A Fistful of Rats [Rat Colony/Rat Tribal]

Commander / EDH Mono-Black Tribal

DollarStagg

Artifact (12)

• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Manriki-Gusari
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Quietus Spike
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thrumming Stone
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (4)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Dismember
• 1x Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1x Go for the Throat

Creature (45)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 39x Rat Colony
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Zodiac Rat

Land (34)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 30x Swamp

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding

Commander (1)

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Underworld Connections

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Artifact (3)

• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Obelisk of Urd

Creature (2)

• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Land (2)

• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Swarmyard

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First attempt at a rat deck. Tribals are my jam and rat colony will never stop being funny to me so that's all the motivation I needed.

Target wincon is mostly just going wide and swinging. Thrumming stone potentially allows most of the deck of Rat Colony to come out in one turn with some luck, and the combo of Marrow-Gnawer and Thornbite Staff potentially creates infinite rat tokens.

Rat Colony is chosen over Relentless Rats because of the ability to Skullclamp them, as well as the fact that their bonus can proc off of any other rat, instead of just other copies of the same card.

Top Ranked	Achieved #27 position overall 5 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 14 - 0 Rares 12 - 0 Uncommons 42 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.42
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B
Folders	Hyper's Interesting Decks