Rogue Tribal by Bushfire101

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Rogue tribal tempo list commander by Anowon, the Ruin Thief. The primary strategy deploys efficient, evasive Rogues during the early turns to trigger Anowon's combat damage abilities, steadily milling opponents' libraries while generating card advantage when creature cards hit the graveyard. As opposing graveyards fill, the deck transitions from chip damage to lethal pressure utilizing graveyard-scaled behemoths such as Consuming Aberration, Bonehoard, and Nighthowler, alongside theft effects like Zareth San, the Trickster and Dauthi Voidwalker. The list operates largely at sorcery speed during development, relying on a small suite of flexible answers like Drown in the Loch and Go for the Throat. While it generates reliable early card flow, its finishing clock relies on sequential combat steps without trample or wide token swarms, leaving its board state vulnerable to board wipes and graveyard interaction over extended response windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arvinox, the Mind Flail
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Blackbloom Rogue // Blackbloom Bog
  • 1 Bonehoard
  • 1 Brinebarrow Intruder
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demon of Loathing
  • 1 Demonic Embrace
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dire Undercurrents
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Expedition Skulker
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Fractured Sanity
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Ghostly Pilferer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Hidetsugu and Kairi
  • 1 Hoard Robber
  • 1 Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Krydle of Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Latchkey Faerie
  • 1 Letter of Acceptance
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Merfolk Windrobber
  • 1 Metropolis Sprite
  • 1 Mind Funeral
  • 1 Mindleech Mass
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palladium Myr
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Prosperous Thief
  • 1 Psychic Pickpocket
  • 1 Raise the Draugr
  • 1 Ravenous Gigamole
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riverchurn Monument
  • 1 Rogue Class
  • 1 Shadow Stinger
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Silver-Fur Master
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit
  • 1 Stromkirk Bloodthief
  • 1 Sure-Footed Infiltrator
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Long Reach of Night // Animus of Night's Reach
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Thought Collapse
  • 1 Undercity Scrounger
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wipe Away
  • 1 Zareth San, the Trickster
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat