Charming Bandits by PillowOfFire

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is led by Tinybones, Bauble Burglar, focusing on symmetric hand destruction, incremental discard punishment, and resource theft. The deck deploys low-cost discard creatures and spells early to strip away opposing options, immediately exiling those discarded cards under stash counters. Because Tinybones allows you to spend any mana color to cast these exiled cards on your turn, you break the symmetry of hand depletion by using your opponents' best spells against them. Midgame enchantments and artifacts like Megrim, Shrieking Affliction, and Entropic Battlecruiser turn empty hands into a deadly damage clock. High-end finishers like Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Breach the Multiverse close out the table by converting graveyards and devotion into game-ending swings. The deck thrives on grinding tables down into topdeck mode while maintaining a full suite of death-trigger protection spells to keep its key permanents on the battlefield.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Specter
  • 1 Asylum Visitor
  • 1 Bandit's Talent
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Behold the Sinister Six!
  • 1 Black Cat, Cunning Thief
  • 1 Bloodline Culling
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Cerebral Confiscation
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crabomination
  • 1 Dark Deal
  • 1 Dark Endurance
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Elderfang Disciple
  • 1 Entropic Battlecruiser
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fungal Fortitude
  • 1 Gonti, Night Minister
  • 1 Gravkill
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Hedron Archive
  • 1 Hopeless Nightmare
  • 1 Hostile Investigator
  • 1 Hypnotic Specter
  • 1 Investigator's Journal
  • 1 Invoke Despair
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Leaden Myr
  • 1 Liliana's Specter
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Nephalia Academy
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Oppression
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Pain 101
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Return to Action
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Shrieking Affliction
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 33 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Thieving Varmint
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tithing Blade // Consuming Sepulcher
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Villainous Wrath
  • 1 Vincent's Limit Break
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Wander Off
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble