Marrow-Gnawer and his Friendly Rat Gang

Commander / EDH Mono-Black Tribal

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Creature (29)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Ascendant Evincar
• 1x Balthor the Defiled
• 1x Cairn Wanderer
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Disease Carriers
• 1x Drainpipe Vermin
• 1x Gnat Miser
• 1x Gutter Skulk
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Locust Miser
• 1x Moonglove Changeling
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Nezumi Cutthroat
• 1x Nezumi Graverobber  ^Flip
• 1x Nezumi Ronin
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Okiba-Gang Shinobi
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Patron of the Nezumi
• 1x Pestilence Rats
• 1x Rancid Rats
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Scrib Nibblers
• 1x Skullsnatcher
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Throat Slitter
• 1x Typhoid Rats

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Sorin Markov

Land (35)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Strip Mine
• 27x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Bad Moon
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Night Dealings
• 1x No Mercy
• 1x Oversold Cemetery
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Underworld Connections
• 1x Vampiric Rites

Artifact (15)

• 1x Altar of Dementia
• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Fleetfeather Sandals
• 1x Hall of Triumph
• 1x Illusionist's Bracers
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Umbral Mantle
• 1x War Horn
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Instant (3)

• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Sudden Spoiling

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Beacon of Unrest
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Dark Petition
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Disentomb
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Lab Rats

Commander (1)

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Marrow-Gnawer Commander deck. This deck is in the early stages of building, and a lot of the cards are those that I already had.

I'm going for kind of a Rat Tribal deck. Put in a few rats, double them a few times, beef 'em up and make them hard to hit, and kaboom. Any and all comments and criticism is welcome.

Replacements and Changes Idea Space

I don't have all the cards to make some (most) of these yet. Working on it.

Replace Gutter Skulk with Kuro's Taken . Same cost, Bushido 1 gives it +1/+1, ultimately making it a 2/2. It has regenerate for one and a black. Much much better than Gutter Skulk.

Replace Drainpipe Vermin with Zodiac Rat ? I don't have a Swampwalk card yet; could be annoying if beefed up a bit. Also good to have cheap rats to get Marrow-Gnawer to duplicate as soon as possible.

Replace Disease Carriers with Dirty Wererat ? It costs the same and has one more toughness, it has the ability to be regenerated, at the cost of a discard though, but it gets boosted +2/+2 to 4/5 if I have enough cards in the graveyard. The regeneration cost could help get him there, and all Disease Carriers does is a single -2/-2 when it comes in to play.

Add Patriarch's Bidding for obvious reasons.

Vesuva would be real good to copy Swarmyard or Cabal Coffers.

Altar of the Brood and/or Altar of Dementia would go well late game. Make a ton of rats with Marrow-Gnawer and mil my opponents out.

Need more tutors.

Infinite Combos

Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff equals infinite rats.

Infinite rats and Altar of the Brood or Altar of Dementia equals infinite mil.

Combo infinite rats with Ashnod's Altar + Scrib Nibblers + Umbral Mantle . Double rats, tap Nibs, sac two rats, pay 3 of the 4 mana to untap Nibs, untap Gnawer from the sac, repeat, infinite mil into exile.

Cards to Maybe Replace

Whip of Erebos

War Horn

Bad Moon

Date added	9 years
Last updated	8 years
Exclude colors	WURG
Key combos	Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff Ashnod's Altar + Scrib Nibblers + Umbral Mantle
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 30 - 0 Rares 20 - 0 Uncommons 20 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.22
Tokens	Copy Clone, Rat 1/1 B
Folders	EDH Ideas, Commander, Mono Black