Rats by Tyhoon

Format: Commander

Commander: Madame Null, Power Broker

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aggressive swarm strategy commanded by Madame Null, Power Broker. The core engine relies on 17 copies of Rat Colony, which naturally scale in power as your board expands. Madame Null capitalizes on this growth by converting your life total into +1/+1 counters whenever a Rat enters, doubling its initial combat presence. To support this life expenditure, the deck incorporates key lifelink tools like Shadowspear, Basilisk Collar, and Whip of Erebos. The game plan establishes early mana development, curves into massive Rat attackers by Turn 4, and threatens lethal combat steps on Turn 5. If opponents wipe the board, a dense suite of mass recursion cards—including Patriarch's Bidding, Living Death, and Echoing Return—swiftly rebuilds the entire swarm. While the deck lacks stack interaction and stax pieces, its explosive combat scaling, high threat redundancy, and resilient graveyard recovery make it a formidable combat strategy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cast Down
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Commander's Plate
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Debt to the Kami
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Echoing Return
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foot Chopper
  • 1 Forever Young
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravepurge
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hidden Hideout
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Living End
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Loxodon Warhammer
  • 1 Madame Null, Power Broker
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Pharika's Libation
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Poet's Quill
  • 17 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shredder's Technique
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Terror
  • 1 Tocasia's Dig Site
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Whip of Erebos