Why Are You Hitting Yourself? by OriginalSith

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-black discard-and-drain control deck built around Tinybones, Bauble Burglar. The primary plan is to strip opponents' hands with a dense suite of ETB discard creatures and discard sorceries, then turn empty hands into life-total pressure through Megrim, Shrieking Affliction, Quest for the Nihil Stone, and Bandit's Talent. Waste Not and The Raven Man convert the same discards into mana, cards, and tokens, while Tinybones's exile-cast ability-backed by Gonti, Night Minister and Outrageous Robbery-adds a spell-theft value subtheme. The finish is incremental rather than combo-based: repeated drain from rack effects, burst from Rankle's Prank, and a devotion-fueled Gray Merchant of Asphodel. It is a midrange attrition deck that can pivot between hand disruption, board control, and stealing opponents' cards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Cover-Up
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Delirium Skeins
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hopeless Nightmare
  • 1 Hostile Investigator
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Gains
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Miasmic Mummy
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Outrageous Robbery
  • 1 Phyrexian Scriptures
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Quest for the Nihil Stone
  • 1 Rankle's Prank
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Refurbished Familiar
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Smallpox
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Succumb to Temptation
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Undying Evil
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Winter Moon