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Rat Swarm
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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 (plst) CHK-124

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Innocuous Rat

When Innocuous Rat dies, manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Creature
Innocuous Rat (dsk) 103
Lord Skitter's Butcher

When Lord Skitter's Butcher enters, choose one — • Create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." • You may sacrifice another creature. If you do, scry 2, then draw a card. • Creatures you control gain menace until end of turn.

Creature
Lord Skitter's Butcher (woe) 99
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 creature can't block."

Creature
Lord Skitter, Sewer King (woe) 97
Nezumi Bladeblesser

Nezumi Bladeblesser has deathtouch as long as you control an artifact. Nezumi Bladeblesser has menace as long as you control an enchantment. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)

Creature
Nezumi Bladeblesser (neo) 115
Tangled Colony

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

Creature
Tangled Colony (woe) 113
Twisted Sewer-Witch

When Twisted Sewer-Witch enters, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." Then for each Rat you control, create a Wicked Role token attached to that Rat. (If you control another Role on it, put that one into the graveyard. Enchanted creature gets +1/+1. When this Aura is put into a graveyard, each opponent loses 1 life.)

Creature
Twisted Sewer-Witch (woe) 114
Voracious Vermin

When Voracious Vermin enters, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This creature can't block." Whenever another creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Voracious Vermin.

Creature
Voracious Vermin (woe) 116

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Discard

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Burglar Rat

When this creature enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Burglar Rat (rvr) 69
Nezumi Informant

When Nezumi Informant enters, each opponent discards a card.

Creature
Nezumi Informant (mom) 120
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 Pack Rat.

Creature
Pack Rat (rvr) 455

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Drain

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Foul-Tongue Shriek

Target opponent loses 1 life for each attacking creature you control. You gain that much life.

Instant
Foul-Tongue Shriek (dtk) 103
Gruesome Fate

Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature you control.

Sorcery
Gruesome Fate (plst) RIX-75
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Valley Rotcaller

Menace Whenever Valley Rotcaller attacks, each opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of other Squirrels, Bats, Lizards, and Rats you control.

Creature
Valley Rotcaller (blb) 119

Drain

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Draw

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Ayara, First of Locthwain

Whenever Ayara, First of Locthwain 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
Chittering Skitterling

Corrupted — Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Draw a card. Activate only if an opponent has three or more poison counters and only once each turn.

Creature
Chittering Skitterling (one) 87
Corrupted Conviction

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards.

Instant
Corrupted Conviction (otj) 84
Eviscerator's Insight

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards. Flashback {4}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost and any additional costs. Then exile it.)

Instant
Eviscerator's Insight (mh3) 93
Idol of Oblivion

{T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you created a token this turn. {8}, {T}, Sacrifice Idol of Oblivion: Create a 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token.

Artifact
Idol of Oblivion (blc) 277
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
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Ninjutsu {3}{B} ({3}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Whenever Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of each player's library. Until end of turn, you may play one of those cards. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than paying its mana cost.

Creature
Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion (neo) 114
Skullclamp

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

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
Wave of Rats

Trample When Wave of Rats 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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Evasion

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Rancid Rats

Skulk (This creature can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Rancid Rats (soi) 130

Evasion

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Instant

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Bitter Triumph

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Bitter Triumph (lci) 91

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Land

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Mortuary Mire

Mortuary Mire enters tapped. When Mortuary Mire enters, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Mortuary Mire (j22) 817
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 281
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (mkm) 281
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (dft) 284
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

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Lifegain

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Mukotai Ambusher

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) Lifelink

Creature Artifact
Mukotai Ambusher (neo) 112

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Mill

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Gnawing Vermin

When Gnawing Vermin enters, target player mills two cards. When Gnawing Vermin dies, target creature you don't control gets -1/-1 until end of turn.

Creature
Gnawing Vermin (bro) 101

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Proliferate

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Blightbelly Rat

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) When Blightbelly Rat dies, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Blightbelly Rat (one) 85

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Protection

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Battle-Rage Blessing

Target creature gains deathtouch and indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Battle-Rage Blessing (dmu) 80
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
Malakir Rebirth

Instant
Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire (znr) 111
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 (lcc) 314

Protection

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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 (lcc) 299
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (atq) 38
Dark Ritual

Add {B}{B}{B}.

Instant
Dark Ritual (plst) DDE-18
Patriar's Seal

{T}: Add one mana of any color. {1}, {T}: Untap target legendary creature you control.

Artifact
Patriar's Seal (clb) 332
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (lcc) 313

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Recursion

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Agadeem's Awakening

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

Put any number of target creature cards from your graveyard on top of your library. Draw a card.

Instant
Gravepurge (plst) DTK-104
Persistent Marshstalker

Persistent Marshstalker 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 Persistent Marshstalker from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped and attacking.

Creature
Persistent Marshstalker (blb) 104
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278
Wake the Dead

Cast this spell only during combat on an opponent's turn. Return X target creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield. Sacrifice those creatures at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Wake the Dead (cmm) 197

Recursion

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Removal

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Cast Down

Destroy target nonlegendary creature.

