Rats 2.0 by user7995202

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This mono-black deck leverages 20 copies of Rat Colony alongside Marrow-Gnawer to generate overwhelming tribal pressure. The primary strategy focuses on deploying low-cost Rats on curve, then resolving Marrow-Gnawer to exponentially multiply the swarm while granting universal fear evasion. Thrumming Stone acts as an explosive engine piece, rippling through the library to cast a dozen or more Rat Colonies in a single turn. The deck also features high-synergy backup lines including aristocrat drain outlets (Bastion of Remembrance, The Meathook Massacre, Mirkwood Bats), the infinite token and untap combo of Marrow-Gnawer and Thornbite Staff, and the classic Exquisite Blood plus Sanguine Bond win condition. While vulnerable to early sweepers and lacking stack interaction, the deck exhibits strong redundancy and swift recovery via mass reanimation like Haunting Voyage and Rat King, Verminister.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Finale of Eternity
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 1 Insidious Dreams
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Blessing
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 20 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Ratcatcher
  • 1 Revenge of the Rats
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 22 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tangled Colony
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Thrumming Stone
  • 1 Twisted Sewer-Witch
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Withering Torment