RATS by fedoratrader

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is built around Rat King, Verminister and 31 copies of Rat Colony. The primary game plan curves out early Rats, converts spare bodies into card advantage through a dense suite of cheap sacrifice spells, and tutors for mass multipliers. The deck reaches a critical state on Turn 5 with Thrumming Stone, which ripples through the library to deploy dozens of Rats in a single turn, or with anthem engines like Marrow-Gnawer and Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm. Once the swarm is established, it attacks for lethal combat damage or drains opponents via Ayara, First of Locthwain and Valley Rotcaller. While highly resilient against targeted removal due to mass name-based recursion like Echoing Return, the strategy is vulnerable to board sweepers and lacks instant-speed interactive disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar's Reap
• 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Bontu's Monument
• 1 Brainspoil
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Costly Plunder
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Echoing Return
• 1 Eldrazi Monument
• 1 Eviscerator's Insight
• 1 Fanatical Offering
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Mudflat Village
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Profane Tutor
• 31 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Reckoner's Bargain
• 1 Secret Salvage
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 28 Swamp
• 1 Swarmyard
• 1 Swarmyard Massacre
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Valley Rotcaller
• 1 Village Rites