Rat Ball by TsulKalu

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 16

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Mono-Black Rat Tribal strategy commanded by Marrow-Gnawer. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap Rat creatures in the early turns, casting Marrow-Gnawer on Turn 5, and leveraging its activated ability to double the Rat population every turn cycle while granting the entire swarm fear. Supporting elements include tribal anthems like Hall of Triumph and Icon of Ancestry, aristocrat drain from Bastion of Remembrance and Vengeful Bloodwitch, and selective hand disruption via Burglar Rat and Nezumi Bone-Reader. The deck relies on combat damage to eliminate opponents across multiple combat steps. Its primary limitations stem from a lack of fast mana ramp, zero specific tutors, absent instant-speed interaction against noncreature permanents, and an absence of protection spells to shield Marrow-Gnawer from spot removal and board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Angelheart Vial
  • 1 Arcane Encyclopedia
  • 1 Bankrupt in Blood
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bladebrand
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carnage Altar
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Chorus of Woe
  • 1 Cower in Fear
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Dance of Shadows
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Diseased Vermin
  • 1 Drainpipe Vermin
  • 1 Earsplitting Rats
  • 1 Engine Rat
  • 1 Gix's Command
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Golden Demise
  • 1 Gruesome Realization
  • 1 Hall of Triumph
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hideous Visage
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Insatiable Frugivore
  • 1 Instruments of War
  • 1 Jar of Eyeballs
  • 1 Junkyo Bell
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Mukotai Ambusher
  • 1 Nezumi Bone-Reader
  • 1 Nezumi Informant
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Old Flitterfang
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Ossuary Rats
  • 1 Patron of the Nezumi
  • 1 Persistent Marshstalker
  • 1 Pestilence Rats
  • 1 Polluted Mire
  • 1 Rabid Rats
  • 1 Rancid Rats
  • 1 Rat Out
  • 1 Ravenous Rats
  • 1 Razortooth Rats
  • 1 Revenge of the Rats
  • 1 Ruin Rat
  • 1 Ruthless Radrat
  • 1 Scare Tactics
  • 1 Scrib Nibblers
  • 1 Seeker's Folly
  • 1 Sinuous Vermin
  • 1 Skullsnatcher
  • 1 Sothera, the Supervoid
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Tangled Colony
  • 1 The Mycosynth Gardens
  • 1 Thornplate Intimidator
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Voracious Vermin