Tinybones Leaves You with Nothing

Commander / EDH Discard Mono-Black Theme/Gimmick

Romer

Discard (18)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Necrogoyf
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Virus Beetle
• 1x Words of Waste

Ramp (12)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Tutor (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Alt Win Cons (2)

• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Discard Synergy (15)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Containment Construct
• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogoyf
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip
• 1x Tourach, Dread Cantor
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Wheel of Torture

Removal (13)

• 1x Baleful Mastery
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Soul Shatter
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Graveyard Control (5)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Scavenger Grounds

Utility (2)

• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Lightning Greaves

Commander (1)

Land (36)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Demolition Field
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 23x Swamp
• 1x Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva

Card Advantage (11)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Waste Not

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Maybeboard

Other (3)

• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Lantern of the Lost

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Discard is a pretty rude mechanic, but typically it's only an annoyance. With this deck I'm aiming to cripple my opponents by completely emptying their hand... and discarding them to death.

Caution: Your opponents are going to hate this, so so much.

How Discard Kills

• Shrieking Affliction
• Liliana's Caress
• Megrim
• Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• Raiders' Wake
• Fell Specter
• Quest for the Nihil Stone
• Wheel of Torture
• Court of Ambition
• Painful Quandary

Then there's Tinybones himself, whose second ability lets me dump big mana from Cabal Coffers and Cabal Stronghold (with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth of course) to do big chunks of damage late-game.

Dealing with Creatures

This deck is super light on creatures so I have a few different strats to deal with opponents' creatures.

• Noetic Scales : The best creature solution, perfectly in sync with the discard gameplan. With no cards in hand, their creatures bounce back to their hand on upkeep. Then I make them discard those creatures.
• 4 mass removal, 6-7 single-target removal + a couple sacrifice spells.
• Ensnaring Bridge : Fine, have your creatures but they can't attack.

Long term, the plan is to empty each opponent's hand so they're just hoping to top-deck a creature.

Maybe-board contains cards I'd love to add if I could figure out what to cut.

Comments and suggestions welcome!

Top Ranked	Achieved #6 position overall 6 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Discard 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 4 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 months
Exclude colors	WURG
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 41 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.89
Tokens	Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	Cool concepts, edh decks, Great ideas, Interests, Reference, B Mono-Black, Discard, Check it out, ideas EDH, Inspiration