Cardinal Copia's RATS!

Commander / EDH Casual Mono-Black Multiplayer Rats Theme/Gimmick

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Artifact (13)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Dolmen Gate
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Soul Foundry
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thrumming Stone

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Head Games
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Secret Salvage *f-pre*
• 1x Torment of Hailfire
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize

Creature (27)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Erebos, God of the Dead
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Metallic Mimic
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 12x Rat Colony
• 5x Rat Colony
• 1x Ratcatcher

Land (34)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 27x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard

Instant (7)

• 1x Darkness
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Imp's Mischief
• 1x Thrilling Encore
• 1x Treacherous Urge
• 1x Withering Boon

Commander (1)

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Oubliette
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Phyrexian Reclamation

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Land (3)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Unclaimed Territory

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necropotence

Artifact (1)

• 1x Jet Medallion

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Creature (2)

• 1x Relentless Rats
• 1x Throat Slitter

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"Once I dreamt of death, but now it dreams of me|And only rats and rotting flesh can hear my silent plea." -Mundungu chant

"Them filthy rodents are still coming for your souls." -Cardinal Copia

Hello, this is a Rat tribal deck that I built for more casual gameplay. This is also the intro commander deck I've made for my wife, because she enjoys the band Ghost, and loves rats(the song and the animal).

This deck is designed with more flavorful rats than going straight Rat Colony with Thrumming Stone. I do like how well that combo plays, but this deck is more of a celebration of the Rat Tribe. Not all the rats I wanted made the cut, but this deck is a ton of fun to play.

Main objective is to swarm the board with your rats, or win with several of the other win conditions added in the deck. Go infinite with Marrow-Gnawer and Thornbite Staff with at least 3 rats on the field. When swarming the board, even 5 or 6 rats can be devastating with one of my favorite cards, Coat of Arms.

I've also included Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate as devastating finishers.

This deck also runs Liliana, Dreadhorde General and if you can get her to use her -9, that can end the game rather quickly.

Meant to be fun, not degrading to your opponents with irritating combos.

This started on more of a budget side, but will add in some more expensive cards as time goes on. Cards such as Cabal Coffers or Damnation were just out of my price range so were not included, but the intention is to add them over time.

The deck has been in paper for awhile, but figured I'd post this since the new Secret Lair got announced.

NOTE: You can replace Rat Colony with Relentless Rats and besides having a slightly higher management curve, the deck functions the same.

If you have suggestions for improvements, or spot any must includes that I have missed, please let me know.

Top Ranked	Achieved #33 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #22 position in Commander / EDH 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Casual 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Commander / EDH Mono-Black 4 years ago
Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 40 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B
Folders	EDH, Love, Cool Decks, maybe, Medium Budget Deck EDH, Favs, deck ideas, References for ideas i want to try, Tokens, Rats