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Rat Colony
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $504.24
Salt Sum: 37.14
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Commander

Quantity: 1Price: $34.99
Marrow-Gnawer

All Rats have fear. {T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.

Creature
Marrow-Gnawer (plst) CHK-124
1

Card Advantage

Quantity: 12Price: $105.18
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
1
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
1
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
1
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
1
Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Diabolic Intent (bro) 89
1
Herald's Horn

As Herald's Horn enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (clb) 862
1
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
1
Ratcatcher

Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.) At the beginning of your upkeep, you may search your library for a Rat card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Ratcatcher (a25) 103
1
Secret Salvage

Exile target nonland card from your graveyard. Search your library for any number of cards with the same name as that card, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Secret Salvage (aer) 71
1
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (clb) 870
1
Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters the battlefield, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. Whenever you cast a creature spell of the chosen type, draw a card.

Artifact
Vanquisher's Banner (xln) 251
1
Village Rites

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Village Rites (khm) 117
1

Finishers

Quantity: 6Price: $64.24
Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain or another black creature enters the battlefield under your control, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
1
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 the battlefield, 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.

Creature
Karumonix, the Rat King (one) 98
1
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
1
Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Sorcery
Plague of Vermin (shm) 73
1
Thornbite Staff

Equipped creature has "{2}, {T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target" and "Whenever a creature dies, untap this creature." Whenever a Shaman creature enters the battlefield, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it. Equip {4}

Artifact Tribal
Thornbite Staff (mor) 145
1
Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Artifact
Thrumming Stone (2x2) 315
1

Graveyard Recursion

Quantity: 7Price: $42.19
Echoing Return

Return target creature card and all other cards with the same name as that card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Echoing Return (mh2) 83
1
Haunting Voyage

Choose a creature type. Return up to two creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield. If this spell was foretold, return all creature cards of that type from your graveyard to the battlefield instead. Foretell {5}{B}{B} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Sorcery
Haunting Voyage (khm) 98
1
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
1
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
1
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
1
Unearth

Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Sorcery
Unearth (a25) 113
1
Virtue of Persistence

Enchantment
Virtue of Persistence // Locthwain Scorn (woe) 115
1

Land

Quantity: 31Price: $46.13
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
1
Cabal Stronghold

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
1
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (rtr) 261
29

Ramp

Quantity: 4Price: $15.06
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
1
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (ice) 120
1
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
1
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (brc) 160
1

Rat Colony

Quantity: 23Price: $126.27
Rat Colony

Rat Colony gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

Creature
Rat Colony (dom) 101
23

Removal

Quantity: 6Price: $12.26
Bone Shards

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or discard a card. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Bone Shards (mh2) 76
1
Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Crippling Fear (clb) 745
1
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (cmm) 159
1
Flay Essence

Exile target creature or planeswalker. You gain life equal to the number of counters on it.

Sorcery
Flay Essence (mh2) 85
1
In Garruk's Wake

Destroy all creatures you don't control and all planeswalkers you don't control.

Sorcery
In Garruk's Wake (znc) 45
1
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (cmm) 191
1

Typal Synergy

Quantity: 6Price: $36.10
Coat of Arms

Each creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature on the battlefield that shares at least one creature type with it. (For example, if two Goblin Warriors and a Goblin Shaman are on the battlefield, each gets +2/+2.)

Artifact
Coat of Arms (h09) 29
1
Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat enters the battlefield under your control, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
1
Pack Rat

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control. {2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of Pack Rat.

Creature
Pack Rat (rtr) 73
1
Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace. {1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Creature
Piper of the Swarm (afc) 106
1
Stoneforge Masterwork

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control that shares a creature type with it. Equip {2}

Artifact
Stoneforge Masterwork (ogw) 166
1
Twisted Sewer-Witch

When Twisted Sewer-Witch enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." Then for each Rat you control, create a Wicked Role token attached to that Rat. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Creature
Twisted Sewer-Witch (woe) 114
1

Utility Lands

Quantity: 4Price: $21.82
Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield tapped. When Bojuka Bog enters the battlefield, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (brc) 176
1
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters the battlefield tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}{B}, {T}: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.

Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
1
Haunted Fengraf

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Sacrifice Haunted Fengraf: Return a creature card at random from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Haunted Fengraf (c18) 254
1
Swarmyard

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

Land
Swarmyard (tsr) 284
1

Maybeboard

Quantity: 8Price: $100.30
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Whenever Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm attacks or blocks, other Rats you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Rats you control. At the beginning of your end step, you may mill four cards. If you do, return up to two Rat creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm (j22) 19
1
Corrupt

Corrupt deals damage to any target equal to the number of Swamps you control. You gain life equal to the damage dealt this way.

Sorcery
Corrupt (bro) 88
1
Defile

Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.

Instant
Defile (mh1) 86
1
Pestilence Rats

Pestilence Rats's power is equal to the number of other Rats on the battlefield. (For example, as long as there are two other Rats on the battlefield, Pestilence Rats's power and toughness are 2/3.)

Creature
Pestilence Rats (ice) 157
1
Trailblazer's Boots

Equipped creature has nonbasic landwalk. (It can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a nonbasic land.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Trailblazer's Boots (zen) 208
1
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
1
Voracious Vermin

When Voracious Vermin enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Voracious Vermin.

Creature
Voracious Vermin (woe) 116
1
Witch's Cottage

({T}: Add {B}.) Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps. When Witch's Cottage enters the battlefield untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249
1

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"Consistency is the name of the game. We're looking for just enough black mana to start getting Rat Colonies onto the field ahead of our commander.\n\nThere are a few win cons available here. The simplest one is just multiplying your rat tokens until you have big enough Rat Colonies to knock out everyone else at the table. You can go wide with the tokens and go tall with the Colonies at the same time.\n\nAlternate win cons include the Thornbite Staff + Marrow-Gnawer infinite rat token combo, Thrumming Stone to empty a quarter of your deck onto the battlefield, and even abusing the ETB effect of Twisted Sewer-Witch to farm Wicked Role tokens (sac effects into graveyard recursion). If all else fails, Karumonix has poison support for a cheesy wide kill, and Ayara/Mirkwood Bats can bleed everyone out while your rat engine spins.\n\nIf in doubt while tutoring, your cards to fish for are Thornbite Staff, Thrumming Stone, and Pack Rat.\n"}]}
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