Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Tinybones, Bauble Burglar

Mana Cost: {1}{B}

Type: Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue

Oracle Text:
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.

Power/Toughness: 1/3

Rarity: rare

Prints: View all prints (5) →

Expansion: Foundations Promos

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Character Background

Tinybones, Bauble Burglar reads like a compact value engine for a grindy, midrange/control or multiplayer value deck: it taxes opponents’ discarded cards and turns them into your toolbox, producing incremental card advantage every time they lose resources. The skeleton-rogue flavor is obvious — a kleptomaniac scavenger who nicks spells off the floor — and mechanically it rewards decks that can reliably induce discard (or live in multiplayer where multiple opponents mean multiple stash counters). Buildtips: include repeatable discard engines and “wheel” effects (Mind Rot, Wheel of Fortune/Windfall in formats that allow them) so Tinybones can exile lots of options, and pack mana rocks and tutors (Sol Ring/Arcane Signet, Demonic Tutor in Commander) to convert stolen threats into immediate answers — the rule allowing any color of mana to cast those exiled spells makes him brutal in mono-black or splashed decks. Protect Tinybones and play to the long game: the card is less about early aggression and more about compounding value and denial.

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