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Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue · {1}{B} · Black commander
Whenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.
During your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
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What Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 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 · discardWhenever an opponent discards a card, exile it from their graveyard with a stash counter on it.
- Activated ability{3}{B}, {T}: Each opponent discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery.
- Static ability · restrictionDuring your turn, you may play cards you don't own with stash counters on them from exile, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
What a Tinybones, Bauble Burglar deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 10× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 7× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- 11× Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- 13× Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
Best cards for Tinybones, Bauble Burglar
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.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Super State7 mana
- Lavaspur Boots1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana
Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
- Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
- Amulet of Vigor1 mana
- Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
- Umbral Mantle3 mana
- Genji Glove5 mana
- Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
- Tiller Engine2 mana
- Sword of the Paruns4 mana
Makes opponents discard — the fuel a discard-punishing commander feeds on
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
- Hopeless Nightmare1 mana
- Rankle, Master of Pranks4 mana
- Bandit's Talent2 mana
- The Raven Man2 mana
- Tourach, Dread Cantor2 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Sheoldred // The True Scriptures5 mana
Exiles from your own library and lets you play it — the card flow of an exile-matters commander
- Ugin's Labyrinth0 mana
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar2 mana
- Endless Sands0 mana
- Mimic Vat3 mana
- Bag of Holding1 mana
- Currency Converter1 mana
- Dawnhand Dissident1 mana
- Dino DNA1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
- Forced March3 mana
- Nature's Ruin3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Kederekt Parasite1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana