Rat Colony/Laboratory Maniac EDH

Commander / EDH

PoisonNectar

Land (28)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Blasted Landscape
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Desert of the Mindful
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 8x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Remote Isle
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Artifact (2)

• 1x Thrumming Stone
• 1x Vedalken Orrery

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Leyline of Anticipation

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Cranial Extraction
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Lobotomy
• 1x Lost Legacy
• 1x Memoricide
• 1x Stain the Mind
• 1x Windfall

Instant (7)

• 1x Blue Sun's Zenith
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Dissolve
• 1x Pull from Tomorrow
• 1x Stroke of Genius
• 1x Surgical Extraction

Commander (1)

Creature (52)

• 1x Demonlord Belzenlok
• 1x Laboratory Maniac
• 48x Rat Colony
• 1x Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 1x Vedalken AEthermage

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Sorcery (3)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Doomsday
• 1x Mastermind's Acquisition

Instant (1)

• 1x Demonic Consultation

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The idea is to win using Laboratory Maniac by destroying nearly half of your deck (your Rat Colony) using one of the following cards: Cranial Extraction, Lobotomy, Lost Legacy, Memoricide, Surgical Extraction, Demonic Consultation or Stain the Mind. Also, Thrumming Stone can be used to play multiple Rat Colonys at once.

From then on, you'll mostly be drawing lands, so I added some cycle lands such as Remote Isle and Polluted Mire to allow you the flexibility that cycle lands provide, in that the user can choose to either gain a land or draw a card. In addition, cards like Myriad Landscape and Terramorphic Expanse simultaneously fix your mana and thin your deck.

When you aren't drawing lands, you'll mostly be drawing the deck-thinning cards mentioned earlier (which can be used to remove other deck thinner cards from your deck that you don't need anymore. At this point, you will also start to use cards like Stroke of Genius, Blue Sun's Zenith and Pull from Tomorrow to draw lots of cards at once. Demonlord Belzenlok is useful for burning through lands during this stage.

Near the end of your deck, attempt to get one card left in your deck at the end of your turn with Vedalken Orrery or Leyline of Anticipation on the battlefield, and Counterspell or Dissolve in hand, so that you can play Laboratory Maniac before you draw your final card at the beginning of your turn, with the counterspells in hand to protect Laboratory Maniac. Alternatively, simply use one of the card drawing effects to draw yourself out after you play Laboratory Maniac during your turn.

In a pinch, Demonic Tutor and Vedalken AEthermage can tutor Laboratory Maniac.

Currently this deck does not work as quickly as I would hope, and any suggestions would be welcome

I find that I draw too many Rat Colonys when I need lands, but once I remove my Rat Colonys, there are still too many cards left to quickly mill myself. Currently my average turn to mill myself by is ~17, with my best being 12 and my worst being 23, so by no means is this competitive, just a fun idea!

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	16 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 58 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.36