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Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
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Commander

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Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm

Whenever Ashcoat attacks or blocks, other Rats you control get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of Rats you control. At the beginning of your end step, you may mill four cards. If you do, return up to two Rat creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)

Creature
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm (j22) 19

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Finisher

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Breach the Multiverse

Each player mills ten cards. For each player, choose a creature or planeswalker card in that player's graveyard. Put those cards onto the battlefield under your control. Then each creature you control becomes a Phyrexian in addition to its other types.

Sorcery
Breach the Multiverse (mom) 94
Eldrazi Monument

Creatures you control get +1/+1 and have flying and indestructible. At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice a creature. If you can't, sacrifice this artifact.

Artifact
Eldrazi Monument (plst) CMA-216

Finisher

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (mkc) 125
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (mkc) 137

Recursion

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Creature

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Chittering Witch

When this creature enters, create a number of 1/1 black Rat creature tokens equal to the number of opponents you have. {1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.

Creature
Chittering Witch (afc) 95
Crashing Drawbridge

Defender {T}: Creatures you control gain haste until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Crashing Drawbridge (eld) 217
Crypt Rats

{X}: This creature deals X damage to each creature and each player. Spend only black mana on X.

Creature
Crypt Rats (j22) 392
Engine Rat

Deathtouch {5}{B}: Each opponent loses 2 life.

Creature
Engine Rat (dft) 84
Karumonix, the Rat King

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Other Rats you control have toxic 1. When Karumonix enters, look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal any number of Rat cards from among them and put the revealed cards into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature
Karumonix, the Rat King (one) 98
Lord Skitter, Sewer King

Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard. At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Massacre Girl, Known Killer

Menace Creatures you control have wither. (They deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, if its toughness was less than 1, draw a card.

Creature
Massacre Girl, Known Killer (mkm) 94
Ogre Slumlord

Whenever another nontoken creature dies, you may create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. Rats you control have deathtouch.

Creature
Ogre Slumlord (j22) 71
Pack Rat

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control. {2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of this creature.

Creature
Pack Rat (rtr) 73
Persistent Marshstalker

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. Threshold — Whenever you attack with one or more Rats, if seven or more cards are in your graveyard, you may pay {2}{B}. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Persistent Marshstalker (blb) 104
Rat Colony

This creature gets +1/+0 for each other Rat you control. A deck can have any number of cards named Rat Colony.

Creature
Rat Colony (dom) 101
Ruthless Radrat

Squad—Exile four cards from your graveyard. (As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may pay its squad cost any number of times. When this creature enters, create that many tokens that are copies of it.) Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Ruthless Radrat (pip) 48
Tangled Colony

This creature can't block. When this creature dies, create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens with "This token can't block," where X is the amount of damage dealt to it this turn.

Creature
Tangled Colony (woe) 113
Throat Slitter

Ninjutsu {2}{B} ({2}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, destroy target nonblack creature that player controls.

Creature
Throat Slitter (plst) BOK-88
Tribute to Horobi

Enchantment
Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail (neo) 124Tribute to Horobi // Echo of Death's Wail (neo) 124
Wave of Rats

Trample When this creature dies, if it dealt combat damage to a player this turn, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Blitz {4}{B} (If you cast this spell for its blitz cost, it gains haste and "When this creature dies, draw a card." Sacrifice it at the beginning of the next end step.)

Creature
Wave of Rats (ncc) 41

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Land

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Agadeem's Awakening

Sorcery
Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt (znr) 90
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (ths) 223
Path of Ancestry

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Land
Path of Ancestry (c17) 56
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (j22) 105
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Swarmyard (tsr) 284
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287

Land

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Removal

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Crippling Fear

Choose a creature type. Creatures that aren't of the chosen type get -3/-3 until end of turn.

Sorcery
Crippling Fear (khm) 82
Flare of Malice

You may sacrifice a nontoken black creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the greatest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Flare of Malice (mh3) 95
Kindred Dominance

Choose a creature type. Destroy all creatures that aren't of the chosen type.

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (c17) 18

Removal

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It is every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (acr) 87
Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Imperial Seal

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Sorcery
Imperial Seal (2x2) 79
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (c16) 271
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 697
Vampiric Tutor

Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Vampiric Tutor (dmr) 108

Draw

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Protection

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Commander's Plate

Equipped creature gets +3/+3 and has protection from each color that's not in your commander's color identity. Equip commander {3} Equip {5}

Artifact
Commander's Plate (cmr) 305
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (c20) 245
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Nightmare Shepherd

Flying Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's 1/1 and it's a Nightmare in addition to its other types.

Creature Enchantment
Nightmare Shepherd (dsc) 149
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (pw22) 4

Protection

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Utility

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Darkness

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn.

