Rats! by Demorguer

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Rat tribal aggro strategy centered on Marrow-Gnawer and a critical mass of 25 Rat Colony creatures. Early turns focus on establishing multiple Rat Colony threats that naturally buff one another. Once Marrow-Gnawer enters on Turn 5, it grants the entire pack fear and doubles the Rat count each turn. This creates an exponential combat clock capable of eliminating the table by Turn 8. The deck features extreme functional redundancy in its creature base, ensuring consistent opening hands and a viable beatdown backup plan even without the commander. Its primary limitations are a lack of tutors, low interaction against noncreature permanents, and high vulnerability to mass removal spells that wipe out 1-toughness creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar of the Brood
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Attrition
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Bad Moon
• 1 Blood Pet
• 1 Bog Rats
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bontu's Monument
• 1 Bubbling Muck
• 1 Burglar Rat
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Stronghold
• 1 Carrion Rats
• 1 Coat of Arms
• 1 Crypt Rats
• 1 Dark Prophecy
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Drainpipe Vermin
• 1 Duress
• 1 Eldrazi Monument
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1 Gnat Miser
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Heraldic Banner
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Malicious Affliction
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1 Nyx Lotus
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Pestilence Rats
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 25 Rat Colony
• 1 Rats of Rath
• 1 Ravenous Rats
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Sign in Blood
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Songs of the Damned
• 26 Swamp
• 1 Swarmyard
• 1 Syphon Mind
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Typhoid Rats
• 1 Village Rites