Rats

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This mono-black Rat Colony swarm deck tries to convert an overwhelming number of cheap rat bodies into a single lethal combat step. Rat King, Verminister is both a dependable end-step token maker and a mass-reanimation spell: sacrifice three rats, return every Rat Colony from the graveyard tapped, then untap and swing. Rat King, Pale Piper functions as a hidden engine, making a replacement token whenever a nontoken rat leaves and drawing cards from spare tokens. Karumonix, the Rat King, Thrumming Stone, and Mirror Box form alternate or accelerating lines, while Mirkwood Bats and Blood Artist provide drain backup. The deck has no counterspells, so it relies on redundancy and recursive bursts rather than protecting a fragile threat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar's Reap
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arguel's Blood Fast // Temple of Aclazotz
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Blightbelly Rat
• 1 Blood for Bones
• 1 Bog Rats
• 1 Bone Shards
• 1 Bone Splinters
• 1 Burglar Rat
• 1 Carrion Rats
• 1 Chittering Rats
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Deathmask Nezumi
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Earsplitting Rats
• 1 Engine Rat
• 1 Gathering Stone
• 1 Heraldic Banner
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mirror Box
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 25 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Rat Out
• 1 Revenge of the Rats
• 1 Sol Ring
• 38 Swamp
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail
• 1 Undercity Dire Rat
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Voracious Vermin
• 1 Warehouse Tabby