Anowon EDH - Rogues

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Rogue-tribal mill-and-beatdown strategy helmed by Anowon, the Ruin Thief. The primary plan is to deploy a swarm of unblockable Rogues, leverage Anowon's combat-triggered mill to generate card advantage, and slowly drain opponents' libraries. Secondary win conditions include Syr Konrad, the Grim combined with Mindcrank for incremental burn, and Notorious Throng for an extra turn that accelerates the mill. The deck has no infinite combos; it relies on sustained pressure and value accumulation over multiple combat steps. Its speed is unremarkable, but the density of evasive creatures and cheap interaction gives it a consistent midrange presence.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Double Down
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul's Messenger
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Krydle of Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Military Intelligence
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Raise Repulsor Shields
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 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 Ruins
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Thada Adel, Acquisitor
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 True-Name Nemesis
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Visions of Beyond
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Zareth San, the Trickster