Master Splinter

Duel Commander* Mono-Black Tribal

GoofyFoot

Creature (38)

• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Griselbrand
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Maga, Traitor to Mortals
• 1x Midnight Banshee
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Nirkana Revenant
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 20x Relentless Rats
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Triskelion

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
• 1x Sorin Markov

Land (36)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Lake of the Dead
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 29x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Enchantment (6)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bitterblossom
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Contamination
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (8)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Extraplanar Lens
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Diabolic Revelation
• 1x Exsanguinate
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Plague Wind

Commander (1)

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Sideboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Marrow-Gnawer

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Maybeboard

Creature (1)

• 1x Platinum Emperion

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Necropotence

Instant (1)

• 1x Ad Nauseam

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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES! TURTLES IN THE HALF-SHELL! TURTLE POWER!

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Down in the sewers, we wait. We watch. Our time is Nigh......

This is my Rat tribal deck. It's not totally rats, but I create enough rat tokens that it doesn't matter. This deck is viable in multiplayer as well as duel, Just switch the Griselbrand out for Necropotence stashed conveniently in the maybeboard. It's designed to bring out rats as fast as possible and keep the pressure on all day, 'erry day. When the deck isn't bringing rats out, is ramping almost as fast as a green deck, and getting considerably more value out of it. Nothing like killing an opponent with a 30/30 Maga, Traitor to Mortals hitting the field, and then proceeding to kill another opponent via combat.

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Notable Cards/ Combos:

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Triskelion: Infinite damage. Remove counters from Triskelion, using the last on to target himself, and Mikaeus brings him back with an extra counter. rinse and repeat.

Relentless Rats: why play anything else? all the rats I could ask for, and they just keep getting bigger the more that show up.

Gray Merchant of Asphodel: He's so good to me. I've gotten him off for 40 before, no joke. Needless to say, I won that game.

Exsanguinate and/or Maga, Traitor to Mortals: See Gray Merchant. The difference here is I can usually do double what merchant can with either of these cards. Ramping like no other over here.

Bitterblossom + Contamination: Who needs land destruction when I just can just make your lands do nothing? Non-black decks now have large amounts of colorless mana, and unless they are dropping eldrazi, they have very few ways to deal with my combo.

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Other cards in the maybeboard are probably going to be added once I A) aquire them and B) figure out what to take out for them. Shouldn't be too hard though.....

+1s and suggestion appreciated!

Date added	11 years
Last updated	10 years
Legality	This deck is Duel Commander legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 31 - 1 Rares 28 - 0 Uncommons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.97
Tokens	Copy Clone, Demon 5/5 B, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath, Faerie Rogue 1/1 B, Rat 1/1 B, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	EDH, EDH, rats, yay, modern, Rats Edh