Sneaky Sewer-Rat Spies

Modern Card Draw Matters Combo Control Discard Infinite Combo Mill Ninjutsu Rats Surveil UB (Dimir)

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Creature (27)

• 4x Azure Beastbinder
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Marrow-Gnawer
• 2x Mukotai Ambusher
• 2x Nezumi Prowler
• 2x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 4x Shoreline Looter
• 4x Silver-Fur Master
• 4x Throat Slitter
• 1x Tidecaller Mentor
• 1x Vren, the Relentless
• 1x Wonder

Land (21)

• 2x Dimir Aqueduct
• 4x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 4x Island
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 4x Undercity Sewers

Instant (3)

• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 2x Stern Scolding

Artifact (4)

• 2x Candlestick
• 1x Sword of Fire and Ice
• 1x Sword of Light and Shadow

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Crippling Fear
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Cover of Darkness
• 1x Intruder Alarm

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Maybeboard

Creature (8)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Mindwhisker
• 1x Nashi, Searcher in the Dark
• 1x Nightwhorl Hermit
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Slither Blade
• 2x Thought Shucker

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Haunting Voyage
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wrench Mind

Land (7)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 2x Dakmor Salvage
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Tocasia's Dig Site

Instant (4)

• 1x Countersquall
• 2x Force Spike
• 1x Otherworldly Gaze

Artifact (2)

• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x The Grim Captain's Locker

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Aqueous Form
• 1x Curious Obsession
• 1x Enhanced Surveillance
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Search for Azcanta  ^Flip
• 1x Waste Not

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana Vess
• 1x Liliana of the Veil

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This is my attempt to modernize my ancient Dimir Rat deck from the original Kamigawa set. Luckily the new Bloomburrow {U} and {B} rat cards fit nicely here, so nice in fact it was a bit tricky getting the deck down to 60 cards since I want everything.

Just like the many pathways in the sewers, there are many different sneaky strategies to achieve victory with this deck. Here are our goals:

1. Force discards on our opponent (and ourself).
2. Mill ourself (to Threshold).
3. Draw lots of cards and play our cheap rats.
4. Ninjutsu our cheap unblockable rats for strong surprising effects.
5. Tutor for a critical combo card like Marrow-Gnawer or Vren, the Relentless

End game scenarios:

1. Marrow-Gnawer + Intruder Alarm + sac a rat (3 or more on battlefield) = infinite 1/1 rat creature tokens (OG combo, this is the reason why I made Dimir Rats back in the day.)
2. Vren, the Relentless produces beefy rat creature tokens from kills that stomp opponent
3. Patriarch's Bidding or Liliana Vess ultimate ability to bring back all the milled / sacced / discarded creatures from graveyards.

Index

{Unblockable}

Azure Beastbinder, Shoreline Looter, Marrow-Gnawer-ish,

{Ninjutsu}

Silver-Fur Master, Throat Slitter, Okiba-Gang Shinobi, Nezumi Prowler, Mukotai Ambusher, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni

{Discard / Mill / Sac / Surveil}

Nashi, Searcher in the Dark, Okiba-Gang Shinobi, Shoreline Looter, Candlestick, Dakmor Salvage, Geier Reach Sanitarium, Undercity Sewers, Liliana Vess, Marrow-Gnawer

{Removal}

Throat Slitter, Toxic Deluge, Drown in the Loch

{Draw}

Shoreline Looter, Ratcatcher, Sword of Fire and Ice

{Tutor}

Diabolic Tutor, Ratcatcher, Liliana Vess

{Lifelink / Lifegain}

Mukotai Ambusher, Nezumi Prowler, Sword of Light and Shadow

{Recursion}

Tidecaller Mentor, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, Patriarch's Bidding, Liliana Vess, Sword of Light and Shadow

{Control}

Drown in the Loch, Intruder Alarm

{Power}

Marrow-Gnawer, Vren, the Relentless, Patriarch's Bidding, Silver-Fur Master, Wonder

Card Combos

Shoreline Looter and Azure Beastbinder are our unblockable creatures that will enable us to Ninjutsu anything easily. Silver-Fur Master makes Ninjutsu cheaper and buffs everything to boot. Marrow-Gnawer can also help Ninjutsu with Fear if he's out.

Shoreline Looter + Candlestick is a great early game combo to hit the Threshold count fast. Then it's all free draws from there out.

Tidecaller Mentor and Nezumi Prowler can regain their ETB effects by getting returned to hand from Ninjutsu. Rogue's Passage makes a fitting appearance here for this purpose, and it also combos with Throat Slitter. The {5} mana + Ninjutsu cost shouldn't be a problem late game when you already have Threshold for Tidecaller Mentor. Also, with Marrow-Gnawer out, they will have Fear and be (mostly) unblockable.

Throat Slitter pairs nicely with Silver-Fur Master and also works wonders with Vren, the Relentless. And then Toxic Deluge is a board wipe option with Vren out to create our beefy rat bois. Nezumi Prowler can also get a sneaky kill in as well through Ninjutsu, comboing with Vren. And there's also just straight up removal with Drown in the Loch.

Surveil or Discard or Destroy Target Wonder to give all rats Flying.

Diabolic Tutor to pull anything to suit the situation. Typical best choices: Ratcatcher, Marrow-Gnawer, Vren, the Relentless. Situational choices: Patriarch's Bidding after getting board wiped or to close out game. Toxic Deluge to board wipe 1/1 or 2/2 hordes. Liliana Vess to force discards on self or opponent. Shoreline Looter or Sword of Fire and Ice for Draw. Tidecaller Mentor or Sword of Light and Shadow for targeted creature recursion. Wonder if going up against a heavy Flying deck.

Top Ranked	Achieved #11 position overall 2 months ago Achieved #5 position in Modern 2 months ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Card Draw Matters 2 months ago Achieved #1 position in Modern Discard 2 months ago
Date added	3 months
Last updated	2 weeks
Legality	This deck is Modern legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 23 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.97
Tokens	Rat 1/1 B, Rat 1/1 B w/ Kindred
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