Rats by Pengininator

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This mono-black aggro-combo deck leverages 25 copies of Rat Colony to overwhelm opponents with aggressive combat and explosive mass deployment. Rat King, Verminister provides recurring token production and an activated ability to resurrect every copy of Rat Colony from the graveyard simultaneously. The primary win condition revolves around casting Thrumming Stone to ripple out every Rat Colony in the library, swarming the table for lethal attacks or draining the table with Skemfar Shadowsage and Valley Rotcaller. Alternatively, equipping Thornbite Staff to Marrow-Gnawer generates infinite Rat tokens for an immediate game-ending board state.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aether Vial
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Echoing Return
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Infernal Tutor
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 25 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Sceptre of Eternal Glory
  • 1 Skemfar Shadowsage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thrumming Stone
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Witch's Cottage