Ratz by SkullSketch14

Format: Commander

Commander: Wick, the Whorled Mind

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

Wick, the Whorled Mind commands a Grixis kindred deck that blends low-cost Rat swarms with aristocrats-style burn and card draw. The game plan focuses on deploying cheap Rats to continuously trigger Wick's ability, creating and enlarging a Snail token. Once the Snail reaches substantial power, Wick sacrifices it for three mana to deal direct damage to every opponent and refill your hand. The deck supplements this burn engine with combat evasion from Marrow-Gnawer, high-impact sweepers like Kindred Dominance, and graveyard recursion to rebuild after board wipes. While the deck generates high card volume once established, it relies on a mana base with several taplands and lacks fast noncreature tutors. Protecting Wick and timing Snail detonations in response to opposing removal are essential to maintaining tempo and closing out the game before faster combo or control strategies take over.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aqueous Form
  • 1 Azure Beastbinder
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blightbelly Rat
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodline Pretender
  • 1 Body Double
  • 1 Burglar Rat
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Coiling Rebirth
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Daggerfang Duo
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Ingot
  • 1 Determined Iteration
  • 1 Dimir Cluestone
  • 1 Diresight
  • 1 Disentomb
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dockside Chef
  • 1 Dramatic Accusation
  • 1 Duplicant
  • 1 Fell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fountainport Bell
  • 1 Gem of Becoming
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gnawing Vermin
  • 1 Hex
  • 1 Highland Lake
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Izzet Guildgate
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lightshell Duo
  • 1 Lilypad Village
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marrow-Gnawer
  • 1 Mind Drill Assailant
  • 1 Mindwhisker
  • 1 Mortician Beetle
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mudflat Village
  • 1 Mukotai Ambusher
  • 1 Nezumi Prowler
  • 1 Nightwhorl Hermit
  • 1 Ossuary Rats
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Palace Siege
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persistent Marshstalker
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Prismari Campus
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Rat Colony
  • 1 Rise from the Tides
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Ruin Rat
  • 1 Run Away Together
  • 1 Ruthless Deathfang
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Septic Rats
  • 1 Shadows of the Past
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Soured Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftwater Cliffs
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thornplate Intimidator
  • 1 Thought Shucker
  • 1 Tidecaller Mentor
  • 1 Traveler's Amulet
  • 1 Typhoid Rats
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Wick's Patrol
  • 1 Wick, the Whorled Mind
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Wizard Class