No "Rats" hub
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Posted on Nov. 21, 2019, 1:08 p.m. by proglover13
There has been quite the influx of rat decks lately(yay!) and I think they merit their own hub.
GhostChieftain says... #3
I think there are some tribes that should certainly have their own tribal tag, most of the ones that do have had a time in which they had a huge spotlight on them as a tribal group. While the nezumi were a tribe in kamigawa, I don't think they have all that much tribal unity within. I say if we don't just add all creature types as tribal tag, rats probably doesn't need its own tag.
November 21, 2019 2:24 p.m.
proglover13 says... #4
Not even just the Nezumi. I've seen so many Rat Colony decks since Dominaria dropped. And with the recent Pied Piper, Mad Ratter, and Chittering Witch;it just seems like Rats are here to stay and ate getting bigger with plenty of ways to combo off with various kinds of Rats(a really cool recent one I saw is Pack Rat with zero cost madness cards)
November 22, 2019 2:59 a.m.
The Rat creature type is one of my absolute favorites in the game. Sadly they don't really function like a tribe in the traditional sense very often. I'm not a fan of continually adding more and more tribes into the categories personally.
November 22, 2019 8:19 a.m.
GhostChieftain says... #6
100% RedmundR2. They have like 5 cards that care about the actual rat creature type. Relentless Rats and Rat Colony are great, but they don't work with other rats to do anything. Making rat tokens is great also, but they don't help each other. Marrow-Gnawer , Ratcatcher , Swarmyard , Piper of the Swarm , and Ogre Slumlord are the only ways to help rat tribal outside of basic "name a creature type" cards. 5 is not near enough to warrant a hub imo
November 22, 2019 9:43 a.m.
Rat player here. Agree no hub needed. No real support as mentioned. Assuming the benefit of a hub would be to find rat focused decks you can simply search Relentless Rats and Rat Colony for swarm focused rat decks, OR Burglar Rat and Ravenous Rats for discard focused rat decks.
shadow63 says... #2
I think they've done away with the individual tags for each tribe but if that's not the case I second a rat tag
November 21, 2019 1:58 p.m.