-card combos, primarily Bloodchief Ascension paired with Mindcrank, or secondary threats like Dark Depths with Vampire Hexmage and mass reanimation via Breach the Multiverse and Rise of the Dark Realms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anvil of Bogardan
  • 1 Balustrade Spy
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Filth
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grisly Spectacle
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mindslicer
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Returned Reveler
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scavenger Grounds
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 14 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sword of Body and Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Informer
  • 1 Unseal the Necropolis
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampire Hexmage
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Withering Torment