RATS! by Wodnik

Format: Commander

Commander: Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm is a monoblack Rat-tribal aggro deck that floods the board with twenty-three Rat Colonies, then uses Ashcoat's attack trigger to turn raw rat count into lethal combat stats. The primary plan is simple: cast many Rats, add tribal anthems, and swing. Secondary paths lean on Marrow-Gnawer to multiply the swarm, Plague of Vermin to buy a huge mass of tokens, and Patriarch's Bidding or Bloodline Bidding to rebuild after a wipe. Ashcoat is both the finisher and the recursion engine. Karumonix and Marrow-Gnawer act as hidden lieutenants, finding and duplicating Rats. No deterministic combo exists; the deck wins by incremental board growth.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Akroma's Memorial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1 Barren Moor
• 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bloodline Pretender
• 1 Buried Ruin
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Cover of Darkness
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Door of Destinies
• 1 Eldrazi Monument
• 1 Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Hero's Downfall
• 1 Icon of Ancestry
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Infectious Inquiry
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mudflat Village
• 1 Murder
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Oversold Cemetery
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Patriarch's Bidding
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 1 Plague of Vermin
• 23 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Ratcatcher
• 1 Read the Bones
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 23 Swamp
• 1 Swarmyard
• 1 Sword of the Squeak
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Vanquisher's Banner
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Whip of Erebos
• 1 White Lotus Tile
• 1 Witch's Cottage