Tinybones by AndK

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Trinket Thief

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black attrition and discard control strategy commanded by Tinybones, Trinket Thief. The primary game plan focuses on deploying Tinybones early and rapidly stripping opponents of cards using symmetrical and multi-target discard engines such as Bottomless Pit, Burglar Rat, Dark Deal, and Necrogoyf. As opponents lose their hands, Tinybones converts their discards into consistent end-step card draw, providing superior card velocity. Once opponents enter topdeck mode around Turn 4 to 5, the deck transitions from disruption to execution. The primary win condition leverages Tinybones' activated ability ({4}{B}{B}) to repeatedly drain 10 life from each hellbent opponent, supported by passive damage dealers like Megrim, Entropic Battlecruiser, and Syr Konrad, the Grim, or massive late-game swings via Rise of the Dark Realms and Gray Merchant of Asphodel. While vulnerable to fast artifact combos and topdecked creature removal, its oppressive hand lock thoroughly dismantles conventional interactive strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Arterial Flow
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Bag of Holding
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Caged Sun
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Gibbering Descent
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Rake
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necrogoyf
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rank Rat
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 1 Stronghold Discipline
  • 1 Stronghold Rats
  • 20 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 The Eldest Reborn
  • 1 The Haunt of Hightower
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
  • 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Witch's Cottage