Fear the Rat by Paz032

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered mono-black aristocrats and combo engine built around Marrow-Gnawer. It leverages premier fast mana and efficient black tutors to accelerate past ordinary curve constraints, aiming to assemble an infinite token and death trigger loop using Thornbite Staff. By equipping the Staff to Marrow-Gnawer with at least one other Rat in play, the deck creates unbounded 1/1 Rat tokens and triggers death effects infinitely, winning on the spot when paired with drain pieces like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Bastion of Remembrance. Dense card-draw engines like Skullclamp and Necropotence ensure consistent hand refill, while Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing creature boards completely clear. If the primary commander line is disrupted, robust low-cost reanimation packages and powerful alternative finishers like Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Bolas's Citadel, and Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm provide resilient backup routes to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Ratcatcher
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Stronghold Rats
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm of Rats
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat