tiniest of the bones by emmurio

Format: Commander

Commander: Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a monoblack discard and attrition control strategy commanded by Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance. The primary plan systematically empties opposing hands using redundant multi-opponent discard creatures like Burglar Rat, Virus Beetle, and Hecteyes, converting hand disruption into incremental table-wide damage through Tinybones's triggered ability. The deck establishes its commander on Turn 3 and reaches an oppressive resource choke around Turn 6, forcing opponents into top-deck mode. High-impact attrition permanents such as Painful Quandary and Enemy of Enlightenment punish remaining plays, while Tinybones, Bauble Burglar and Dauthi Voidwalker repurpose discarded resources. Because the deck lacks infinite combos or mass burst finishers, closing the game requires grinding down life totals across 4 or more response cycles using incremental ping damage and creature combat. Rich creature removal keeps opposing boards clear, though the list remains vulnerable to board sweepers and artifact-based strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arbiter of Woe
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Capital City
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Cerebral Confiscation
  • 1 Chitin Gravestalker
  • 1 Corrupt Court Official
  • 1 Cracked Skull
  • 1 Cruel Grimnarch
  • 1 Dai Li Indoctrination
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Dream Seizer
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Easy Prey
  • 1 Elspeth's Nightmare
  • 1 Elvish Doomsayer
  • 1 Enemy of Enlightenment
  • 1 Extended Absence
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gideon the Oathless
  • 1 Heartless Pillage
  • 1 Hecteyes
  • 1 Last Gasp
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Memory Leak
  • 1 Memory Theft
  • 1 Miasmic Mummy
  • 1 Mind Drain
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Murmuring Volume
  • 1 Night Market
  • 1 Orzhov Racketeers
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Pilfer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Poison the Waters
  • 1 Pox Plague
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Psychic Whorl
  • 1 Rank Rat
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Screeching Soulbreaker
  • 1 Seeker's Folly
  • 1 Send in the Pest
  • 1 Shredder's Revenge
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Solve for Disappointment
  • 1 Soul-Shackled Zombie
  • 1 Stab
  • 1 Suffocating Fumes
  • 36 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terminal Criticism
  • 1 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
  • 1 Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
  • 1 Virus Beetle
  • 1 Visage of Dread // Dread Osseosaur
  • 1 Vraska's Final Mercy
  • 1 Without Weakness
  • 1 Wrench Mind