Sasuke, the Rat Boi

Commander / EDH

ErnieSpratt

Land (37)

• 1x Aether Hub
• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Canopy Vista
• 1x Cinder Glade
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 2x Forest
• 1x Grasslands
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Krosan Verge
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 2x Mountain
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 2x Plains
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Sacred Foundry
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Tainted Peak
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vivid Marsh
• 1x Windswept Heath

Creature (34)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Brawn
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Eternal Witness
• 1x Garna, the Bloodflame
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Ogre Slumlord
• 1x Pack Rat
• 20x Rat Colony
• 1x Ratcatcher
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Viscera Seer

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip
• 1x Aura Shards
• 1x Bloodbond March
• 1x Experimental Frenzy
• 1x Greater Good
• 1x Nantuko Shrine
• 1x Path of Discovery
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Artifact (3)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Commander (1)

Sorcery (10)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Cathartic Reunion
• 1x Diabolic Intent
• 1x Driven / Despair
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Immortal Servitude
• 1x Jarad's Orders
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Tormenting Voice
• 1x Vindicate

Instant (6)

• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Chaos Warp
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Eladamri's Call
• 1x Rally the Ancestors
• 1x Shred Memory

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My 4-color Rat Colony creature beats deck that I built because every other "Rat Deck" is either a Marrow-Gnawer deck, or a Meren of Clan Nel Toth deck.

This one is helmed by Saskia the Unyielding as an upgrade from my previous Kresh the Bloodbraided and can pack a hell of a punch with minimum setup. Just a couple of rats on the board and a right name under Saskia could allow you wreak considerable havoc on the battlefield if nothing else.

Gameplan encompasses elements of

• Graveyard recursion of
• Haste enabling, and hand filtering of
• And graveyard recursion shenanigans and "squirrel stuff" of

Disclaimer:

This is a "graveyard deck", but among regular graveyard hate this strat would also surprisingly be hosed by stuff like Lost Legacy, Extirpate/Surgical Extraction. Which nobody in their sane mind plays in commander, but it's still out there.

Disclaimer № 2:

The deck's biggest weakness is an almost complete lack of ramp. There's just simply no place for it, with the manacurve showing a big fat middle finger with it's 30-ish two drops. Best solution to this problem that I could find was to just try really hard to curve out with rats and action as much as possible on the early turns, and draw into or tutor for your draw engines to compensate for the lack of ramp with consistent land drops. This plan could however be very taxing for proper 4-color manabase. This one is heavily skewed towards black and could definitely use some non-budget upgrades.

Important mentions

• Bloodbond March is basically the thing that justifies branching off to other colours.
• Nantuko Shrine is another kinky card that can only be used in a "Rat deck"
• Mirror Entity is an actual win on a stick if you untap with your creatures, which justifies running white. Also:
• Sun Titan = Best Titan
• Red cantrips allow you to dig for engines as well as fill your graveyard
• Rally the Ancestors and Immortal Servitude set up an alpha strike.
• Some of the card draw engines like Experimental Frenzy, Phyrexian Arena and Arguel's Bloodfast can be tuned in or out.
• Earlier versions of the deck included Stalking Vengeance and Warstorm Surge which I found extremely unwieldy and clunky as wincons in the process of playtesting.
• Reveillark and Karmic Guide also felt like an Odd Ones Out couple, and even though white elemental from Lorwyn can technically bring out two rats with it's LTB trigger (among other things), I've never felt the urge to cast it, or his angel buddy.
• The deck can be further tuned by upgrading the tutors (which I'm not a fan of in general, so I just run the weird bad ones).

Date added	5 years
Last updated	5 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	3 - 0 Mythic Rares 35 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 31 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.70
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Copy Clone, Morph 2/2 C, Rat 1/1 B, Squirrel 1/1 G