U smack rats?

Commander / EDH Combo Mono-Black Rats Theme/Gimmick Tribal

Papageki

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Cruel Tutor
• 1x Demonic Collusion
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Final Strike
• 1x Grim Tutor
• 1x Imperial Seal
• 1x Rhystic Tutor

Instant (2)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (49)

• 1x Maralen of the Mornsong
• 46x Relentless Rats
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Viscera Seer

Artifact (4)

• 1x Aetherflux Reservoir
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Thrumming Stone

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Exquisite Blood
• 1x Sanguine Bond

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Land (30)

• 30x Swamp

Commander (1)

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I don't recommend playing this deck anywhere but in personal friend groups for it is very trolly. Its also very expensive, so more than likely a troll deck you only play in proxy or a virtual table top.

U got friends that like to smack rats? U like rats? U want to avenge ur rat friends? This deck is for you. Very easy to play.

Your commander is Marrow-Gnawer. He gives all rats fear and allows you to essentially double the amount of rats you have on the board. This deck is very simple: spawn rats, swarm with rats. Of course, it has some other win conditions just in case you get interrupted.

Combos

Your first and foremost combos is going to be Relentless Rats + Thrumming Stone . This is pretty self explanatory, you use thrumming stone to summon relentless rats, and because you have 46 of them in your deck you're incredibly likely to get a very massive amount onto the board with just one use. Pair that with your commander, and you'll get even more (who can't be blocked except by black or artifacts if your commander is in play). Using Aetherflux Reservoir allows you to get decent amount of health from the thrumming stone as well, usually more than enough to activate its ability comfortably.

Next is a fairly well known combo Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond , which after dealing one point of damage or gain life will loop infinitely.

One weakness I found in this deck is that you can die before your rats can attack after duplicating them. I couldn't think of any mass haste cards, so instead I added Vindictive Vampire + Viscera Seer , which should let you sacrifice your numerous rats instantly for a win, if I understood it right.

Strats

This deck is simple. You have 46 rats, 30 swamps, several tutors, your thrumming stone, a Coat of Arms, and some backup win cons. You want to use your tutors to get thrumming stone asap, then preferably coat of arms comes next. Coat of arms will turn your 1/1 rat tokens into x/x rat tokens, where x is the number of rats you control-1 ("for each other creature..."). If you happen to draw your tutors before your other win cons, you can use them to grab those too, if you need or want to. That's pretty much it. Its a very simple deck. By turn five, you should have at least your commander and one rat, by turn 6 or 7 you should have thrumming stone (unfortunately I don't know of enough tutors to even the odds of drawing one, but there should be enough anyway), and after getting the stone you cast another rat asap. You should be able to spawn at least 10 in the one use, though in my own tests I've gotten as much as 34. Then just sac 1 and duplicate them.

For example, with that test where I got 34 rats, I duplicated them for 66 rats. With coat of arms, you have at 66 rats, of which 33 (the tokens) are 66/66 and the other 33 (the relentless rats) are 101/101 (+32/+32 for each other Relentless rat, +66/+66 for each other rat). Use one of your win cons if, for some reason, you can't swarm your opponents (my personal favorite is Aetherflux Reservoir + Exquisite Blood ).

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Exquisite Blood + Sanguine Bond Relentless Rats + Thrumming Stone Aetherflux Reservoir + Exquisite Blood Vindictive Vampire + Viscera Seer
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 16 - 0 Rares 50 - 0 Uncommons 1 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.11
Tokens	Rat 1/1 B