John Wick - Grixis Rat by LukeHillenbrand

Format: Commander

Commander: Wick, the Whorled Mind

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Grixis Rat tribal strategy led by Wick, the Whorled Mind. The game plan revolves around generating a swarm of Rats to rapidly inflate a Snail token with +1/+1 counters, creating dual angles of attack. The deck can pivot between flinging a massive Snail for direct burn and massive card draw via Wick, and overrunning the table through go-wide combat augmented by Shared Animosity, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, and Marrow-Gnawer. Ancillary damage engines like Impact Tremors, Agate Instigator, and Ayara, First of Locthwain provide steady table-wide life loss as tokens enter. Supported by efficient Grixis spot removal, asymmetric sweepers like Swarmyard Massacre, and potent card advantage engines such as Skullclamp and Kindred Discovery, the deck maintains a steady tempo into the mid-game. While reliant on maintaining a creature board, instant-speed sacrifice outlets and graveyard recursion ensure high resilience against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Agate Instigator
• 1 Amoeboid Changeling
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodline Pretender
• 1 Chittering Witch
• 1 City on Fire
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Crypt Rats
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 3 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lilypad Village
• 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
• 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mad Ratter
• 1 Marrow-Gnawer
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 5 Mountain
• 1 Mudflat Village
• 1 Ogre Chitterlord
• 1 Ogre Slumlord
• 1 Pack Rat
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Persistent Marshstalker
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Piper of the Swarm
• 1 Plague of Vermin
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
• 1 Rat King, Verminister
• 1 Redcap Gutter-Dweller
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Shared Animosity
• 1 Shore Up
• 1 Shoreline Looter
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Song of Totentanz
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Swarmyard
• 1 Swarmyard Massacre
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tangled Colony
• 1 Taurean Mauler
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Totentanz, Swarm Piper
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Valley Rotcaller
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Voracious Vermin
• 1 Vren, the Relentless
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wick, the Whorled Mind
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Xander's Lounge