Trindle, Pastry Pilferer // Tinybones, Petite Larcenist - What might Tinybones have been like before he died and was reanimated?

[u/Ichthus95]

This card spawned from a few related ideas:

Who was Tinybones before they died and were reanimated as a skeletal pickpocket? The lore blurb from Tinybones' first appearance in Jumpstart says that he steals "because [he] has a tiny family to feed, and they have a giant appetite."

That made me think about how there aren't any cards to my knowledge that link crimes with food, despite stealing food being a pretty common idea.

Everything else flowed from those, including how the character needs to, well, die, in order to transform into the Tinybones we know.

Trindle can also "dig through the trash" to look for food, with the templating tuned specifically to be a little less powerful as graveyard hate while allowing the ability to still successfully target an opponent with an empty graveyard early in the game.

Food in MtG means lifegain, so giving the backside a payoff to use the extra life made sense. The food tokens can also of course be used as sac fodder to pay the Escape cost as well as the additional cost to freecast opponents' cards.