Rogues by user9586290

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an aggressive Dimir tempo and kindred strategy commanded by Anowon, the Ruin Thief. The primary game plan revolves around deploying cheap, evasive Rogues such as Slither Blade and Triton Shorestalker in the opening turns, then casting Anowon to establish a repeatable card advantage engine via combat damage mill triggers. By depleting opposing libraries, the deck fuels reanimation and theft payoffs like Zareth San, the Trickster, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Tinybones, the Pickpocket. The deck transitions into a lethal win condition through high-impact prowl spells, most notably Notorious Throng, which generates a swarm of Faerie Rogue tokens and takes an extra turn to close out the game. Supported by efficient countermagic (Fierce Guardianship, Counterspell), mass board manipulation (Raise the Palisade), and potent disruption (Opposition Agent, Notion Thief), the deck maintains table pressure while systematically advancing its evasive combat clock.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Anticognition
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Heist
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Back in Town
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cloak and Dagger
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Double Down
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Genji Glove
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Inkfathom Infiltrator
  • 8 Island
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Knowledge Exploitation
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mystical Teachings
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Quietus Spike
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shoreline Looter
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thieves' Fortune
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unwind
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zareth San, the Trickster