Instant
Darkness (40k) 197
Winter Moon

Players can't untap more than one nonbasic land during their untap steps.

Artifact
Winter Moon (mh3) 213

Utility

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Evasion

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Cover of Darkness

As this enchantment enters, choose a creature type. Creatures of the chosen type have fear. (They can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)

Enchantment
Cover of Darkness (acr) 89
Marrow-Gnawer

All Rats have fear. {T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.

Creature
Marrow-Gnawer (chk) 124
Piper of the Swarm

Rats you control have menace. {1}{B}, {T}: Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token. {2}{B}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice three Rats: Gain control of target creature.

Creature
Piper of the Swarm (afc) 106
Predators' Hour

Until end of turn, creatures you control gain menace and "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of that player's library face down. You may look at and play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell."

Sorcery
Predators' Hour (otc) 147

Evasion

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Ramp

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Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (onc) 125
Black Market

Whenever a creature dies, put a charge counter on this enchantment. At the beginning of your first main phase, add {B} for each charge counter on this enchantment.

Enchantment
Black Market (pip) 183
Bontu's Monument

Black creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever you cast a creature spell, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Artifact
Bontu's Monument (dmc) 179
Bubbling Muck

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps a Swamp for mana, that player adds an additional {B}.

Sorcery
Bubbling Muck (plst) UDS-54
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (mb2) 179
Extraplanar Lens

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile target land you control. Whenever a land with the same name as the exiled card is tapped for mana, its controller adds one mana of any type that land produced.

Artifact
Extraplanar Lens (cmm) 381
Herald's Horn

As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creature spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast. At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. If it's a creature card of the chosen type, you may reveal it and put it into your hand.

Artifact
Herald's Horn (lcc) 304
Jet Medallion

Black spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Jet Medallion (cmm) 395
Mesmeric Orb

Whenever a permanent becomes untapped, that permanent's controller mills a card.

Artifact
Mesmeric Orb (2xm) 272
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (clb) 871
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 28

Ramp

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Maybeboard

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Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara or another black creature you control enters, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. {T}, Sacrifice another black creature: Draw a card.

Creature
Ayara, First of Locthwain (eld) 75
Bolas's Citadel

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost. {T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.

Artifact
Bolas's Citadel (plg21) 3
Changeling Outcast

Changeling (This card is every creature type.) This creature can't block and can't be blocked.

Creature
Changeling Outcast (clb) 743
Chimil, the Inner Sun

Spells you control can't be countered. At the beginning of your end step, discover 5. (Exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card with mana value 5 or less. Cast it without paying its mana cost or put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.)

Artifact
Chimil, the Inner Sun (lci) 249
Crucible of Worlds

You may play lands from your graveyard.

Artifact
Crucible of Worlds (m19) 229
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Deadly Rollick

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Exile target creature.

Instant
Deadly Rollick (c20) 42
Echoing Return

Return target creature card and all other cards with the same name as that card from your graveyard to your hand.

Sorcery
Echoing Return (mh2) 83
Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (znr) 102
Haunted One

Commander creatures you own have "Whenever this creature becomes tapped, it and other creatures you control that share a creature type with it each get +2/+0 and gain undying until end of turn." (When a creature with undying dies, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it.)

Enchantment
Haunted One (clb) 654
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (pw21) 5
Oversold Cemetery

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have four or more creature cards in your graveyard, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Oversold Cemetery (dmr) 96
Patriarch's Bidding

Each player chooses a creature type. Each player returns all creature cards of a type chosen this way from their graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Patriarch's Bidding (mh2) 275
Plague of Vermin

Starting with you, each player may pay any amount of life. Repeat this process until no one pays life. Each player creates a 1/1 black Rat creature token for each 1 life they paid this way.

Sorcery
Plague of Vermin (shm) 73
Read the Bones

Scry 2, then draw two cards. You lose 2 life. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Sorcery
Read the Bones (ddp) 56
Roaming Throne

Ward {2} As this creature enters, choose a creature type. This creature is the chosen type in addition to its other types. If a triggered ability of another creature you control of the chosen type triggers, it triggers an additional time.

Creature Artifact
Roaming Throne (lci) 258
Sword of Wealth and Power

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from instants and from sorceries. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, create a Treasure token. When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Wealth and Power (big) 91
Thrumming Stone

Spells you cast have ripple 4. (Whenever you cast a spell, you may reveal the top four cards of your library. You may cast spells with the same name as that spell from among the revealed cards without paying their mana costs. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.)

Artifact
Thrumming Stone (2x2) 315
Void Mirror

Whenever a player casts a spell, if no colored mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Artifact
Void Mirror (mh2) 242

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Tokens & Extras

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Rat

This token can't block.

Creature Token
Rat (twoe) 7
Rat

Creature Token
Rat (totc) 8

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