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DA RAT SWARM
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $599.84
Salt sum: 42.62
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Commander

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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 (blc) 79

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Draw Spells

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Altar's Reap

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

Instant
Altar's Reap (isd) 86
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 (mb2) 39
Demonic Tutor

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

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Greed

{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.

Enchantment
Greed (mh2) 274
Increasing Ambition

Search your library for a card and put that card into your hand. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, instead search your library for two cards and put those cards into your hand. Then shuffle. Flashback {7}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Increasing Ambition (dka) 69
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
Read the Bones (dsc) 154
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (c14) 268
Syphon Mind

Each other player discards a card. You draw a card for each card discarded this way.

Sorcery
Syphon Mind (scd) 111

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Ninja Rats

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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.

Creature
Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni (blc) 77
Mukotai Ambusher

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Lifelink

Creature Artifact
Mukotai Ambusher (neo) 112
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.

Creature
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion (otc) 143
Nezumi Prowler

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) When Nezumi Prowler enters, target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Nezumi Prowler (neo) 116
Okiba-Gang Shinobi

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 Okiba-Gang Shinobi deals combat damage to a player, that player discards two cards.

Creature
Okiba-Gang Shinobi (bok) 76
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.

Creature
Throat Slitter (plst) BOK-88

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dsc) 92
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on Black Market. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on Black Market.

Enchantment
Black Market (clb) 739
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}.

Creature
Crypt Ghast (gtc) 61
Patchwork Banner

As Patchwork Banner enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Patchwork Banner (blb) 247
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (dsc) 94
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Wayfarer's Bauble: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (m3c) 315

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Tribal Creatures

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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.

Creature
Chittering Witch (eld) 319
Ogre Slumlord

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

Creature
Ogre Slumlord (blc) 186
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 (eld) 392
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
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.)

Creature
Twisted Sewer-Witch (woe) 114

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Artifact

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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 (akh) 225
Sting, the Glinting Dagger

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has haste. At the beginning of each combat, untap equipped creature. Equipped creature has first strike as long as it's blocking or blocked by a Goblin or Orc. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sting, the Glinting Dagger (ltr) 250
Whip of Erebos

Creatures you control have lifelink. {2}{B}{B}, {T}: 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.

Artifact Enchantment
Whip of Erebos (dsc) 159

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Instant

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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 (plst) AFR-94

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Payoff

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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.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (mul) 13
Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (j22) 117
Enslave

Enchant creature You control enchanted creature. At the beginning of your upkeep, enchanted creature deals 1 damage to its owner.

Enchantment
Enslave (tsr) 113
Funeral Room

Enchantment
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall (pdsk) 100s
Nighthowler

Bestow {2}{B}{B} (If you cast this card for its bestow cost, it's an Aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it's not attached to a creature.) Nighthowler and enchanted creature each get +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in all graveyards.

Creature Enchantment
Nighthowler (znc) 49

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Rats

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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
Blightbelly Rat

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

Creature
Blightbelly Rat (one) 289
Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (rvr) 69
Crypt Rats

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

Creature
Crypt Rats (mh1) 84
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.

Creature
Karumonix, the Rat King (one) 98
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."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Nezumi Graverobber

Creature
Nezumi Graverobber // Nighteyes the Desecrator (cmd) 92
Nezumi Informant

When Nezumi Informant enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Nezumi Informant (mom) 120
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
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
Rotting Rats

When Rotting Rats enters, each player discards a card. Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

Creature
Rotting Rats (con) 51
Sinuous Vermin

{3}{B}{B}: Monstrosity 3. (If this creature isn't monstrous, put three +1/+1 counters on it and it becomes monstrous.) As long as Sinuous Vermin is monstrous, it has menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Sinuous Vermin (cn2) 46
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.

Creature
Stronghold Rats (tsr) 142
Typhoid Rats

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

Creature
Typhoid Rats (cns) 130
Wave of Rats

Trample When Wave of Rats dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Blitz {4}{B} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Wave of Rats (ncc) 41

Rats

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Swarmyard Massacre

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Sorcery
Swarmyard Massacre (blc) 55

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Combo Pieces

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Gruesome Fate

Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery
Gruesome Fate (plst) RIX-75
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
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}

Artifact Kindred
Thornbite Staff (mb2) 99

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Land

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Bojuka Bog

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

Land
Bojuka Bog (dsc) 265
Cabal Coffers

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

Land
Cabal Coffers (mb2) 106
Castle Locthwain

Castle Locthwain enters 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
Desert of the Glorified

Desert of the Glorified enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. Cycling {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Desert of the Glorified (hou) 171
Myriad Landscape

Myriad Landscape enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Myriad Landscape: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (dsc) 289
Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (blc) 322
Rogue's Passage

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

Land
Rogue's Passage (otc) 313
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dsk) 282
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: 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
Swarmyard (blc) 133
Tectonic Edge

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice Tectonic Edge: Destroy target nonbasic land. Activate only if an opponent controls four or more lands.

Land
Tectonic Edge (m3c) 384
Three Tree City

As Three Tree City enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to the number of creatures you control of the chosen type.

Land
Three Tree City (pblb) 260p
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

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

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (uma) 254
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.

Land
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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Protection

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Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (otc) 268

Protection

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Removal

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Eliminate the Competition

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice X creatures. Destroy X target creatures.

Sorcery
Eliminate the Competition (kld) 78
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 (dsc) 78
Gild

Exile target creature. Create a Gold token. (It's an artifact with "Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Gild (bng) 73
Malicious Affliction

Morbid — When you cast this spell, if a creature died this turn, you may copy Malicious Affliction and may choose a new target for the copy. Destroy target nonblack creature.

Instant
Malicious Affliction (ema) 96
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (pmid) 112s
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Creature

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Valley Rotcaller

Menace Whenever Valley Rotcaller 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
Valley Rotcaller (blb) 119

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Ninja Enablers

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Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) Changeling Outcast can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Changeling Outcast (otc) 128
Whispersilk Cloak

Equipped creature can't be blocked and has shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {2}

Artifact
Whispersilk Cloak (dsc) 257

Ninja Enablers

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Pump

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Lashwrithe

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each Swamp you control. Equip {B/P}{B/P} ({B/P} can be paid with either {B} or 2 life.)

Artifact
Lashwrithe (nph) 143

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Sorcery

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Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (cmm) 169
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 (2xm) 110

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Cuts

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Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Artifact
Commander's Sphere (dsc) 244

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Maybeboard

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Cabal Stronghold

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

Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
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 (dds) 58
Damnable Pact

Target player draws X cards and loses X life.

Sorcery
Damnable Pact (ncc) 245
Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way. Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Decree of Pain (dsc) 136
Encroaching Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Encroaching Wastes: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Encroaching Wastes (cmr) 481
God-Eternal Bontu

Menace When God-Eternal Bontu enters, sacrifice any number of other permanents, then draw that many cards. When God-Eternal Bontu dies or is put into exile from the battlefield, you may put it into its owner's library third from the top.

Creature
God-Eternal Bontu (war) 92
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.)

Creature
Gray Merchant of Asphodel (dsc) 142
Grim Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. You lose 3 life.

Sorcery
Grim Tutor (pm21) 103s
Palace Siege

As Palace Siege enters, choose Khans or Dragons. • Khans — At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. • Dragons — At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Palace Siege (frf) 79
Ruinous Path

Destroy target creature or planeswalker. Awaken 4—{5}{B}{B} (If you cast this spell for {5}{B}{B}, also put four +1/+1 counters on target land you control and it becomes a 0/0 Elemental creature with haste. It's still a land.)

Sorcery
Ruinous Path (pbfz) 123
Thriving Rats

When Thriving Rats enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Whenever Thriving Rats attacks, you may pay {E}{E}. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Creature
Thriving Rats (kld) 102
Throne of the God-Pharaoh

At the beginning of your end step, each opponent loses life equal to the number of tapped creatures you control.

Artifact
Throne of the God-Pharaoh (akh) 237

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