Rats in the Walls - EDH

Commander / EDH Mono-Black Rats Tokens

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Creature (34)

• 1x Adaptive Automaton
• 1x Ayara, First of Locthwain
• 1x Chittering Witch
• 1x Crypt Ghast
• 1x Crypt Rats
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Karumonix, the Rat King
• 1x Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 1x Piper of the Swarm
• 18x Rat Colony
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Swarm of Rats
• 1x Twisted Sewer-Witch
• 1x Voracious Vermin
• 1x Wave of Rats

Instant (8)

• 1x Death Denied
• 1x Defile
• 1x Plumb the Forbidden
• 1x Sheoldred's Edict
• 1x Sudden Spoiling
• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Village Rites
• 1x Wail of the Nim

Artifact (14)

• 1x Bontu's Monument
• 1x Caged Sun
• 1x Cloak and Dagger
• 1x Heraldic Banner
• 1x Icon of Ancestry
• 1x Lashwrithe
• 1x Nightmare Lash
• 1x Patchwork Banner
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Vanquisher's Banner
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Crippling Fear
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Gruesome Fate
• 1x Mire in Misery
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Plague of Vermin
• 1x Return from Extinction
• 1x Sign in Blood

Commander (1)

Land (32)

• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1x Ghost Quarter
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Quicksand
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 24x Swamp
• 1x Swarmyard
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Haunted One

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Creature (11)

• 1x Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• 1x Bloodline Pretender
• 1x Crashing Drawbridge
• 1x Crowd of Cinders
• 1x Defiler of Flesh
• 1x Lord Skitter's Butcher
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Ossuary Rats
• 1x Pestilence Rats
• 1x Species Specialist
• 1x Typhoid Rats

Instant (8)

• 1x Cast Down
• 1x Dash Hopes
• 1x Doom Blade
• 1x Force of Despair
• 1x Foul-Tongue Shriek
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Rat Out
• 1x Withering Boon

Land (3)

• 1x Leechridden Swamp
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Kindred Dominance
• 1x Mutilate
• 1x Pact of the Serpent
• 1x Smallpox

Artifact (4)

• 1x Horn of the Mark
• 1x Patriar's Seal
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Thrumming Stone

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Rat Tribal EDH

Combos:

• Ayara, First of Locthwain + Marrow-Gnawer - Any rat tokens will trigger Ayara, growing exponentially
• Ayara, First of Locthwain + Plague of Vermin - Pay X life to gain it back immediately and drain life from all opponents when the tokens come into play
• Ayara, First of Locthwain + Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Marrow-Gnawer - Generates a token every turn which triggers Ayara and can be used as a sacrifice to Marrow-Gnawer for faster token generation
• Haunted One + Marrow-Gnawer - Every time Marrow-Gnawer triggers their sacrifice effect all rat creatures get +2/+0 and undying until end of turn
• Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff - Infinite Rat Tokens
• Crypt Rats + Ogre Slumlord - deathtouch lets crypt rats kill everything on the board and then replace all non-token creatures with fresh rat tokens
• Marrow-Gnawer + Wave of Rats - On a successful hit, Wave of Rats can be sacrificed to Marrow-Gnawer to immediately and repeatedly bring it + rat tokens back to the battlefield
• Twisted Sewer-Witch - token generator and anti-board wipe tech, plus Marrow-Gnawer, Arya, Chittering Witch, Piper of the Swarm, or Village Rites can all trigger the wicked role tokens at instant speed
• Crowd of Cinders - black permanents include rat tokens AND has it's own built-in evasion with fear
• Voracious Vermin - Grows naturally with all of the tokens + sac outlets in the deck. i.e. Chittering Witch, Piper of the Swarm, Marrow-Gnawer, Arya, or Village Rites
• Cloak and Dagger - works as free protection for Marrow-Gnawer, Ogre Slumlord or Ratcatcher

Date added	6 years
Last updated	8 months
Key combos	Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff Crypt Rats + Ogre Slumlord Ayara, First of Locthwain + Plague of Vermin Ayara, First of Locthwain + Marrow-Gnawer Ayara, First of Locthwain + Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Marrow-Gnawer Haunted One + Marrow-Gnawer Marrow-Gnawer + Wave of Rats
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	1 - 0 Mythic Rares 26 - 0 Rares 18 - 0 Uncommons 31 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.84
Tokens	Copy Clone, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Rat 1/1 B, Rat 1/1 B w/ Can't Block, Wicked
Folders	EDH Decks, ratcommendations, Rats
Based on	Vermintide (EDH Rats) Panzerforge EDH