Tinybones by GenericMTGPlayer

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This deck uses Tinybones, Bauble Burglar to turn opposing discard into access to cards from exile. Its best ordinary support is Waste Not, which converts discarded creatures, lands, and noncreature spells into Zombies, mana, and cards. The list has heavy redundancy for targeted discard and several repeatable sources, including Liliana of the Veil, Cunning Lethemancer, Rotting Rats, and The Raven Man. It also carries efficient creature removal and a few ways to protect or recur creatures. The central weakness is tempo: the commander costs two mana, but its full-table activation costs {4}{B}, is sorcery-speed, and requires the commander to survive. The deck can create strong attrition and steal useful opposing spells, but it does not reliably assemble a fast lethal package or a total lock. Cabal Coffers and Torment of Hailfire provide a late-game ceiling, not an ordinary clock. This is a functional casual-to-mid-power engine deck rather than a competitive combo or control list.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arterial Flow
  • 1 Auntie's Sentence
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Binding Negotiation
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackmail
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cunning Lethemancer
  • 1 Dai Li Indoctrination
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Despise
  • 1 Distress
  • 1 Divest
  • 1 Dread Fugue
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Extract the Truth
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Let's Play a Game
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana of the Veil
  • 1 Liliana's Caress
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Pilfer
  • 1 Poison the Waters
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stony-Voiced Goblins
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Tinybones Joins Up
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment