Tinybones, Hand Thief

Commander / EDH 8-Rack Devotion Discard Goodstuff Mono-Black

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Enchantment (17)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Court of Ambition
• 1x Leyline of the Void
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Necrogen Mists
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Quest for the Nihil Stone
• 1x Raiders' Wake
• 1x Shrieking Affliction
• 1x Waste Not
• 1x Words of Waste

Creature (13)

• 1x Asylum Visitor
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Dread Presence
• 1x Fell Specter
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Hypnotic Specter
• 1x Mindslicer
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Opposition Agent
• 1x Plaguecrafter
• 1x Rackling
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Tergrid, God of Fright  ^Flip

Land (35)

• 1x Arcane Lighthouse
• 1x Blast Zone
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Field of Ruin
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scavenger Grounds
• 20x Swamp
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vesuva

Sorcery (12)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Decree of Pain
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Mind Rake
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Never / Return
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Torment of Hailfire

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage
• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana of the Veil

Commander (1)

Artifact (14)

• 1x Anvil of Bogardan
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Endless Atlas
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Noetic Scales
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thought Vessel
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1x Wheel of Torture

Instant (5)

• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Malakir Rebirth  ^Flip
• 1x Slaughter Pact
• 1x Soul Shatter

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Creature (7)

• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cunning Lethemancer
• 1x Elderfang Disciple
• 1x Magus of the Coffers
• 1x Sangromancer

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Gibbering Descent

Artifact (5)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Bag of Holding
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Skullcage
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern

Instant (2)

• 1x Cabal Ritual
• 1x Dark Ritual

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Vicious Rumors

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Liliana, Waker of the Dead

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A pretty straightforward Tinybones discard deck. Discard is my favorite archetype so I kind of went all out with this one. Lots of cards that augment lands and increase mana generation. Killing power comes from stuff like Liliana's Caress , Rackling and Shrieking Affliction , as well as Tinybones, Trinket Thief 's second ability.

Idea is to get rid of hands, yours and your opponents, as fast as possible to take advantage of Ensnaring Bridge and Noetic Scales . Card advantage effects like Asylum Visitor , Phyrexian Arena , and Dread Presence should give you more options than your opponents once you've hand nuked everyone else. Dread Presence also has an interaction with Words of Waste which provides you with essentially discard on landfall, for the cost of 1 mana and 1 life.

Tutors like Demonic Tutor and Grim Tutor allow you to get the cards you need, usually either Ensnaring Bridge or Noetic Scales to keep you alive, or Cabal Coffers if that's not a worry to dramatically improve your mana generation. Opposition Agent + Scheming Symmetry provide huge value if you can land the combo.

There's also a couple cards like Bojuka Bog , Scavenger Grounds and Leyline of the Void for graveyard hate, in case someone is running recursion and we don't want to help them out by making them discard.

Another important combo is Dark Deal , along with Liliana's Caress , Megrim , and Raiders' Wake . Best case scenario, if you force opponents to discard 7 cards with all three out, that's 42 damage to everyone. Unlikely, considering the rest of the discard effects in the deck, but it can still be a game winning play.

Once your opponents don't have a hand, use mana manipulation through Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth , Cabal Stronghold , Vesuva / Thespian's Stage (Copying Cabal Coffers) as well as Caged Sun , Crypt Ghast , Liliana of the Dark Realms , and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx to power Tinybones' second ability and pump out some heavy damage. Torment of Hailfire provides an alternate wincon, along with Exsanguinate .

Date added	2 years
Last updated	2 years
Key combos	Cabal Coffers + Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Mythic Rares 45 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 7 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.05
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	My EDH Decks