Anowon, the Ruin Thief
Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue
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.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Zendikar Rising Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #8961
Anowon, the Ruin Thief turns every unblocked Rogue into a mill trigger and draws you a card whenever an opponent mills a nonland — it generates card advantage on its own, on top of a tribal clock. The cost is a four-mana investment into a 2/3 that dies to any removal, so the engine only fires if you protect it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Sygg, River Cutthroat draws cards whenever an opponent loses 3 or more life in a turn, which Anowon, the Ruin Thief's evasive Rogue triggers produce almost every combat — the two together generate consistent card advantage without any additional pieces.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Anowon, the Ruin Thief actually lives — either at the helm of a Dimir Rogues mill deck or as a role-player in any blue-black build that wants tribal density and card advantage. The mill trigger hits all opponents simultaneously, which scales dramatically in multiplayer and makes it considerably stronger in the 4-player format than any 1v1 context. Legacy and Vintage are legal on paper, but four mana for a creature this fragile has no competitive place in either format. Oathbreaker is the one fringe venue worth mentioning — if you're building around a blue-black planeswalker and want a value engine in the signature-spell slot, Anowon fits, though it's rarely the optimal pick there.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Current pricing data isn't available for Anowon, the Ruin Thief, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number. It was printed as a Commander precon face card, which historically keeps prices modest — expect it to sit in budget territory unless demand shifts.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.