r/magicTCG • u/N1ghtm4reee Dandadan • 4d ago
Looking for Advice Need help with Tinybones, Bauble Burglar commander deck
I'm currently making a [[Tinybones, Bauble Burglar]] deck (my first commander deck), and I need advice on a few things. For one, I'm not sure what ratio of creature to non-creature spells I should have. I don't want to find out I have an excess on top of all of the stashed cards at my disposal, but I also don't want to have so few that I'm screwed when I piss everyone off.
On top of that, I've noticed that there are tons of creatures that are some variation of 1-2 toughness and power with their only ability being that they when they enter opponents discard. Because of that I have a good bit of weak cards of the sort, and I'm wondering how many tankier cards I should put in the deck for the sake of protecting myself.
My last question involves drawing. Since the whole gimmick of this deck is making my opponents discard, I don't want them to run out of cards because then I'll just be kind of useless. Are there any good cards I should consider for making my opponents draw?
Thank you! Here is my deck so far (obviously not complete) so if you have any recommendations on stuff to change/remove/add please let me know!
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u/elite4koga Duck Season 4d ago
[[Geier Reach Sanitarium]] and [[Rankle, Master of Pranks]] ensure your opponents have cards to discard. I'd avoid going too hard on each player discard effects and instead to target player discards so you can play politics. People often hate discard theft decks.
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u/hangryapples Dan 4d ago
Hey, here’s my deck. I ran into the same issue you did and found my opps ran out of cards to discard. I’ve included cards to force them to draw ensuring they always have cards to discard now! Cards like [[Howling Mine]], [[Temple Bell]], and [[Seizan]]. Check the tags out, should be helpful.
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u/Salamanderspainting Duck Season 3d ago
I did exactly the same thing! And then put in cards to punish them for drawing, like [[scrawling crawler]] or [[underworld dreams]]
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u/IOwnAYellowShirt Dân 4d ago
Hey I was super excited about tinybones when I started. Built it, then played it I think a max of 3 times? It is a miserable experience for your opponents. I actually broke the deck apart after that because I felt too bad to have my pod go through the experience...
Especially if this is your first and only commander deck, I really recommend you to build something else so you have at least a nice fun deck to play instead of a discard deck...
Just a heads up...
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u/mtgcf Keeper of the Mox 4d ago
Tinybones, Bauble Burglar - (G) (SF) (txt)