Rat Control by MidwestVampire

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and tribal engine commanded by Lord Skitter, Sewer King. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost sacrifice outlets and aristocrat payoffs before casting Lord Skitter on Turn 3 or 4. At the beginning of each combat on your turn, Lord Skitter produces a 1/1 black Rat token that provides continuous fodder for draw engines like Skullclamp and Ayara, First of Locthwain. As the Rat count accumulates, the deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 6 by resolving high-impact pieces like Marrow-Gnawer, Drivnod, Carnage Dominus, Grave Pact, or Massacre Wurm. Opponents are pressured from two angles: evasive combat damage backed by fear or menace, and asymmetric life drain from mass sacrifice spells such as Plumb the Forbidden. While vulnerable to exile board wipes and lacking artifact removal, the deck maintains steady attrition, strong graveyard denial, and high functional redundancy across its creature core.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Costly Plunder
  • 1 Crawlspace
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Engine Rat
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Ghoulcaller's Chant
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Infernal Darkness
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Rug of Smothering
  • 1 Ruin Rat
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soot Imp
  • 31 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tormod's Crypt
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voracious Vermin
  • 1 Withering Torment