Anowon

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Anowon, the Ruin Thief leads an evasive Rogue tribal deck that wins by converting combat damage into mill and cards. The primary plan is to deploy unblockable Rogues (Invisible Stalker, Slither Blade, Marang River Prowler), resolve Anowon for +1/+1 and mill 1 per damage with a draw when a creature is milled, and grind opponents via incremental mill and chip damage amplified by Bident of Thassa and Military Intelligence. Secondary paths are infinite combos: Duskmantle Guildmage + Mindcrank (any mill or life loss loops) and Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond, plus Duskmantle + Maddening Cacophony + Riverchurn Monument. Anowon is the central draw and mill multiplier, not a combo piece; Duskmantle Guildmage acts as hidden commander as the combo outlet.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Back in Town
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Cephalid Facetaker
• 1 Cloak and Dagger
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Darkslick Shores
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Tempest
• 1 Didn't Say Please
• 1 Distant Melody
• 1 Double Down
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1 Enigma Thief
• 1 Escape Tunnel
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Faerie Vandal
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Frogtosser Banneret
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Ghostly Pilferer
• 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Inkfathom Witch
• 1 Invisible Stalker
• 11 Island
• 1 Knowledge Exploitation
• 1 Maddening Cacophony
• 1 Marang River Prowler
• 1 Merfolk Windrobber
• 1 Military Intelligence
• 1 Mindcrank
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Nephalia Drownyard
• 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1 Notorious Throng
• 1 Obelisk of Urd
• 1 Oona's Blackguard
• 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Quietus Spike
• 1 Ravenform
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Riverchurn Monument
• 1 Rogue Class
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shoreline Looter
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Manipulation
• 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sure-Footed Infiltrator
• 10 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Sword of Body and Mind
• 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Teferi's Veil
• 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 1 Thieving Skydiver
• 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
• 1 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Zareth San, the Trickster