The Great Barrier Rat

Legacy Casual Lifegain Multiplayer WB (Orzhov)

MagicMarc

Creature (16)

• 4x Crypt Rats
• 2x Ogre Slumlord
• 2x Thrashing Wumpus
• 4x Typhoid Rats
• 4x Vizkopa Guildmage

Sorcery (8)

• 2x Diabolic Tutor
• 2x Disturbed Burial
• 4x Sign in Blood

Land (22)

• 4x Orzhov Guildgate
• 4x Plains
• 4x Scoured Barrens
• 10x Swamp

Enchantment (14)

• 4x Eternal Thirst
• 2x Gift of Immortality
• 4x Lashknife Barrier
• 4x Lifelink

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Sideboard

Creature (4)

• 4x Hedron-Field Purists

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A casual deck based around abusing Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier or Crypt Rats + Spirit Loop or any other kind of Lifelink card.

Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier or Lashknife Barrier + Thrashing Wumpus : Lets you tap 1b to deal damage to everything and everyone except for your own creatures. So instead of say, spending 3b to activate the rats or wumpus, you just spend 1b, let it resolve, then do it again and so on. This would let you deal 3 pts around the table without killing any of your own creatures.
Crypt Rats + Eternal Thirst + Lashknife Barrier or Eternal Thirst + Lashknife Barrier + Thrashing Wumpus : Lets you gain lives from your rats or wumpus killing everything and puts +1/+1 counters on your rats. You should be able to clear the way to swing with a big rat after you kill everything. Whats even better is you can use it's ability even while it is tapped.
Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier + Spirit Loop or Lashknife Barrier + Spirit Loop + Thrashing Wumpus : Lets you gain lives from your rats or wumpus and also gets your lifelink card back to hand if something kills your rats or wumpus. This lets you have a kind of minor recursion engine using a copy of Disturbed Burial along with Spirit Loop. If they kill a rat or wumpus, you can simply get it back to hand with Disturbed Burial and then re-play it and the Spirit Loop that got returned to hand when the rats/wumpus died. Once you can pay the buyback cost on Disturbed Burial you can repeatedly get back a creature and then lifelink it.
Crypt Rats + Ogre Slumlord : This lets you kill any creature that can be killed by damage for 1b as the rats now have deathtouch.
Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier + Ogre Slumlord or Lashknife Barrier + Ogre Slumlord + Thrashing Wumpus : And as added bonus, while you are killing every creature, the slumlord is growing you a giant army of deathtouching rat love.
Crypt Rats + Vizkopa Guildmage or Thrashing Wumpus + Vizkopa Guildmage : Activating the second ability of the guildmage if you already have a lifelink card on your rats/wumpus or following activating his first ability will let you finish a game very quickly. You spend 1b to activate your rats/wumpus and lets say it damages 2 creatures/players. You gain 2 lives, and each of your opponents lose 2 lives. Can dish a lot of lifeloss very quickly. In big multiplayer games, this can be very big numbers.

Date added	9 years
Last updated	4 years
Key combos	Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier Crypt Rats + Spirit Loop Lashknife Barrier + Thrashing Wumpus Crypt Rats + Eternal Thirst + Lashknife Barrier Eternal Thirst + Lashknife Barrier + Thrashing Wumpus Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier + Spirit Loop Lashknife Barrier + Spirit Loop + Thrashing Wumpus Crypt Rats + Ogre Slumlord Crypt Rats + Lashknife Barrier + Ogre Slumlord Lashknife Barrier + Ogre Slumlord + Thrashing Wumpus Crypt Rats + Vizkopa Guildmage Thrashing Wumpus + Vizkopa Guildmage
Legality	This deck is Legacy legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 4 Rares 14 - 0 Uncommons 22 - 0 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.47
Tokens	Rat 1/1 B
Folders	My Decks, Prob, Preconstructed Multiplayer