Ratica Apocalyptica

Commander / EDH Card Draw Matters Combo Discard Infinite Combo Kamigawa Lifegain Mono-Black Rats Sacrifice Tokens

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Creature (33)

• 1x Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  ^Flip
• 1x Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Chittering Rats
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1x Lord Skitter's Butcher
• 1x Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Nezumi Linkbreaker
• 1x Nezumi Prowler
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Old Flitterfang
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Persistent Marshstalker
• 1x Pestilence Rats
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Rancid Rats
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Typhoid Rats
• 1x Valley Rotcaller
• 1x Voracious Vermin

Artifact (15)

• 1x Akroma's Memorial
• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Eldrazi Monument
• 1x Ghost Lantern
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Attrition
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x The Meathook Massacre
• 1x Virtue of Persistence

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Crippling Fear
• 1x Revenge of the Rats
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Land (33)

• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cabal Stronghold
• 1x Command Beacon
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 26x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x War Room
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Instant (5)

• 1x Deadly Dispute
• 1x Defile
• 1x Reckoner's Bargain
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Village Rites

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana, Dreadhorde General

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Sideboard

Enchantment (1)

• 1x No Mercy

Artifact (1)

• 1x Extraplanar Lens

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Maybeboard

Creature (26)

• 1x Daggerfang Duo
• 1x God-Eternal Bontu
• 1x Gray Merchant of Alphabet
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Mukotai Ambusher
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Rat Colony
• 1x Razortooth Rats
• 14x Relentless Rats
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Tangled Colony
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Instant (7)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Consuming Corruption
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Erebos's Intervention
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Rend Flesh

Artifact (12)

• 1x Altar of Bhaal
• 1x Dragon Throne of Tarkir
• 1x Elixir of Immortality
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Stoneforge Masterwork
• 1x Strionic Resonator
• 1x Tarrian's Journal  ^Flip
• 1x Thrumming Stone
• 1x Whip of Erebos
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Land (3)

• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mudflat Village
• 1x Temple of the False God

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Liliana, Death Mage
• 1x Liliana, the Necromancer

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Consume Spirit
• 1x Consuming Vapors
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Increasing Ambition
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Twilight's Call

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Contamination
• 1x Death Pits of Rath
• 1x Gate to Phyrexia
• 1x Grave Betrayal
• 1x Koskun Falls
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Pestilence
• 1x Tainted Remedy

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We Shall Inherit

Marrow-Gnawer is my favorite card in MTG and the main reason I started playing back in the day when Champions of Kamigawa came out. Here I've finally incorporated him into a semi-competitive commander deck. The idea of this deck is to spam rat tokens with Marrow-Gnawer's ability and other cards combo off of this by sacrificing rat tokens, removing enemy creatures, increasing your life / decreasing the opponents, and drawing lots of cards.

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The general strategy here is pretty straightforward. Try to play on curve and ensure at least 2 other rats are on the battlefield when Marrow-Gnawer comes out on turn 5 / 6. Then the rat doubling begins, and if left unchecked it can quickly snowball by turn 9 or 10.

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Primary combos:

Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff = Infinite Rats. Old school: Plunge into Darkness to sacrifice the rat tokens for infinite life. New school: Ayara, First of Locthwain / Blood Artist / Bastion of Remembrance on the field = infinite life and damage to opponent. I'm aware of the {B} Tutors that could be included to search for Thornbite Staff, I'm just opting to not always go for the infinite combo as a win-con for this deck. Just an occasional win-con.

Lightning Greaves and Cloak and Dagger make Marrow-Gnawer not targetable and can be equipped immediately for free.

Lightning Greaves and Thousand-Year Elixir give Marrow-Gnawer haste for his activated ability.

Mirkwood Bats activates 1 life loss for every rat Marrow-Gnawer creates, potentially game ending as soon as it's played.

Index

{Token Tech}

Marrow-Gnawer, Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  , Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Blood Artist, Mirkwood Bats, Ogre Slumlord, Old Flitterfang, Pack Rat, Pestilence Rats, Piper of the Swarm, Pitiless Plunderer, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Species Specialist, Attrition, Bastion of Remembrance, Black Market, Grave Pact, Coat of Arms, Eldrazi Monument, Tarrian's Journal  , Thornbite Staff, Thousand-Year Elixir, Tragic Slip, Liliana, Dreadhorde General

{Draw}

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  , Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Ratcatcher, Species Specialist, Phyrexian Arena, Skullclamp, Vanquisher's Banner, Deadly Dispute, Reckoner's Bargain, Village Rites, Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Increasing Ambition <-- Only tutor card in deck War Room

{Life Gain / Loss}

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  , Ayara, First of Locthwain, Blood Artist, Crypt Ghast, Mirkwood Bats, Old Flitterfang, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Bastion of Remembrance, Virtue of Persistence, Bontu's Monument, Consuming Corruption, Erebos's Intervention, Reckoner's Bargain, Consume Spirit

{Ramp}

Crypt Ghast, Black Market, Bontu's Monument, Liliana of the Dark Realms, Cabal Coffers, Cabal Stronghold

{Power}

Marrow-Gnawer, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, Throat Slitter, Attrition, Grave Pact, Virtue of Persistence, Akroma's Memorial, Coat of Arms, Door of Destinies, Eldrazi Monument, Toxic Deluge <--- Only board wipe in deck

{Removal}

Attrition, Grave Pact, Virtue of Persistence, Nevinyrral's Disk, Oblivion Stone, Consuming Corruption, Defile, Erebos's Intervention, Tragic Slip, Liliana of the Dark Realms, Liliana, Dreadhorde General, Consume Spirit, Toxic Deluge, Piper of the Swarm, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Throat Slitter

{Recursion}

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, Virtue of Persistence, Ghost Lantern, Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, The Tomb of Aclazotz  

{Discard}

Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal   & Nezumi Shortfang  

{Flying}

Eldrazi Monument, Akroma's Memorial, Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  , Old Flitterfang

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The sideboard for the deck is intended for use with Hexapod's Ban List in their casual high-power multiplayer games. Sol Ring and Grave Pact are banned and to be replaced by the sideboard cards.

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Edit 8/18/24 - After playtesting a few times, I feel the following changes enhance the decks overall survivability and power while losing only situational boons. Add: Tarrian's Journal  , Old Flitterfang, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal  , Crypt Ghast, Liliana of the Dark Realms, Ghost Lantern, Consuming Corruption, Vanquisher's Banner, Cloak and Dagger, Mirkwood Bats, Door of Destinies

Remove: Oversold Cemetery, Patriarch's Bidding, Twilight's Call, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Temple of the False God, Altar's Reap, God-Eternal Bontu, Consuming Vapors, Rend Flesh, Whispersilk Cloak, Skullclamp, Hero's Downfall

Top Ranked	Achieved #7 position overall 2 months ago Achieved #6 position in Commander / EDH 2 months ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Card Draw Matters 2 months ago Achieved #2 position in Commander / EDH Discard 1 week ago
Date added	1 year
Last updated	5 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 1 Mythic Rares 30 - 1 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.21
Tokens	Bat 1/1 B, Copy Clone, Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Food, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Mercenary 1/1 R, On an Adventure, Rat 1/1 B, Rat 1/1 B w/ Can't Block, Treasure, Zombie 2/2 B
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