Tinybones Joins Up with Marchesa, Dealer of Death, in the Most Criminal Deck Ever!

Introduction

This is a Grixis deck concentrating on generating crimes with Tinybones Joins Up and turning the crimes to card advantage with Marchesa, Dealer of Death. Since Tinybones Joins Up works with legendary creatures, the deck features several powerful legendary creatures, such as Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. The deck also has Plaza of Heroes to protect the legends.

Deck Design

The deck has been designed to cover several aspects of gameplay as follows:

Crime Generation

Crime Consumption

Spot Removal

Torch the Tower can be bargained with Tinybones Joins Up.

Hand Hate

Life Gain

Card Draw

Card Selection

Direct Damage

Counterspells

Ertai is a legendary creature that can be used to counter spells and various abilities as well as to destroy creatures and planeswalkers.

Man-Lands

Format

• The deck is for the Standard format with Bloomburrow being the last legal set.
• The deck is probably Tier 1.5 or Tier 2 caliber.
• The deck can be played in both Bo1 and Bo3.

Source

The deck was originally based on:

• Grixis Crime Midrange by LegenVD

However, I have made a lot of changes to the deck and it took a whole new turn to become a legends deck.

Strategy

Plaza of Heroes

Plaza of Heroes provides any color mana for any legendary permanents, such as creatures, enchantments, and planeswalkers. Therefore, it can be used to cast — not only any of the legendary creatures in the deck — but also Tinybones Joins Up and Liliana of the Veil (in the sideboard). And once you've got a legendary permanent in play, Plaza can be tapped for any of its colors. Last but not least, it can be used to protect a legendary creature (but not any other permanent type).

Mana Base

Design

The deck's primary color is black. The mana base supports cards with 2 black mana symbols in their mana cost from mana value 3 and up with at least an 87.7 % chance when played on the curve, as long as they are legendary. Non-legendary black cards with 1 black mana symbol in their mana cost are supported from mana value 1 and up with an 90.1 % chance.

The deck's secondary color is red. The mana base supports cards with 1 red mana symbol in their mana cost from mana value 1 and up with at least an 86.1 % chance when played on the curve (no need them to be legendary).

The deck's tertiary color is blue. The mana base supports cards with 1 blue mana symbol in their mana cost from mana value 2 and up with at least an 87.7 % chance when played on the curve, as long as they are legendary.

Overview

• Total of 25 lands

Mana Color Produced

• 16 lands produce black mana
• 14 lands produce red mana
• 9 lands produce blue mana
• 4 lands produce any color mana for legendary permanents

Land Types

• 8 dual-color fast lands
• 6 dual-color pain lands
• 4 dual-color tapped man-lands
• 4 special lands
• 3 basic lands

Starting Hand Probabilities

Land Count

Bo3 = No Hand Smoothing

• At least two lands: 87.8 %
• At least three lands: 62.5 %
• At least four lands: 31.4 %

Probabilities on Later Turns

Probabilities are on the play / on the draw.

Land Count

With Any Starting Hand

• At least 3 lands on turn 3: 81.9 % / 88.1 %
• At least 4 lands on turn 4: 67.5 % / 76.6 %
• At least 5 lands on turn 5: 51.7 % / 62.4 %

Change Log

18–19 Sep 2024

Main Deck

Spells

• Removed 2 Laughing Jasper Flint
• Added 4th Marchesa, Dealer of Death, 2nd Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead

Lands

• Removed 2 Fabled Passage and 2 basic lands
• Added 4th Plaza of Heroes and 3 Restless Vents