Rat King by Jamiro

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Rat Colony tribal deck helmed by Rat King, Verminister, a low-cost commander that generates tokens and provides mass recursion for any card name. The core strategy is to flood the board with dozens of Rat Colony copies, leveraging the extreme redundancy of 37 identical creatures. The deck powers up these hordes with lords like Marrow-Gnawer (fear, token multiplication), Ogre Slumlord (deathtouch, additional rat generation), and Piper of the Swarm (menace, theft). A secondary win path uses death-triggered drain engines - Blood Artist, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Bastion of Remembrance, and Marionette Apprentice - to bleed out opponents while sacrificing rats. Thrumming Stone can chain-cast multiple Rat Colony in a single turn for an explosive swarm. The commander's activated ability brings back every copy of a creature from the graveyard, making the recursion loop extremely resilient. The deck has minimal interaction, no counterspells, and a low land count, making it a slow but persistent value engine that wins through overwhelming combat or incremental life loss.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Coldsteel Heart
• 1 Cut Down
• 1 Darksteel Plate
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Grave Titan
• 1 Heraldic Banner
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mudflat Village
• 1 Murder
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 35 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Skullclamp
• 30 Swamp
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites