Mischief and Pain

Commander / EDH Discard Mono-Black

FrogBoy95

Creature (36)

• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Gnat Miser
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Locust Miser
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Patron of the Nezumi
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 16x Rat Colony
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Typhoid Rats

Artifact (16)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Coldsteel Heart
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nyx Lotus
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Throne of the God-Pharaoh
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Land (35)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 33x Swamp
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Gruesome Fate
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Return from Extinction

Commander (1)

Instant (8)

• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Defile
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Footbottom Feast
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Murder
• 1x Tragic Slip

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Underworld Connections

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I've been trying to add a few more lower-powered EDH decks to my rotation and thought the Secret Lair: Year of the Rat provided me with a good starting idea. The goal is to use Rat Colony and Marrow-Gnawer 's activated ability to swarm your opponents and overwhelm the board with a mischief of rats. If the game goes long, there are some good recursion enablers with cards like Gravepurge that let you put any rats that got board-wiped back into your library so you can keep pumping them out. Ayara, First of Locthwain turns Marrow-Gnawer into a machine gun as he generates more and more rats, with each rat draining the opponents as it enters. If you ever have Ayara, Marrow-Gnawer, and an Illusionist's Bracers on the field, as long as you can get the bracers onto Marrow-Gnawer, it will only take one or 2 turns of generating tokens to mow down your opponents' life totals.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 38 - 0 Rares 13 - 0 Uncommons 15 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.85
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B