Rogues Hit the Mill (Anowon, the Ruin Thief)

Commander / EDH* Horror Mill Rogues Tempo UB (Dimir)

Latch

Rogues (22)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Faerie Miscreant
• 1x Merfolk Windrobber
• 1x Nightshade Stinger
• 1x Slither Blade
• 1x Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Faerie Vandal
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Mercurial Spelldancer
• 1x Picklock Prankster
• 1x Shoreline Looter
• 1x Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Notorious Throng
• 1x Stinkdrinker Bandit
• 1x Zareth San, the Trickster

Lands (37)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Hydroelectric Laboratory  ^Flip
• 15x Island
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Unclaimed Territory

Mill (6)

• 1x Merfolk Windrobber
• 1x Thieves' Guild Enforcer
• 1x Picklock Prankster
• 1x Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1x Captain N'ghathrod
• 1x Breach the Multiverse

Ramp (3)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Interaction (14)

• 1x Hydroelectric Laboratory  ^Flip
• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Feed the Cycle
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Malicious Affliction
• 1x Unified Will
• 1x Flare of Denial
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Snuff Out
• 1x Misdirection
• 1x Submerge

Scales off mill (13)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Merfolk Windrobber
• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Shoreline Looter
• 1x Soaring Thought-Thief
• 1x Nighthawk Scavenger
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Captain N'ghathrod
• 1x Guiltfeeder
• 1x Zareth San, the Trickster
• 1x Breach the Multiverse

Equipment/Auras (8)

• 1x Combat Research
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Goggles of Night
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Sleeper's Robe
• 1x Ophidian Eye

Non Rogues (4)

• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Captain N'ghathrod
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Guiltfeeder

Recursion (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Victimize

Tutors (1)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Commander (1)

Draw (13)

• 1x Combat Research
• 1x Curiosity
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Mask of Memory
• 1x Military Intelligence
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Picklock Prankster
• 1x Rogue's Gloves
• 1x Shoreline Looter
• 1x Sleeper's Robe
• 1x Brainsurge
• 1x Notion Thief

Theft (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Thieving Skydiver
• 1x Arcane Heist
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Captain N'ghathrod
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Zareth San, the Trickster
• 1x Breach the Multiverse

Bombs (7)

• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Double Down
• 1x Nanogene Conversion
• 1x Notorious Throng
• 1x Breach the Multiverse
• 1x Knowledge Exploitation

Removal (1)

• 1x Feed the Swarm

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Sideboard

Other (27)

• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fell Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Horizon of Progress
• 1x Hydroelectric Laboratory  ^Flip
• 1x Soporific Springs  ^Flip
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Behind the Mask
• 1x Curious Inquiry
• 1x Into the Flood Maw
• 1x Mirrodin Avenged
• 1x Nethergoyf
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Dream-Thief's Bandana
• 1x Fell
• 1x Long River's Pull
• 1x Ripples of Undeath
• 1x Shoot the Sheriff
• 1x Spell Stutter
• 1x Back for Seconds
• 1x Barrowgoyf
• 1x Case of the Shifting Visage
• 1x Diresight
• 1x Halo Forager
• 1x Reenact the Crime
• 1x Season of Weaving

Interaction (2)

• 1x Memory Lapse
• 1x Reenact the Crime

Shortlist (2)

• 1x Tinybones, the Pickpocket
• 1x Azure Beastbinder

Equipment/Auras (1)

• 1x Nighthowler

Horror (1)

• 1x Sewer Nemesis

Mill (1)

• 1x Sewer Nemesis

Theft or Copy (1)

• 1x Reenact the Crime

Scales off mill (2)

• 1x Reenact the Crime
• 1x Sewer Nemesis

Creatures (1)

• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus

Draw (1)

• 1x Sea-Dasher Octopus

Equipment Aura (1)

• 1x Bonehoard

Non Rogues (1)

• 1x Nighthowler

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Maybeboard

Mill (4)

• 1x Cruel Somnophage
• 1x Krydle of Baldur's Gate
• 1x Fractured Sanity
• 1x Consuming Aberration

Horror (2)

• 1x Cruel Somnophage
• 1x Consuming Aberration

Ramp (2)

• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Talisman of Dominance

Scales off mill (1)

