Summary

• The Rats in Magic: The Gathering are like reality's tiny swarms, spreading disease and extinction in their wake.
• Rat creature types in MTG excel in strategy, featuring graveyard synergies, reducing hand sizes, and mass attacks.
• Legendary Rats like Vren, Greasefang, and Marrow-Gnawer offer unique abilities to swarm the battlefield and dominate opponents.

Same as reality, the Rats of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering are the tiny beasts we associate most with swarms and plagues. The king of vermin, they are responsible for not only spreading disease but ca🦋using many extinctions in the aꦐvian and reptile world. They are nearly impossible to contain and highly intelligent, featuring physiological and neural capacities similar to humans.

Despite all oꦯf this, they make for great pets — especially for the MTG Commander player! In the realms of strategy, the Rat creature type swarms tokens onto the battlefield, attack with menace or fear, discard cards, and even reduce hand sizes. Rat commanders feature graveyard synergies and mass attacks that will leave your opponents as nothing more than a pile of bon🌊es. Oh, and some are ninjas too!

Updated August 16, 2024, by Sean Murray: There are so many more legendary Rats thanks to the release of Bloomburrow and Wilds of Eldraine that we just had to update this list to include them.

11 🍎 Patron Of The Nezumi

A god for all the non-atheist rats out there

Patron of the Nezumi is not a Rat themselves — they are the God the non-atheistic Rats pray to. Thus, this Legendary Spirit creature can flash onto the battlefield with a sacrifice. Any opposing permanents you can destroy, sacrifice, or otherwise consume with your Rat horde will continuously ping players for one damage each.

Needless to say, that kind of damage can add up over time. Steeply costed at seven mana, Patron of the Nezumi needs heavy black mana production and non-token Rats to offer up. Protect the Patron and build up an army for communal sacrifice. This commander and the legendary dementia caster and permanent-🦂sacrificer Braids make for a great duo (that goes for all Rat commanders, in fact).

10 🥂 Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Rats on motorcycles to terrify the night streets

Greasefang, Okiba Boss is your resident Rat Pilot, a neon energy biker perfect for an Orzhov (white and black) Vehicle deck. Create your Rat biker gang with heavy-duty ships to crew, such as High-Speed Hoverbike, Smuggler’s Copter, Surgehacker Mech, Necron Monolith, and even the Vehicle mothership that is Parhelion II. Greasefang can retrieve them all from the graveyard when they end up there, by destruཧction or mill.

Rats are perfect for Vehicles because the major drawback of the latter is the constant need for creatures to tap and animate them into combat, on attack or defense. Your Rats can provide the crew costs to send off your fleet each combat.

Pair Greasefang with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Peacewalker Colossus and make your peace by wiping everyone else out.

9 Lord Skitter, Sewer King 🐟

All hail the king!

Swarm tactics are a staple of Rat decks. Lord Skitter, Sewer King produces a new 1/1 Rat at the beginning of combat on each of your turns. That's a new rat every turn Lord Skitter survives. That's not exactly earth-shattering in terms of power, but our liege Lord provides a cheap and reliable source of Rats.

And there's a lot you can do with a few Rat tokens. Vren has already given us a means of turning a few Rats into an overwhelming force, but black has always been able to turn life into power. Sacrifice a few Rat tokens to Skullclamp or Village Rites for a few cards, and then trigger some damage and life gain with Zulaport Cutthroat or Blood Artist.

8 Vrꦅen, the Relentless

The Relentless Rat generator

Bloomburrow brings us Vren, the Relentless. The name is certainly descriptive as Vren produces a token 1/1 Rat for every opposing creature that dies. The kicker is that each of these tokens gets +1/+1 for every Rat you control, harkening to the ability first showcased on the card Relentless Rats.

Vren is a powerhouse commander. In a deck with plenty of kill spells (easy to do thanks to Vren's black mana), you can wind up with an army of not-quite Relentless Rats while your opponents are tearfully pitching their beloved creatures into their graveyards. Throw in a few more Rat token generators like Piper of the Swarm or Ogre Slumlord and get ready to overrun the table with Rats.

7 Wick, the Whorled Mind 🔜

Rats and Snails, together at last

Most Rat commanders want you to play as many Rats as possible. Wick does too, but rather than buffing your army of Rats like so many other Rat commanders, Wick makes a Snail and then gives it more and more +1/+1 counters as more Rats enter the battlefield. Eventually, you'll be able to sacrifice this Snail to deal a bunch of damage to each opponent and draw an equal number of cards.

An explosive Snail that draws cards is certainly unique for a Rat-themed deck, but you can't really argue with the additional cards. Plus, Wick's ability brings blue and red Rats into the fold, greatly expanding your Rat army and your ꧑potential spell options. Impact Tremors would certainly ﷽add some bite to any Rat deck.

6 Ink-Eye💎s, Serv𒊎ant Of Oni

The original ninja Rat

The original Kamigawa sets from 2004 to 2005 launched many Rats and Ninja into the game of Magic. And Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni, the legendary Rat Ninja that favors graveyard recursion, is thus one of the most important creatu♔res of the type e♛ver printed. Wayne Reynolds expressive art showcases a duel-wielding killer beast with smoky red eyes, hungry for unlife.

She's destined for a ninjutsu deck that can get your opponent’s bruisers into the graveyard. Ink-Eyes can even protect h♋erself through regeneration and provid♏es a hefty five power. Surround Ink-Eyes with discard effects to fill graveyards, and then deploy lieutenants like Ogre Slumlord and Piper of the Swarm to unlock your Rat shinobi assault.

5 ๊ Nashi, Moon Sage’s Scion

A cyberpunk Rat for a cyberpunk future

Nashi, Moon Mage’s Scion is a Mono Black Control player’s dream. Make the wicked electro tinkerer unblockable with Whispersilk Cloak or Rogue’s Passage and prepare to cast your favorite spell off the top of any player’s deck, paid in blo🐬od. This hi-tech Rat Ninja uses life to steal effects right out from underneath your opposition.

Pitch-perfect synergy exists between Nashi and cards like Scheming Symmetry, Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire, and the wretchedly terrifying Brainstealer Dragon. Utilize the drawback of paying life by deploying enchantments like Exquisite Blood and Font of Agonies. The legendary Demon — Vilis, Broker of Blood — can go mꦏeteoric with ni꧃gh unstoppable card advantage from every top-of-deck cast.

Just don’t forget your Loxodon Warhammer, Whip of Erebos, and other life-gain effects befor🔥e you embark on Nashi’s bloody𓃲 quest to steal the show at your Commander table.

4 🌜 Karumonix, the Rat King ✅

Do not hail this toxic king

Poison counters have always been a very strong mechanic in Commander. It's often easier to administer 10 poison counters to an opponent than to deal 40 damage, and it gets even easier to administer 10 poison counters when you have an army of toxic Rats.

Karumonix, the Rat King, is extremely efficient at just three mana and gives every single Rat you control a bit of poison. Being nibbled for one damage by a single 1/1 Rat is often so inconsequential that it can be ignored, but even a few Rats dealing damage in the form of poison counters can be a real threat. Add on Karumonix's ability to refill your hand with Rats, and you've got a stellar Rat commander.

3 ✱ Ashcoat Of The Shadow Swarm

Big Rats milling for more Rats

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm is a Rat from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jumpstart 2022. This Legendary Rat Warlock appears to have unlocked the full power of the Rat! He immediately makes his mark as one of the top choices for a tribal Rat commander deck. Every time Ashcoat attacks or blocks, he empowers every other Rat you control with +X/+X equal to the Rats you c𒉰ontrol. If le𝕴ft unchecked, this vermin-based mini-Craterhoof won’t even take that many Rats to win you the game.

The strategy is pretty simple: make as many Rats as you can and get into the red zone with attacks from all of them. However, Ashcoat will eventually need evasion in the form of fear, menace, or unblockability to survive such attacks (he does not gain the boost himself). Additionally, Ashcoat’s other mill ability enables access to black’s many graveyard returns, or metallic food for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Trazyn the Infinite to use.

2 Nashi, Moon's Legacy

The past is present with this Rat Shaman

One of the best new Rat commanders to come out of the Phyrexian Invasion block is Nashi, Moon's Legacy. Nashi's new form allows him to cast copies of Rats or other legendaries from the graveyard rather than pay life to cast spells from other players' libraries. Nashi also drops the ninjitsu keyword in favor of menace and ward.

But the real boon to Nashi, Moon's Legacy is bringing in green and blue mana to any potential deck. Most Rats are black, but a growing number have a splash of blue 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:since the release of Bloomburrow. Plus, who wouldn't want green's mana ramping spells in addition to the incredibly potent graveℱyard manipulation possꦅible with Golgari colors?