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Commander

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Marrow-Gnawer
All Rats have fear.
, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.
Legendary Creature - Rat Rogue
Marrow-Gnawer (plst) CHK-124

Commander

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combat tricks

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Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Whenever Ashcoat 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.)
Legendary Creature - Rat Warlock
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm (j22) 19
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.)
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Haunted One (clb) 654

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Creature

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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
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 token can't block."
Legendary Creature - Rat Noble
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97

Creature

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draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain
Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Elf Noble
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
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 is every creature type.)
Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 669
Corrupted Conviction
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Corrupted Conviction (mom) 98
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 "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Instant
Deadly Dispute (clb) 124
Infectious Inquiry
You draw two cards and you lose 2 life. Each opponent gets a poison counter.
Sorcery
Infectious Inquiry (one) 97
Mask of Griselbrand
Equipped creature has flying and lifelink.
Whenever equipped creature dies, you may pay X life, where X is its power. If you do, draw X cards.
Equip
Legendary Artifact - Equipment
Mask of Griselbrand (mid) 111
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (moc) 259
Phyrexian Arena
At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
Plumb the Forbidden
As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way.
You draw a card and lose 1 life.
Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (stx) 81
Sign in Blood
Target player draws two cards and loses 2 life.
Sorcery
Sign in Blood (scd) 107
Species Specialist
As this creature enters, choose a creature type.
Whenever a creature of the chosen type dies, you may draw a card.
Creature - Human Warrior
Species Specialist (c20) 47
Vampiric Rites
, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life and draw a card.
Enchantment
Vampiric Rites (j22) 484
Village Rites
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Instant
Village Rites (j22) 486

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huge creature

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Rat Colony
This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control.
A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.
Creature - Rat
Rat Colony (plst) DOM-101

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Land

Qty: 33 (35 w/ MDFC)Price: $211.83
Cabal Coffers
,
: Add
for each Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cabal Stronghold
: Add
.
,
: Add
for each basic Swamp you control.
Land
Cabal Stronghold (dom) 238
Castle Locthwain
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add
.
,
: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Land
Castle Locthwain (clb) 884
Cavern of Souls
As this land enters, choose a creature type.
: Add
.
: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.
Land
Cavern of Souls (2x2) 320
Mortuary Mire
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
: Add
.
Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
: Add
.
,
: 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.)
Legendary Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: 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 (cmm) 423
Reliquary Tower
You have no maximum hand size.
: Add
.
Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
Rogue's Passage
: Add
.
,
: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Land
Rogue's Passage (clb) 913
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (j22) 106
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
Swarmyard (tsr) 284
War Room
: Add
.
,
, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Land
War Room (clb) 929
Witch's Cottage
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Swamp
Witch's Cottage (eld) 249

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protection

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Malakir Rebirth
Choose target creature. You lose 2 life. Until end of turn, that creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control."
Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111

protection

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ramp

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (onc) 125
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
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Herald's Horn
As this artifact enters, choose a creature type.
Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost
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 (40k) 241
Jet Medallion
Black spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Artifact
Jet Medallion (plst) TMP-292
Jeweled Lotus
, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.
Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 396
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (onc) 140

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Rat colony synergy

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Mirror Box
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Each legendary creature you control gets +1/+1.
Each nontoken creature you control gets +1/+1 for each other creature you control with the same name as that creature.
Artifact
Mirror Box (neo) 250
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.)
Legendary Artifact
Thrumming Stone (2x2) 315

Rat colony synergy

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removal

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Deadly Rollick
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Exile target creature.
Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Doom Blade
Destroy target nonblack creature.
Instant
Doom Blade (ima) 87
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
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (bro) 102
Hagra Mauling
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (mid) 107
Slaughter Pact
Destroy target nonblack creature.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay
. If you don't, you lose the game.
Instant
Slaughter Pact (tsr) 138
Throat Slitter
Ninjutsu
(
, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.
Creature - Rat Ninja
Throat Slitter (pca) 37

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res

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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
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
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
Phyrexian Reclamation
, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
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

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sac outlet

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Phyrexian Altar
Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.
Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311

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token gen

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Chittering Witch
When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have.
, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
Creature - Human Warlock
Chittering Witch (afc) 95
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
Ogre Slumlord (j22) 71
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
Piper of the Swarm (afc) 106

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Win when ahead

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Gruesome Fate
Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.
Sorcery
Gruesome Fate (plst) RIX-75

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