The Rad Rat Pack by sancto

Format: Commander

Commander: Splinter, Radical Rat

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Esper Ninja tribal deck helmed by Splinter, Radical Rat, built to maximize the triggered abilities of Ninja creatures. The primary game plan is to deploy cheap, unblockable creatures (Invisible Stalker, Slither Blade, Changeling Outcast) and use Ninjutsu to repeatedly bring in high-value Ninjas like Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow, Ingenious Infiltrator, and Fallen Shinobi. Splinter doubles every Ninja triggered ability, turning each combat step into a torrent of card draw, life loss, treasure, and hand disruption. The deck wins through incremental combat damage, Yuriko's life-loss ability, and the sheer card advantage generated by double triggers. There are no infinite combos; the path to victory is a sustained, resilient value engine that overwhelms opponents with tempo and inevitability.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Adaptation
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Austere Command
• 1 Azure Beastbinder
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Biting-Palm Ninja
• 1 Caves of Koilos
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Coastal Piracy
• 1 Combat Research
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Conspiracy
• 1 Continue?
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Leo & Shredder
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dokuchi Silencer
• 1 Drift of Phantasms
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Echoing Truth
• 1 Elektra, Daughter of the Hand
• 1 Erode
• 1 Fallen Shinobi
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Get Lost
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Gossip's Talent
• 1 Gudul Lurker
• 1 Ingenious Infiltrator
• 1 Inkshield
• 1 Invisible Stalker
• 11 Island
• 1 Kaito Shizuki
• 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
• 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
• 1 Mistblade Shinobi
• 1 Moon-Circuit Hacker
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1 Network Disruptor
• 1 Ninja Teen
• 1 Ninja of the Deep Hours
• 1 Ninja's Blades
• 1 Ornithopter
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Port Town
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Prosperous Thief
• 1 Reconnaissance Mission
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Satoru, the Infiltrator
• 1 Shattered Sanctum
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shredder's Technique
• 1 Silent-Blade Oni
• 1 Silver-Fur Master
• 1 Slither Blade
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Splinter, Radical Rat
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Taeko, the Patient Avalanche
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Thousand-Faced Shadow
• 1 Tormented Soul
• 1 Triton Shorestalker
• 1 Turncoat Kunoichi
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow