The Plague • (Mono-Black Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Karumonix, the Rat King

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
Other Rats you control have toxic 1.
When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Legendary Creature - Rat Phyrexian

$1.79 $1.15 $0.31

Commander

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War Horn

Attacking creatures you control get +1/+0.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Anthem

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Essence Infusion

Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. It gains lifelink until end of turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.06 $0.15

Counters

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Graf Rats

At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you both own and control this creature and a creature named Midnight Scavengers, exile them, then meld them into Chittering Host.

Creature - Rat

$0.35 $0.22 $0.15

Gutter Skulk

Creature - Rat Zombie

$0.35 $0.08 $0.15

Creature

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Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$0.39 $0.30 $0.15

Drainpipe Vermin

When this creature dies, you may pay

. If you do, target player discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$0.35 $0.33 $0.15

Duress

Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a noncreature, nonland card from it. That player discards that card.

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.11 $0.15

Psychic Whorl

Target opponent discards two cards. Then if you control a Rat, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Ravenous Rats

When this creature enters, target opponent discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$0.59 $0.61 $0.17

Refurbished Familiar

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs

less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Flying
When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card. For each opponent who can't, you draw a card.

Creature Artifact - Rat Zombie

$0.59 $0.38 $0.15

Stronghold Rats

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.

Creature - Rat

$1.29 $0.47 $0.36

Discard

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Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

Creature - Zombie

$2.49 $4.59 $0.98

Valley Rotcaller

Menace
Whenever this creature attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.

Creature - Squirrel Warlock

$3.49 $2.17 $1.09

Drain

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Chittering Skitterling

Corrupted — Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters and only once each turn.

Creature - Rat Phyrexian

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Erebos, God of the Dead

Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each

in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.

, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Legendary Creature Enchantment - God

$12.99 $10.86 $8.07

Feed the Infection

You draw three cards and you lose 3 life.
Corrupted — Each opponent who has three or more poison counters loses 3 life.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Tribute to Horobi

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter.)
I, II — Each opponent creates a 1/1 black Rat Rogue creature token.
III — Exile this Saga, then return it to the battlefield transformed under your control.

Enchantment - Saga

Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail (neo) 124

$0.49 $0.26 $0.15

Draw

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Alien Symbiosis

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +1/+1, has menace, and is a Symbiote in addition to its other types.
You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a card in addition to paying its other costs.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.23 $0.15

Hideous Visage

Creatures you control gain intimidate until end of turn. (Each of those creatures can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.07 $0.15

Thieves' Tools

When this Equipment enters, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Equipped creature can't be blocked as long as its power is 3 or less.
Equip

(

: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact - Equipment

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Evasion

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Ichor Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
When this creature enters, each player gets a poison counter.

Creature - Rat Phyrexian

$3.99 $3.91 $2.39

Septic Rats

Infect (This creature deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters and to players in the form of poison counters.)
Whenever this creature attacks, if defending player is poisoned, it gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Creature - Rat Phyrexian

$1.29 $0.52 $0.15

Infect

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Requiting Hex

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.)
Destroy target creature with mana value 2 or less. If this spell's additional cost was paid, you gain 2 life.

Instant

$1.99 $0.62 $0.15

Instant

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Swamp

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: Add

Basic Land - Swamp

$0.49 $0.31 $0.15

Swarmyard

: Add

: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land

$5.99 $5.63 $5.05

Land

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Alchemist's Gift

Target creature gets +1/+1 and gains your choice of deathtouch or lifelink until end of turn. (Any amount of damage a creature with deathtouch deals to a creature is enough to destroy it. Damage dealt by a creature with lifelink also causes its controller to gain that much life.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Staff of the Death Magus

Whenever you cast a black spell or a Swamp you control enters, you gain 1 life.

Artifact

$0.39 $0.33 $0.15

Lifegain

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Daggerfang Duo

Deathtouch
When this creature enters, you may mill two cards. (You may put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature - Rat Squirrel

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Mill

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Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.)
When this creature dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature - Rat Phyrexian

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Vat Emergence

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Whisper of the Dross

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant

$0.79 $0.35 $0.15

Proliferate

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Armor of Shadows

Until end of turn, target creature gets +1/+0 and gains indestructible. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant

$0.39 $0.34 $0.15

Maximum Overdrive

Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. It gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn.

Instant

$0.35 $0.16 $0.15

Protection

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Relentless Rats

This creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield named Relentless Rats.
A deck can have any number of cards named Relentless Rats.

Creature - Rat

$4.49 $4.53 $2.36

Pump

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.67 $0.43

Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Legendary Artifact

$3.99 $2.93 $2.70

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $1.84 $1.30

Undercity Dire Rat

Rat Tail — When this creature dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature - Rat

$0.35 $0.19 $0.15

Ramp

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Disentomb

Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery

$0.69 $0.43 $0.28

Graveshifter

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)
When this creature enters, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature - Shapeshifter

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Persistent Marshstalker

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
Threshold — Whenever you attack with one or more Rats, if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, you may pay

. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature - Rat Berserker

$0.35 $0.29 $0.15

Vat of Rebirth

Whenever another artifact or creature you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put an oil counter on this artifact.

, Remove four oil counters from this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only as a sorcery.

Artifact

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink.

: Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it anywhere else. Activate only as a sorcery.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$13.99 $9.54 $9.35

Zombify

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Recursion

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Consumed by Greed

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Target opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures they control. If the gift was promised, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Crypt Rats

: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature - Rat

$1.79 $0.78 $0.62

Doom Blade

Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant

$0.35 $0.32 $0.15

Drown in Ichor

Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery

$1.79 $0.80 $0.40

Engine Rat

Deathtouch

: Each opponent loses 2 life.

Creature - Rat Zombie

$0.39 $0.25 $0.15

Mutilate

All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Sorcery

$0.79 $0.66 $0.17

Shelob's Ambush

Target creature gets +1/+2 and gains deathtouch until end of turn. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Instant

$0.35 $0.18 $0.15

Spread the Sickness

Destroy target creature, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.25 $0.15

Thornplate Intimidator

Offspring

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
When this creature enters, target opponent loses 3 life unless they sacrifice a nonland permanent of their choice or discard a card.

Creature - Rat Rogue

$0.35 $0.14 $0.15

Toxin Analysis

Target creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "

, Sacrifice this token: Draw a card.")

Instant

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Tragic Slip

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Morbid — That creature gets -13/-13 until end of turn instead if a creature died this turn.

Instant

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Tragic Trajectory

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Void — That creature gets -10/-10 until end of turn instead if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature - Rat

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Viper's Kiss

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -1/-1, and its activated abilities can't be activated.

Enchantment - Aura

$0.35 $0.10 $0.15

Vraska's Fall

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.

Instant

$0.79 $0.38 $0.15

Wick's Patrol

When this creature enters, mill three cards. When you do, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the greatest mana value among cards in your graveyard.

Creature - Rat Warlock

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Removal

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Bloodline Bidding

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose a creature type. Return all creature cards of the chosen type from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery

$2.99 $2.37 $1.30

Sorcery

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Lord Skitter's Butcher

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
• You may sacrifice another creature. If you do, scry 2, then draw a card.
• Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.

Creature - Rat Peasant

$0.59 $0.30 $0.15

Nezumi Linkbreaker

When this creature dies, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with "

: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."

Creature - Rat Warlock

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.
Rats you control have deathtouch.

Creature - Rogue Ogre

$0.79 $0.37 $0.15

Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace.

: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token.

, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Creature - Human Warlock

$1.79 $2.26 $0.83

Tangled Colony

This creature can't block.
When this creature dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Creature - Rat

$1.29 $0.82 $0.29

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $107.66

Color Cost & Production

Avg Mana Value: 2.58Total Mana Value: 170.00

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Avg Mana Value: 2.58Total Mana Value: 170.00

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