Vermin Supreme by Illicit0range

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This mono-black deck blends explosive Rat tribal aggression with potent aristocrat drain and a compact infinite combo. Helmed by Marrow-Gnawer, the strategy focuses on deploying low-cost Rats in the opening turns, then casting the commander to exponentially multiply the token army while granting the entire board unblockable evasion through fear. In parallel, drain engines like Ayara, First of Locthwain and Mirkwood Bats turn every token creation and sacrifice into direct damage against the table. The deck packs severe resource-denial tools such as Contamination and Grave Pact that lock opponents out of colored mana and clear opposing creature boards. When ready to close the game, it attacks with an overwhelming evasive swarm on Turn 6-7 or triggers an immediate infinite combo by attaching Thornbite Staff to Marrow-Gnawer. Extensive graveyard recursion ensures the engine rebounds swiftly if interrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Crashing Drawbridge
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gruesome Fate
  • 1 Infernal Darkness
  • 1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nezumi Bone-Reader
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Pestilence Rats
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Prowling Geistcatcher
  • 1 Rat Colony
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Strixhaven Stadium
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Tangled Colony
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Throat Slitter
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller