I Just Think Rats Are Neat

Commander / EDH Casual Mono-Black Rats

joedski

Card Disadvantage (11)

• 1x Burglar Rat
• 1x Drainpipe Vermin
• 1x Earsplitting Rats
• 1x Gnat Miser
• 1x Locust Miser
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Scrib Nibblers
• 1x Stronghold Rats

Other (37)

• 1x Dirty Wererat
• 1x Diseased Vermin
• 1x Kuro's Taken
• 1x Nezumi Ronin
• 1x Rabid Rats
• 31x Swamp
• 1x Typhoid Rats

Evasive (5)

• 1x Nezumi Cutthroat
• 1x Rancid Rats
• 1x Sinuous Vermin
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Wave of Rats

Go Tall (4)

• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Pestilence Rats
• 1x Rat Colony
• 1x Swarm of Rats

Balance (3)

• 1x Assassin's Ink
• 1x Nezumi Bladeblesser
• 1x Roadside Reliquary

Punishment (2)

• 1x Clawing Torment
• 1x Festering Wound

Hug (1)

• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Card Advantage (8)

• 1x Invoke Despair
• 1x Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1x Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1x Predators' Hour
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Roadside Reliquary
• 1x Tribute to Horobi  ^Flip
• 1x Village Rites

Removal (8)

• 1x Assassin's Ink
• 1x Bone Shards
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Flay Essence
• 1x Invoke Despair
• 1x Soul Transfer
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Twisted Embrace

Evasion (6)

• 1x Access Tunnel
• 1x Clawing Torment
• 1x Marrow-Gnawer
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Suspicious Bookcase

Rat Tokens (5)

• 1x Marrow-Gnawer
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Tribute to Horobi  ^Flip

Graveyard Hate (3)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Skullsnatcher

Wipe (2)

• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Infected Vermin

Commander (1)

Ninjutsu (7)

• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Mukotai Ambusher
• 1x Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• 1x Nezumi Prowler
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Throat Slitter

Ramp (6)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sol Talisman
• 1x Undercity Scrounger

Tutor (4)

• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Vampiric Tutor
• 1x Wishclaw Talisman

Recursion (3)

• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding

Yoink (1)

• 1x Piper of the Swarm

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Discount (5)

• 1x Blood Funnel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Herald's Horn
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Urza's Incubator

Card Advantage (2)

• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Mikokoro, Center of the Sea

Land Consistency (2)

• 1x Armillary Sphere
• 1x Wild-Field Scarecrow

Card Filtering (1)

• 1x Path of Ancestry

Ramp (5)

• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Temple of the False God
• 1x Thespian's Stage
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Commander Tax Rebate (2)

• 1x Forge of Heroes
• 1x Opal Palace

Removal (2)

• 1x Defile
• 1x Tragic Fall

Recursion (5)

• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Evasion (2)

• 1x Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Removed (1)

• 1x Razortooth Rats

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I just think they're neat!

This is a mostly rat tribal Marrow-Gnawer– er, I mean Ashcoat Bear– I mean Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm deck that has a few other things to take advantage of having lots of disposable rats.

Other themes include:

• Evasion + Ninjutsu (Good ol' Ink-Eyes)
• Card Disadvantage, mostly by discard but also with those 2 nezumi that decrease opponents' hand sizes
• Sacrifice and a little morbid-esque
• Lots of cute rats, because if you don't tell the Sinuous Vermin they're cute they'll strangle you to death

Fun Rat Fact! Feeding the blood of your enemies to your rats keeps their coats healthy and shiny! Squeak! >'.'<

Although there's some powerful (read: expensive) cards in here, this isn't really meant to be competitive. I just want a place to put all my rats.

There's some amount of interaction, but honestly not much in the way of wipes and nothing's particularly optimal.

Date added	2 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 18 - 0 Rares 19 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B, Rat Rogue 1/1 B, Treasure