Anowon: Bribones by user1695420

Format: Commander

Creator: user1695420

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Dimir Rogue tempo and aggro build centered on Anowon, the Ruin Thief. The primary strategy deploys cheap, naturally evasive Rogues like Changeling Outcast, Slither Blade, and Triton Shorestalker in the earliest turns, curving into Anowon on Turn 4. Once assembled, unblocked combat damage mills opposing libraries and converts milled creature cards into steady card advantage. The deck leverages this flow to deploy tribal lords such as Stinkdrinker Bandit and Soaring Thought-Thief, steal opposing graveyards with Zareth San, the Trickster or Sepulchral Primordial, and eventually launch a critical onset via Notorious Throng on Turn 7. Lacking tutors, it relies on density and combat draws to find its closers, eliminating the table across two subsequent response cycles by Turn 10. While highly consistent at early chip damage, its prolonged combat clock leaves it vulnerable to mass creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bident of Thassa
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blue Sun's Twilight
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chart a Course
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Coldsteel Heart
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crippling Fear
  • 1 Daring Saboteur
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Latchkey Faerie
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Mercurial Spelldancer
  • 1 Merfolk Windrobber
  • 1 Military Intelligence
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nighthawk Scavenger
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Port of Karfell
  • 1 Predators' Hour
  • 1 Psychic Strike
  • 1 Relic of Legends
  • 1 Resculpt
  • 1 Restless Reef
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sky Diamond
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Sygg, River Cutthroat
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tasha, the Witch Queen
  • 1 Thassa, God of the Sea
  • 1 The Everflowing Well // The Myriad Pools
  • 1 Thief of Sanity
  • 1 Thieving Skydiver
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zareth San, the Trickster