Oh Rats, it's Bats by BaronAce

Format: Commander

Commander: Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos tribal swarm and aristocrats strategy led by Totentanz, Swarm Piper. The game plan revolves around generating a massive board of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens through nontoken creature deaths and dedicated token generators like Piper of the Swarm, Ogre Slumlord, and Chittering Witch. Once a wide board is established, the deck converts token quantity into lethal damage using enter-the-battlefield and death triggers from cards like Impact Tremors, Witty Roastmaster, and Mirkwood Bats, or through wide combat overruns powered by Shared Animosity, Ogre Chitterlord, and Gnawing Crescendo. Operating on a budget-friendly and casual curve, the deck trades off explosive fast mana and tutors for synergistic redundancy. While it lacks instant-speed interaction and sweep protection, it can overwhelm unprepared tables through relentless token generation and direct life drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar's Reap
• 1 Arnyn, Deathbloom Botanist
• 1 Asphyxiate
• 1 Assassinate
• 1 Bartizan Bats
• 1 Bat Whisperer
• 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• 1 Blighted Bat
• 1 Blood Reckoning
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Bloodhunter Bat
• 1 Burglar Rat
• 1 Canyon Slough
• 1 Castle Embereth
• 1 Cavalcade of Calamity
• 1 Charging Hooligan
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 Courier Bat
• 1 Deep-Cavern Bat
• 1 Desecrated Tomb
• 1 Drainpipe Vermin
• 1 Duress
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1 Foundry Screecher
• 1 Geothermal Bog
• 1 Ghastly Gloomhunter
• 1 Gnawing Crescendo
• 1 Gruesome Fate
• 1 Gutter Skulk
• 1 Harried Spearguard
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Kindred Dominance
• 1 Mad Ratter
• 1 Malakir Familiar
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 12 Mountain
• 1 Mudflat Village
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Ogre Chitterlord
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Ominous Asylum
• 1 Outnumber
• 1 Pack Rat
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 1 Psychic Whorl
• 1 Raid Bombardment
• 1 Rakdos Carnarium
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat Out
• 1 Ratcatcher Trainee // Pest Problem
• 1 Ravenous Rats
• 1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller
• 1 Restless Vents
• 1 Revenge of the Rats
• 1 Roar of Resistance
• 1 Ruin Rat
• 1 Septic Rats
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shared Animosity
• 1 Skeletal Vampire
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Song of Totentanz
• 1 Stronghold Rats
• 1 Sulfurous Mire
• 12 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tangled Colony
• 1 Tears of Valakut
• 1 Thriving Rats
• 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
• 1 Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail
• 1 Twisted Sewer-Witch
• 1 Typhoid Rats
• 1 Warehouse Tabby
• 1 Witty Roastmaster