Rat King $ by Jaybone

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Rat King, Verminister is the engine of a compact mono-black Rat swarm. The plan is to flood the board with cheap Rat Colony and token producers, use sacrifice outlets and draw effects to fill the graveyard, then use the commander's tap ability to mass-return every copy of a Rat card, usually Rat Colony. Rat King, Pale Piper is the hidden commander in the 99: it replaces lost nontoken creatures with Rat tokens and turns token sacrifices into cards. Secondary paths include Marrow-Gnawer token multiplication, Revenge of the Rats, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm pump/recursion, and Ayara or Bontu's Monument draining life. The deck is fastest when it reaches a critical mass of six or more attackers; it lacks a compact infinite finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Bontu's Monument
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Stronghold
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Cover of Darkness
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Echoing Return
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Grave Pact
• 1 Herald's Horn
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Pack Rat
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 25 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Revenge of the Rats
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Species Specialist
• 25 Swamp
• 1 Swarmyard
• 1 Swarmyard Massacre
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Valley Rotcaller
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Withering Torment