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 Tinybones, the Pickpocket
• 1x Triton Shorestalker
• 1x Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1x Faerie Vandal
• 1x Ghostly Pilferer
• 1x Invisible Stalker
• 1x Looter il-Kor
• 1x Mercurial Spelldancer
• 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

Draw (12)

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

Non Rogues (4)

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

Ramp (3)

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

Scales off mill (17)

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

Lands (36)

• 1x Castle Vantress
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Hydroelectric Laboratory  ^Flip
• 13x Island
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 12x Swamp
• 1x Unclaimed Territory

Bombs (7)

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

Recursion (2)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Victimize

Tutors (1)

• 1x Scheming Symmetry

Commander (1)

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

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

Mill (5)

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

Removal (1)

• 1x Feed the Swarm

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Sideboard

Other (11)

• 1x Darkslick Shores
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Nethergoyf
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Azure Beastbinder
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Mask of Riddles
• 1x Barrowgoyf
• 1x Case of the Shifting Visage
• 1x Diresight
• 1x Lunar Insight

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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.

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 cards that scale off mill.

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	4 years
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 1 Mythic Rares 30 - 7 Rares 27 - 2 Uncommons 14 - 1 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.55
Tokens	Bird 2/2 U, Copy Clone, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Treasure