Tinybones, Trinket Thief

Tinybones is all about forcing your opponents to discard cards while you draw into threats and answers. The core gameplan revolves around playing discard-themed effects like Dark Deal, Necrogen Mists, and Syphilis Specialist that make everyone discard at the end of turn—but Tinybones ensures you're the only one profiting, drawing cards and slowly draining opponents. You'll fill your hand with resources while keeping enemies off balance. Once you've locked down the table with card advantage, you can either close out the game through commander damage (Tinybones grows stronger with equipment), combat-focused threats, or the ultimate finisher: emptying an opponent's hand and activating the activated ability for 10 damage.

The deck wins through a mix of attrition and inevitability. Your discard strategy doesn't just lock opponents out—it generates so much card draw that you'll naturally assemble a winning position with creatures, removal, or combo pieces. Alternatively, if you get an opponent to empty their hand, Tinybones' second ability becomes a backdoor win condition that's surprisingly easy to trigger in a discard-heavy shell.

Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.