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Tinybones, the Pickpocket

Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue · {B} · Black commander

Deathtouch Whenever Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

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What Tinybones, the Pickpocket 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 Tinybones deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target nonland permanent card from that player's graveyard, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.
• Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch

What a Tinybones, the Pickpocket deck needs

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

• evasion and protection for the commander (its combat damage casts a permanent from that player's graveyard)
• opponent mill and discard to fill their graveyards

The Tinybones, the Pickpocket deck plan

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

• 12× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 3× Answer a whole board at once
• 12× Refill your hand
• 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Tinybones, the Pickpocket

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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