Soon, the World Will Belong to Our Rat Brethren by TheRifter

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This mono-black swarm deck leverages thirty copies of Rat Colony alongside Rat King, Verminister to execute an aggressive tribal beatdown strategy. Because each Rat Colony boosts the power of every other Rat, the deck scales its combat power exponentially as the battlefield develops. Commander Rat King, Verminister serves as both an early token generator and an insurance policy against board wipes, tapping and sacrificing three Rats to mass-reanimate every Rat Colony from the graveyard simultaneously. Support cards such as Marrow-Gnawer, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, and Cover of Darkness grant essential evasion like fear and menace while doubling token production. The deck prioritizes rapid curve-out deployment from Turns 2 through 4, presenting lethal combat pressure by Turn 5 and closing the game by Turn 7. However, the plan remains heavily vulnerable to mass removal, damage-based sweepers, and targeted interaction due to a low interaction count and minimal board-wide protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archetype of Finality
• 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1 Bad Moon
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consecrated by Blood
• 1 Cover of Darkness
• 1 Cultist of the Absolute
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Pack Rat
• 1 Persistent Marshstalker
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 30 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Ratcatcher
• 1 Revenge of the Rats
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Species Specialist
• 1 Stonespeaker Crystal
• 40 Swamp
• 1 Swarm of Rats
• 1 Swarmyard Massacre
• 1 Tangled Colony
• 1 Thran Dynamo