Rodent Infestation

Casual* Casual Discard Mono-Black Theme/Gimmick Tokens Tribal

ImperfectBeing

Creature (21)

• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 3x Diregraf Ghoul
• 3x Graf Rats  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 2x Marrow-Gnawer
• 1x Midnight Scavengers  ^Meld
• 2x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 3x Pack Rat
• 2x Throat Slitter
• 4x Typhoid Rats

Land (20)

• 20x Swamp

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Gift of Orzhova

Artifact (5)

• 1x Cobbled Wings
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 2x Ring of Xathrid
• 1x Thornbite Staff

Instant (10)

• 2x Borrowed Malevolence
• 1x Crypt Incursion
• 2x Dark Ritual
• 1x Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 2x Gravepurge
• 2x Tragic Slip

Sorcery (3)

• 3x Despise

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This is a casual rat themed deck designed to combat the other various decks in any play group but can be adapted to suit anyone. To make this easier< I will look at each card individually so that anyone can determine if they need or want to replace a card. First off, Cobbled Wings might seem a bit out of place and would probably the first card to be swapped out. The reason I put it in there was to create an opening for my rat ninjas as well as to combat any flyers. Crypt Incursion is based around the secondary theme of this deck, discard, and some pretty substantial life gain for black. Death Denied is their to protect from one of the biggest dangers to a rat deck, board wipe.Despise Is a nice discard for and you get to look at your opponents hand and discard any of their one drops. Disfigure is a nice creature removal card and just handy to have. Dismember is for that super powerful creature that your opponent plays and you can play it for if you need to. Door of Destinies is a great way to strengthen you army and make your rats hit hard.Duress is one of the only ways that this deck can defend it's self from an instant or sorcery and is another good card for turn one. Foul-Tongue Shriek is a great way to up the damage in a swarm deck and it's damage is separate from your normal damage. Combine this with Marrow-Gnawer and you could win the game. Marrow-Gnawer is the most expensive card in this deck but for good reason. In a few turns you can have an army of rats and if you have a few counters on door of destinies, you can deal 20 damage in one turn. It also has a great combo with Thornbite Staff (Thanks Panzerforge) where you generate endless rats! Okiba-Gang Shinobi is a great card when you combine it with Cobbled Wings + Ravenous Rats as you use cobbled wings to fly over defences and ninjutsu on Ravenous Rats to send it back to your hand and then, on your next turn, trigger Ravenous Rats' enter the battlefield effect again. So much discard! Pack Rat is a great card and can win the game all by it's self. You don't even have to use it's ability on your turn so you can keep your opponent guessing. Phyrexian Tribute is for those pesky artifacts you need to destroy. Ravenous Rats is a discard rat and a useful rat to sacrifice for Marrow-Gnawer. Card:Sadistic sacrament is a great way to see what you opponent has in their deck and useful if your playing against someone who you know has an amazing combo coming up. Swamps are what I am using but in my acquire list I have a bunch of better alternate lands that you can mess around with. Thornbite Staff is only here for that amazing combo where you equip it to Marrow-Gnawer and use its ability which in the process triggers Thornbite Staff and untaps Marrow-Gnawer allowing you to repeat. Throat Slitter is just a great way to kill things and you can start a ninjitsu cycle with it and another ninja rat. Typhoid Rats is an amazing card for and is a good defender for one of the stronger rats.This is my first deck so any suggestions, advice or basic deck building tips are greatly appreciated.

Date added	8 years
Last updated	8 years
Key combos	Cobbled Wings + Ravenous Rats
Legality	This deck is Casual legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 0 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.25
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B