Empty Your Pockets by user4617920

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir tempo build commanded by Anowon, the Ruin Thief that blends evasive Rogue tribal aggression with aggressive library depletion. Early turns focus on deploying cheap, unblockable attackers like Changeling Outcast and Slither Blade to establish an immediate presence. Once Anowon hits the battlefield, combat connections mill defending players and draw cards whenever creature cards enter opposing graveyards. As the game develops, the deck pivots into game-ending mill payoffs like Maddening Cacophony, Cut Your Losses, and Consuming Aberration, or takes extra turns with Notorious Throng. The deck incorporates an extensive reactive package of counterspells and targeted removal alongside potent asymmetric graveyard hate such as Dauthi Voidwalker and Leyline of the Void. This hate stops opponents from exploiting their filled graveyards while you advance toward a library-out or combat victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
  • 1 Ashiok, Nightmare Muse
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cut Your Losses
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Devious Cover-Up
  • 1 Didn't Say Please
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Disdainful Stroke
  • 1 Dismiss
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fleet Swallower
  • 1 Flitterwing Nuisance
  • 1 Flitting Guerrilla
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Gravelgill Scoundrel
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 16 Island
  • 1 Jidoor, Aristocratic Capital // Overture
  • 1 Keening Stone
  • 1 Kitsune's Technique
  • 1 Krydle of Baldur's Gate
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Leyline of the Void
  • 1 Looter il-Kor
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mathemagics
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
  • 1 Psychic Corrosion
  • 1 Ring of the Lucii
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Terisian Mindbreaker
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Water Crystal
  • 1 Thieves' Guild Enforcer
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Undead Alchemist
  • 1 Unlicensed Hearse
  • 1 Walk the Plank
  • 1 Wild Unraveling