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Just a Mono Black Rat deck I attempted to make for casual play. Built this around the Rat Colony card.If you have any recommendations on how to tweak this deck. Feel free to comment. I'm always looking for better ideas.
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If you want to play a little more aggressive Rat Colony and Swarm of Rats could be useful. Typhoid Rats can serve as indirect removal, while Doom Blade can take the direct treats your opponent puts on the field. Last Bad Moon could be used to strengthen all your rats a little more.
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You've got two deck ideas kind of meshed together here instead of one coherent theme: the rats and discard. None of your rats help with the discard, and you don't really have enough discard going to justify it or its support mechanics, so I'd suggest cutting that alltogether. Undercity Plague is just too expensive and too conditional to justify, as it will take forever to cast, requires a creature to imprint on, is only useful with connected damage, and is lost when the critter is lost. So, a single lightning bolt takes away more than half its efficacy, as well as being a +0 exchange with tempo. You're much better off with something you can play quickly that gives you good value.Behind the Scenes is actually counterproductive in this build, as Skulk works extremely poorly with Rat Colony (which pumps itself up), and you can't take advantage of the boost because you're not running white. I'd suggest cutting it.Rancid Rats is a little too underpowered for what it's giving, especially since you get almost the same thing with Typhoid Rats, and deattouch is a deterrent to blocking in the first place, making the Skulk angle less important.You can also get away with fewer lands, as your curve is very low, though the lack of one-drops means you're always playing down a turn against fast decks, but since it's for casual that probably doesn't matter.Overall, I'd suggest the following:-Hypnotic Specter-Undercity Plague-Wrench Mind-Behind the Scenes-Waste Not-Rancid Rats+Karumonix, the Rat King+Persistent Marshstalker+Tangled Colony+Rat Out
Karumonix is an absolute blessing for any rat themed deck. Not only does giving all rats Toxic 1 really make players sweat bullets, but the ETB trigger is also amazing if you stock the deck full of rats.
No joke, MASSIVE card advantage potential in a deck that wants to run as many rats as possible. And since you already have 3 lands when you play him, the lands you put on the bottom help you, on top of everything else. What's not to love about this silly card.