Rat King by Bransen101

Format: Commander

Commander: Rat King, Verminister

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Rat Colony swarm deck built around Rat King, Verminister. The game plan is to flood the battlefield with 30 copies of Rat Colony, multiply the board with Pack Rat, Piper of the Swarm, and Ogre Slumlord, and then close the game with a critical mass of unblockable, anthem-boosted rat combat damage. The commander acts as a recursion and token engine: permanents leaving your control create rat tokens, and its activated ability sacrifices three rats to return every copy of a creature card from the graveyard - usually a full squad of Rat Colony after a board wipe. Secondary lines include the Thrumming Stone ripple chain, a small toxic/infect package with Karumonix, the Rat King and Septic Rats, and a situational extra turn in Temporal Extortion. The deck is low to the ground but extremely thin on mana sources and tutors.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aetheric Amplifier
• 1 Anchovy & Banana Pizza
• 1 Arcade Cabinet
• 1 Armor of Shadows
• 1 Bad Moon
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blightbelly Rat
• 1 Bloodline Bidding
• 1 Burglar Rat
• 1 Cost of Brilliance
• 1 Crashing Drawbridge
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Dread Charge
• 1 Earsplitting Rats
• 1 End of the Hunt
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Force of Despair
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Masterful Flourish
• 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Oppression
• 1 Persistent Marshstalker
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 1 Polluted Bonds
• 1 Rancid Rats
• 30 Rat Colony
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Rat Out
• 1 Rats of Rath
• 1 Revenge of the Rats
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Rodents of Unusual Size
• 1 Septic Rats
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stronghold Rats
• 24 Swamp
• 1 Swarm of Rats
• 1 Temporal Extortion
• 1 Thrumming Stone
• 1 Typhoid Rats
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Wander Off
• 1 Wave of Rats