Vren, the Relentless is a Dimir (blue/black) commander first released in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Bloomburrow set. It offers a unique tওake on a Rat Commander deck, focusing more on controlling the battlefield and gaining Rats by doing so rather than going all-in with a ton of Rat creatures.

If you're looking to play a Vren, the Relentless deck, expect to be counꦕtering a lot of spells and removing a lot of creatures. A Vren, the Relentless Commander deck is a hard control deck, shutting off your opponents' resources while you slowly amass a battlefield. If you're planning on building it, expect to beꦅcome the enemy at the table.

Sample Decklist

The deck plays a total of 16 creatures, ten sorceries, 27 instants, eight artifacts, four enchantments, and 34 lands. Since Vren, the Relentless makes creatures on its own, the creature count is very low in favor of interaction and ways to trigge༒r it.

What Are The Key Cards?

Vren, the Relentless

The commander of the deck, Vren, the Relentless is the heart and soul of the deck. It always wants to be on the battlefield, and it can keep itself safe thanks to its ward ability to make it even harder to remove.

Vren's effect triggers every end step, not just your own. So, if a creature dies in combat and gets exiled with﷽ Vren's passive ability, you'll get Rats for each creature that died that turn, even if you had nothing to do with it.

Once on the battlefield, it turns all creatures getting exiled into 1/1 Rat tokens that gain stats for each other Rat on the battlefield. Vren can create a ton of tokens quickly, largely thanks to the plethora of cards in the deck that force 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:opponents to sacrifice creatures, netting you a guaranteed three Rats assuming all of your opponents have at♍ least one creature.

Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer is a way to easily turn your Rat tokens into win conditions. By sacrificing one Rat, you can double the number of Rats you control. While these don't have the stat-boosting effect the the tokens Vren creates, it will still boost Vren tokens, since they care about how many Rats you control.

Marrow-Gnawer's passive ability to give your Rats fear is great too. This makes it so they can't be blocked except by artifact and black creatures. If your op♚ponents don't have either of those, your Rats can attack for guaranteed damage and since they'll likely have massive stats, it's possible to win the game off of one combat phase.

Kindred Discovery

Since you're playing a control deck, you'll always want to make sure you have interaction in your hand. Kindred Discovery is a way to get a lot of extra card draws to ensure you do. It triggers off 🐈of both attacks and Rats entering the battlefield, making it capable of drawing a ton of cards in one 🍎turn.

It is a bit costly in mana, but the investment is worth taking off a turn to cast it since it provides you with so much card advantage. If creatures are dying on your opponents' turns, Kindred Discovery fills your hand for when you start your turn since you don't have to discard for hand size until your end step.

Toxrill, The Corrosive

Toxrill, the Corrosive is the best support card to be on the battlefield alongside Vren. Not only does it give you more of a board presence by getting Slug tokens, but it'll also l𒉰et you draw cards if you're running💝 low on them in your hand.

Since both Vren and Toxrill activate at the same time, you can choose in which order they resolv🤡e. M༺ake sure you stack it so Toxrill's effect goes off first, as this can increase the number of creatures exiled when Vren's effect resolves.

Toxrill puts slime counters on all creatures you don't control each end step, so it's very easy to get multiple creatures dying each end step, triggering Vren to make a ton of Rats that'll have a clear line of attack once you actually start your next turn after the comb♑o gets going.

Grave Pact

Grave Pact makes it so no one will want to remove any of your creatures, either through a removal spell or in combat. It causes every other player to have to sacrifice a creature, so even if only one creatur𓄧e dies, everyone has to sacrifice a creature.

Grave Pact triggers off of every creature dying, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:meaning if a board wipe happens and any creature remains, Grave Pact will still make them sacrifice. If Vren stuck to the battlefield, it'll also convert all those creature deaths (and getting exiled) into aꦚ ton of Rat tokens to easily rebuild your battlefield.

Ogre Slumlord

Ogre Slumlord synergizes amazingly with everything a Vren, the Relentless Commander deck wants to do. It triggers off of any nontoken creature dying, meaning with how many creatures you'll be removing you'll be🍌 getting Rat tokens from both Ogre Slumlord 🧔and Vren.

Ogre Slumlord also gives all your Rats deathtouch, making them very threatening blockers, and they'll kill any creature they block. This willꦬ cause an opponent's creature to die and give you more creature deaths for Ogre Slumlord and Vren to see to make even more tokens.

How To Play The Deck

Control, control, control. The name of Vren's game is preventing your opponents from being able to do anything. If any spell is cast that threatens Vren, the Relentless specifically, that's what you'll 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:want to use your counterspells on.

You generally want to save your targeted removal for powerful creatures that may cause a problem for you because they're too strong or are giving your opponent an advantage with its effect. For forced sacrifice, it's best used when each opponent has a creature so that Vren will create three Rat tokens.

It's best to wait to st꧑art forcing your opponents to sacrifice creatures once Vren is on the battlefield. While you can do it without, they won't ha💞ve enough impact to be worth it.

Generally, you want to use 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:instant speed removal spells on your opponents' turn, since so long as Vren sticks around for the end step, you'll still make tokens. The one exception would be if one creature is shutting down your ability to deal a large burst of damage.

The deck is a bit on the slow side since Dimir struggles to efficiently ramp. Once you have multiple mana rocks and lands on the battlefield, you can quickly snowball. However, there aren't many ways to start setting up defenses early, so don't be afraid to use your removal if you're getting targeted early.

The win condition of the deck is winning through combat. This is accomplished by amassing an army of Rat tokens generated by Vren so t🎃hey have massive stats with how many Rat🌳s you'll have, and then swing in at your opponents for large amounts of damage while removing any hurdles with removal.