Anowon Mill by user4679680

Format: Commander

Commander: Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir Rogues tribal attrition deck built entirely around Anowon, the Ruin Thief. The plan is to deploy cheap evasive Rogues - Changeling Outcast, Invisible Stalker, Merfolk Windrobber, and the flying Faerie Rogues - get through to opponents, mill cards equal to damage dealt, and convert that mill into cards via Anowon's draw trigger. The graveyards then feed a web of payoffs: Syr Konrad, the Grim drains the table on every milled creature, Consuming Aberration and Bonehoard/Nighthowler scale into monsters, and Extract from Darkness, Endless Obedience, and Fated Return reanimate the best creatures opponents were forced to mill. Games close through attrition rather than combos: Scytheclaw halving life totals, a prowled Notorious Throng extra turn with a flying token swarm, Oona, Queen of the Fae's mana-sink army, and Blackblade Reforged commander-damage blowouts, with theft elements like Zareth San, the Trickster, Gonti, Lord of Luxury, and Whispersteel Dagger stealing the opponents' own cards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Anowon, the Ruin Thief
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Bonehoard
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concerted Defense
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Keyrune
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Enigma Thief
  • 1 Epicure of Blood
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faerie Vandal
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frogtosser Banneret
  • 1 Gonti, Lord of Luxury
  • 1 Grindstone
  • 1 Invisible Stalker
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Latchkey Faerie
  • 1 Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
  • 1 Maddening Cacophony
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flitter
  • 1 Master Thief
  • 1 Merfolk Windrobber
  • 1 Military Intelligence
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nighthowler
  • 1 Nightveil Sprite
  • 1 Nimana Skydancer
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Notorious Throng
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oona's Blackguard
  • 1 Oona, Queen of the Fae
  • 1 Open into Wonder
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Price of Fame
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scytheclaw
  • 1 Shadow Stinger
  • 1 Silumgar's Command
  • 1 Soaring Thought-Thief
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Manipulation
  • 1 Stinkdrinker Bandit
  • 1 Stonework Packbeast
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sure-Footed Infiltrator
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Whirler Rogue
  • 1 Whispersteel Dagger
  • 1 Zareth San, the Trickster
  • 1 Zof Consumption // Zof Bloodbog
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat