rato by laipipi

Format: Commander

Commander: Marrow-Gnawer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Marrow-Gnawer heads a relentless mono-black typal swarm deck built to double Rat counts exponentially and swing for unblockable lethal damage thanks to innate fear. Low-cost rodents flood the board early, allowing Marrow-Gnawer to immediately produce overwhelming numbers. The deck wins primary games by swarming with evasive tokens buffed by anthem artifacts, applying toxic via Karumonix, or executing an infinite token combo with Thornbite Staff attached to the commander. Secondary win paths weaponize token generation through drain engines like Mirkwood Bats, Zulaport Cutthroat, and high-synergy finishers like Plague of Vermin.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Big Apple, 3 a.m.
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Rats
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Echoing Return
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foul-Tongue Shriek
  • 1 Gathering Stone
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Icon of Ancestry
  • 1 Karumonix, the Rat King
  • 1 Lord Skitter's Butcher
  • 1 Lord Skitter, Sewer King
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Metallic Mimic
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
  • 1 Nezumi Bone-Reader
  • 1 Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator
  • 1 Nezumi Shortfang // Stabwhisker the Odious
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Pack Rat
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persistent Marshstalker
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Piper of the Swarm
  • 1 Plague of Vermin
  • 1 Rat King, Pale Piper
  • 1 Rat King, Verminister
  • 1 Rat Out
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Revenge of the Rats
  • 1 Rotting Rats
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Stoneforge Masterwork
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Swarm of Rats
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Sword of the Paruns
  • 1 Sword of the Squeak
  • 1 Tangled Colony
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Voracious Vermin
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat