Rat Nasty

by jpickavance on 25 February 2013

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How to Play

The Ogre Slumlords are pretty critical. That is why I've included 2x Mask of Avacyn. Basically though, as the title suggests you'll want to mass rats and if everything goes according to plan you'll get an Ogre Slumlord out (or 2) and hopefully be able to get the Mask's on them to avoid being target's of spells. After that your rats will have deathtouch and every time one of them dies they'll most likely bring another creature with them. After both creatures die, you'll get 2x 1/1 rat tokens and they'll of course have deathtouch also.

The oddball in this deck is definitely the High Priest but I've included him mainly to be able to pump out the 5/5 demons if it gets late in the game.

Possible switch outs would be the Tribute to Hunger, depending on what kind of deck you're playing against since you don't get to choose what they sacrifice. Either way, they have to get rid of a card which is nice regardless and you get the health for it. It does suck though that you can't get rid of a more powerful card of your choosing.

Regardless, open to suggestion - as always.

Deck Tags

  • Rats
  • Rats
  • Black
  • Swamp
  • Deathtouch

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

003700

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Rat Nasty

I would suggest putting a few more swamp to even out your mana curve, maybe even a extra creature or 20.

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Posted 25 February 2013 at 23:53

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I can't tell if your entire comment is sarcasm or not. I feel like 23 lands is plenty for the majority of this deck. And more creatures?? The only thing I would possibly want to add would be 2x Ogre Slumlords to make it a total of 4, and 3x Typhoid Rats, but I feel like it's set up pretty good as is. We're playing after work, I'll let you know.

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Posted 26 February 2013 at 00:25

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Well I like this deck now. The first time I looked at it there was nothing in the deck at all. So to begin with my comment was sarcasm, but the deck looks good!

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Posted 12 March 2013 at 02:14

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Hahaha okay, now I feel like a jerk. Lol it is pretty good though, it's flows well, especially when I get some Slumlords out.

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Posted 15 March 2013 at 00:57

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Pretty cool deck, have you considered trying to add more Skirsdag priests as well as a combo of Desciple of Grisleband and Wall of Bone combo? This is a pretty heavily themed rat deck, but it almost relies too much on Ogre Slumlord. Oh yeah, and I'd replace Dead Weight with Stab Wound, but that's just preference. It forces them to lose 2 life each upkeep as long as you sit there and don't attack, or ofcourse attack with unblockables per gruesome deformity or whispersilk cloak on a beefy pack rat. Basically you can force your opponent into trying to kill a creature marked with a stab wound, which works in your favor when you have the morbid effect of Skirsdag Priest and Ogre Slumlord to account for. To make room for any cards I'd drop the number on Gutter Skulks or Drainpipe Vermin (Ogre Slumlord is useful enough in beefing up Pack Rat) Also, I think your oddball is probably creepy doll, but to each his own. But yeah, I'd add more Skirsdag and just lose some rats in favor of cards that work better with death triggers, seeing as how great Slumlord is. Maybe 2 Crypt Ghasts would be good, double your mana pool as well as give you extort to work with when you have spare mana (which will happen a bit I assume with so many low cost cards) Also probably don't need doom blade or victim of the night, but that's debatable.

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Posted 21 August 2013 at 08:06

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I like this suggestion. I am going to research it a bit more and check it out. Also, the Creepy Doll is definitely the oddball. I found the card in my collection while I was making the deck and decided I wanted to use it haha.

Thank you for the suggestion!

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Posted 04 October 2013 at 20:11

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UPDATE: Got all of the cards that I needed to update this deck. 3x Skirsdag, 2x Stab Wounds, 3x Whispersilks, 2x Wall of Bone. It is the first deck that I've got now to actually compete against my Goblin Deck. Good lookin out!

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Posted 30 October 2013 at 18:27

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