• 1x Consuming Aberration

Creatures (3)

• 1x Cruel Somnophage
• 1x Likeness Looter
• 1x Mischievous Catgeist  ^Flip

Draw (2)

• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Mischievous Catgeist  ^Flip

Interaction (2)

• 1x Ghastly Demise
• 1x Slip Out the Back

Theft or Copy (1)

• 1x Steal Enchantment

Rogues (3)

• 1x Prickly Boggart
• 1x Vampire Cutthroat
• 1x Krydle of Baldur's Gate

Equipment/Auras (2)

• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Psychic Paper

Recursion (1)

• 1x Likeness Looter

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Recent Thoughts: - avg CMC needs help... need to either: increase mana rocks or treasure generators, reduce CMC of interaction, reduce amount of interaction. Might swap one more equipment for a draw 2-3 spell too, as equipment can struggle to smooth curve when it costs 2 + 2 over 2 turns.

Recent updates: - Krydle REPLACED by Mercurial Spelldancer - prickly boggart REPLACED by picklock prankster - Vampire cuthroat REPLACED by shoreline looter - Cruel somnophage REPLACED by feed the cycle - slip out the back REPLACED by double down - Psychic paper REPLACED by flare of denial (OOFT COST) - Mischievous catgeist REPLACED by brainsurge - Consuming aberration REPLACED by stinkdrinker bandit - Fractured sanity REPLACED by arcane heist - Mask of Riddles REPLACED by Goggles of Night - Replace a swamp with darkwater catacombs - Nighthowler REPLACED by Talisman of Dominance - Island REPLACED by hydroelectric laboratory

Changes that need to be reflected in paper deck. Note, need to be reconciled with changes above ^^^ - replace Fellwar Stone with Notorious Throng - Replace soul shatter with unified will - replace thought vessel with malicious affliction - replace metamorphic alteration with nanogene conversion - replace mirrormade with nighthowler - replace oona's blackguard with psychic paper - replace likeness looter with victimize - replace sewer nemesis with cruel somnophage

Firstly, this deck has tried to be budget friendly at the time it was made. However, it has been updated with some more costly cards (knowledge exploitation, dauthi voidwalker, Pongify, Notorious Throng) that would need to be cut for a budget build.

The deck was designed for a fun, late-game dynamic but consistent early-game play experience and it is hoped that while this strategy is not particularly powerful, it opens up unique/interesting lines of play with theft mechanics.

Now, on to the strategy: It's essentially a two-phase deck: Phase one is a tempo deck that is built on exploiting traditional EDH threat assessment (or, game theory) and EDH's ramp-orientated early game by flooding the board early with rogues that can be turned into card draw engines, but which also mill our opponents. Phase 2 follows this up with a pivot to GY steal and/or horror creature big threats that scale off graveyards.

Phase one works on the basis of the game theory that in the very early game our opponents would preference their development over curbing ours due to the multiplayer nature of EDH. This is because removing our 1cmc or 2cmc rogue-turned-draw-engine on turn 3 would put them behind on board development compared to the other two players, so it's a losing move for them. Indeed, our rogue-turned-draw-engines are deliberately costed aggressively so that these engines come online on turns earlier than our opponents feel willing to respond to (at a loss of their turn 2-3 development), and consequently don't draw much threat level. Eventually they do get wiped, but because our board was low cost, and our mana curve is so low, we aren't set back and we can redeploy quickly due to aggressive costings, or if we've drawn into our phase 2 cards, can pivot.

The other beauty is that this tempo rogues start sets up a beautiful pivot into phase 2. Several of our rogues have mill effects attached, or are fuelled by our commander. This builds graveyards into ripe targets for our scaling-horrors, or our GY steal cards. Additionally, we have a few ninjutsu cards to swap in some powerful on-hit ninja triggers that synergise with GYs, like Zareth.

In short, our deck takes advantage of game theory and abuses the standard EDH meta of prioritising ramp to have a fairly consistent, cheap and effective early game that sets up a fun and dynamic (if underpowered) late game.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 months
Legality	This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 3 Mythic Rares 29 - 16 Rares 28 - 11 Uncommons 14 - 5 Commons
Cards	101
Avg. CMC	2.56
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Clue, Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Fish 1/1 U, On an Adventure, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Treasure