Rats and their Patron: 1st Budget Build

Commander / EDH Discard Mono-Black

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Sorcery (23)

• 1x Blackmail
• 1x Chain of Smog
• 1x Dark Deal
• 1x Delirium Skeins
• 1x Despise
• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Distress
• 1x Hymn to Tourach
• 1x Hypnotic Cloud
• 1x In Garruk's Wake
• 1x Inquisition of Kozilek
• 1x Lab Rats
• 1x Mind Peel
• 1x Mind Twist
• 1x Persecute
• 1x Raven's Crime
• 1x Ruinous Path
• 1x Smallpox
• 1x Stupor
• 1x Syphon Mind
• 1x Transgress the Mind
• 1x Unnerve
• 1x Wit's End

Instant (5)

• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Gravepurge
• 1x Grisly Spectacle
• 1x Tendrils of Corruption
• 1x Tragic Slip

Creature (22)

• 1x Bog Rats
• 1x Carrion Rats
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Deathmask Nezumi
• 1x Drainpipe Vermin
• 1x Earsplitting Rats
• 1x Gnat Miser
• 1x Gutter Skulk
• 1x Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• 1x Locust Miser
• 1x Nezumi Bone-Reader
• 1x Nezumi Cutthroat
• 1x Nezumi Shortfang  ^Flip
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Pestilence Rats
• 1x Rancid Rats
• 1x Ravenous Rats
• 1x Razortooth Rats
• 1x Rotting Rats
• 1x Stronghold Rats
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Typhoid Rats

Land (32)

• 31x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Liliana Vess

Commander (1)

Artifact (9)

• 1x Charcoal Diamond
• 1x Coat of Arms
• 1x Geth's Grimoire
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Scepter of Fugue
• 1x Skull of Ramos
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The Rack
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Bottomless Pit
• 1x Gibbering Descent
• 1x Liliana's Caress
• 1x Megrim
• 1x Oppression
• 1x Painful Quandary
• 1x Shrieking Affliction

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My very first theory craft of a deck that sounded interesting to me as I was perusing cards at random. Saw the Patron, and wanted to build a rat deck, then saw discard worked with rats pretty well, and then, well, here we are.

Feel free to let me know how to make it better, what cards to add and what to drop. I tried to stay budget with this, so if you know of any cheaper options then I'm more than willing to hear those as well.

Thanks in advance!

Date added	6 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 20 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 26 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.78
Tokens	Copy Clone, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Rat 1/1 B