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Skaven Swarm (Rats) Kitchen Table

Casual* Aggro Casual Mono-Black Theme/Gimmick Tokens Tribal

Konradoge


If you have ever heard of Kitchen Table magic, then you must have head of the crazy Squirrel tokens deck, that works to constantly create tokens that will outnumber your opponents blockers, therefore chipping at their health. This deck works in a slightly similar way, but instead of using a large army as our win condition, we use it to create multiple win conditions. So on to the deck itself:

Rats.

Rats feature little bit of synergy, but the synergy they do have, is enough to make a crazy, casual deck. This deck forces your opponent to discard cards early for control, whilst slowly letting in a tiny army of weak rats, however what rats lack in stats, they gain in numbers, and these numbers can then actually give amazing stats. Let me give you the 3 main win conditions:

Marrow-Gnawer for the cheap price of one rat, like the one created with Lab Rats, allows us to double our rat army at an uncontrollable speed. if you have a minimum of 3 other rats as well as Marrow-Gnawer, you are set, going from 3 to 4 to 6 to 10 to 18 to 34, in just 7 turns, from Marrow-Gnawer alone! This allows us to build a large army, but not only that, its an army hard to get rid of. Especially in a multiplayer game, if we lose 4 rats out of 8, we can make back our losses in seconds. And because rats area tribe, we can utilize cards like Coat of Arms, Obelisk of Urd and/or Eldrazi Monument to destroy anyone who allowed our army to grow.

The next win condition borrows from our previous one, by creating a large collection of rats, to make huge rats, with Pack Rats and/or Relentless Rats

Our third win condition is simply poison counters, by using the mini synergy thanks to Ichor Rats + Septic Rats to stack counters on our opponent. If you want to make this a more prominent part of the deck, I strongly suggest playing Tainted Strike and Phyresis especially on creatures like Pack Rats, since they will increase pressure on your opponents.

And not as a win condition, but we also have the security of forcing our opponent to discard, constantly removing answers.

In terms of sideboard: None. Come on, this is a casual deck.

oh and maybe this can inspire you to make a rat commander deck ;)

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After some play testing, I realised the Relentless Rats are too relient on each other for them to work, so if you choose, play them, but make them the majority of a deck, or do what I did, and substitute them with other rats that can work well by themselves.

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Date added 8 years
Last updated 5 years
Exclude colors WURG
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This deck is Casual legal.

Rarity (main - side)

2 - 0 Mythic Rares

17 - 0 Rares

18 - 0 Uncommons

20 - 0 Commons

Cards 75
Avg. CMC 3.13
Tokens Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B
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