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Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue · {2}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

Other Rogues you control get +1/+1. Whenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a card. (To mill a card, a player puts the top card of their library into their graveyard.)

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What Anowon, the Ruin Thief actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · deals_damageWhenever one or more Rogues you control deal combat damage to a player, that player mills a card for each 1 damage dealt to them. If the player mills at least one creature card this way, you draw a ca
• Static ability · lordOther Rogues you control get +1/+1.

What an Anowon, the Ruin Thief deck needs

Plays as rogue typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• rogue creatures (its text counts them)
• many cheap evasive attackers and team evasion (every creature that connects triggers it)

The Anowon, the Ruin Thief deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× A 0-1 mana creature that reliably attacks UNBLOCKED — the cost the commander's ability consumes, and the only way it gets onto the battlefield
• 27× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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