Go for the Throat

Ayara, First of Locthwain

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

Rat Colony

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

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, you may attach Thornbite Staff to it.
Equip {4}

Nyx Lotus

Nyx Lotus enters tapped.
{T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Liliana of the Dark Realms

+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"

Bojuka Bog

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

Old Flitterfang

Flying
At the beginning of each end step, if a creature died this turn, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
{2}{B}, Sacrifice another creature or artifact: Old Flitterfang gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Westvale Abbey

{T}: Add {C}.
{5}, {T}, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
{5}, {T}, Sacrifice five creatures: Transform Westvale Abbey, then untap it.

Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince

Vanquisher's Banner

As Vanquisher's Banner enters, 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.

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.

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.)

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.)

Akroma's Memorial

Creatures you control have flying, first strike, vigilance, trample, haste, and protection from black and from red.

Defile

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

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.

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.")

Patriar's Seal

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

Echo of Death's Wail

Flying, haste
When Echo of Death's Wail enters, gain control of all Rat tokens.
Whenever Echo of Death's Wail attacks, you may sacrifice another creature. If you do, draw a card.

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.

Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail

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.

Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

Ninjutsu {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Ink-Eyes.

Lord Skitter's Butcher

When Lord Skitter's Butcher enters, choose one —
• Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature 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.

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.
{T}: Add {C}.

Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, 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."

Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}.
{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Rogue's Passage

{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Voracious Vermin

When Voracious Vermin enters, 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.

Ogre Slumlord

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

Patron of the Nezumi

Rat offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Rat and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Rat. Mana cost includes color.)
Whenever a permanent is put into an opponent's graveyard, that player loses 1 life.

Crypt of Agadeem

Crypt of Agadeem enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each black creature card in your graveyard.

Metallic Mimic

As Metallic Mimic enters, choose a creature type.
Metallic Mimic is the chosen type in addition to its other types.
Each other creature you control of the chosen type enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it.

Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped.
When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
{T}: Add {B}.

Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more —
• Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life.
• Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life.
• Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Mirkwood Bats

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

Witch's Cottage

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

Burglar Rat

When Burglar Rat enters, each opponent discards a card.

Sol Ring

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.)

Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Throat Slitter deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Ashnod's Altar

Crypt Rats

{X}: Crypt Rats deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Tangled Colony

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

Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Ruthless Radrat

Squad—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.)
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Gray Merchant of Asphodel

When Gray Merchant of Asphodel enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)

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.

Culling the Weak

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.

Stronghold Rats

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

Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste.
{1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Force of Despair

If it's not your turn, you may exile a black card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Destroy all creatures that entered this turn.

Twisted Sewer-Witch

When Twisted Sewer-Witch enters, 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.)

Dictate of Erebos

Flash
Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent sacrifices a creature.

Species Specialist

As Species Specialist enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.

Skullsnatcher

Ninjutsu {B} ({B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever Skullsnatcher deals combat damage to a player, exile up to two target cards from that player's graveyard.

Typhoid Rats

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

Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace
Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.)
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Swarm of Rats

Swarm of Rats's power is equal to the number of Rats you control.

Village Rites

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

Crashing Drawbridge

Defender
{T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Chittering Witch

When Chittering Witch enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Dark Ritual

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.

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.

Cabal Stronghold

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

Skullclamp

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

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.

Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Crypt Ghast

Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.