Instant
Cast Down (clb) 119
Consuming Corruption

Consuming Corruption deals X damage to target creature or planeswalker and you gain X life, where X is the number of Swamps you control.

Instant
Consuming Corruption (mh3) 84
Debt to the Kami

Choose one — • Target opponent exiles a creature they control. • Target opponent exiles an enchantment they control.

Instant
Debt to the Kami (neo) 92
Extract the Truth

Choose one — • Target opponent reveals their hand. You may choose a creature, enchantment, or planeswalker card from it. That player discards that card. • Target opponent sacrifices an enchantment of their choice.

Sorcery
Extract the Truth (snc) 78
Final Vengeance

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Exile target creature.

Sorcery
Final Vengeance (dsk) 99
Kindred Dominance

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

Sorcery
Kindred Dominance (woc) 113
Nezumi Prowler

Ninjutsu {1}{B} ({1}{B}, Return an unblocked attacker you control to hand: Put this card onto the battlefield from your hand tapped and attacking.) When Nezumi Prowler enters, target creature you control gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn.

Creature Artifact
Nezumi Prowler (neo) 116
Power Word Kill

Destroy target non-Angel, non-Demon, non-Devil, non-Dragon creature.

Instant
Power Word Kill (afr) 114
Ruin Rat

Deathtouch When Ruin Rat dies, exile target card from an opponent's graveyard.

Creature
Ruin Rat (plst) HOU-75
Season of Loss

Choose up to five {P} worth of modes. You may choose the same mode more than once. {P} — Each player sacrifices a creature of their choice. {P}{P} — Draw a card for each creature that died under your control this turn. {P}{P}{P} — Each opponent loses X life, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard.

Sorcery
Season of Loss (blb) 112
Swarmyard Massacre

Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Then each creature that isn't an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each creature you control that's an Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel.

Sorcery
Swarmyard Massacre (blc) 20
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277
Typhoid Rats

Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.)

Creature
Typhoid Rats (j22) 480
Withering Torment

Destroy target creature or enchantment. You lose 2 life.

Instant
Withering Torment (dsk) 124

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Tokens

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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 (cmm) 177
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

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Tutor

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Hoarding Broodlord

Convoke Flying When Hoarding Broodlord enters, search your library for a card, exile it face down, then shuffle. For as long as that card remains exiled, you may play it. Spells you cast from exile have convoke.

Creature
Hoarding Broodlord (mom) 110
Insatiable Avarice

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {2} — Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. + {B}{B} — Target player draws three cards and loses 3 life.

Sorcery
Insatiable Avarice (otj) 91
Lively Dirge

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. + {2} — Return up to two creature cards with total mana value 4 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Lively Dirge (otj) 93

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Untap

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Magewright's Stone

{1}, {T}: Untap target creature that has an activated ability with {T} in its cost.

Artifact
Magewright's Stone (plst) DIS-162
Thousand-Year Elixir

You may activate abilities of creatures you control as though those creatures had haste. {1}, {T}: Untap target creature.

Artifact
Thousand-Year Elixir (c21) 271

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Sideboard

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Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (snc) 79
Murder

Destroy target creature.

Instant
Murder (mkm) 95
Undying Malice

Until end of turn, target creature gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control with a +1/+1 counter on it."

Instant
Undying Malice (vow) 134

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Maybeboard

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Assassin's Ink

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control an artifact and {1} less to cast if you control an enchantment. Destroy target creature or planeswalker.

Instant
Assassin's Ink (neo) 87
Call to the Void

Each player secretly chooses a creature they control and a creature they don't control. Then those choices are revealed. Destroy each creature chosen this way.

Sorcery
Call to the Void (clb) 118
Deadly Cover-Up

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may collect evidence 6. Destroy all creatures. If evidence was collected, exile a card from an opponent's graveyard. Then search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Sorcery
Deadly Cover-Up (mkm) 83
Deathbringer Regent

Flying When Deathbringer Regent enters, if you cast it from your hand and there are five or more other creatures on the battlefield, destroy all other creatures.

Creature
Deathbringer Regent (j22) 396
Gutter Skulk

Creature
Gutter Skulk (gtc) 67
Hall of Triumph

As Hall of Triumph enters, choose a color. Creatures you control of the chosen color get +1/+1.

Artifact
Hall of Triumph (jou) 162
Ichor Shade

At the beginning of your end step, if an artifact or creature was put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn, put a +1/+1 counter on Ichor Shade.

Creature
Ichor Shade (mom) 112
Infected Vermin

{2}{B}: Infected Vermin deals 1 damage to each creature and each player. Threshold — {3}{B}: Infected Vermin deals 3 damage to each creature and each player. Activate only if seven or more cards are in your graveyard.

Creature
Infected Vermin (ody) 144
Ornithopter of Paradise

Flying {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Creature Artifact
Ornithopter of Paradise (cmm) 966
Parasitic Impetus

Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.

Enchantment
Parasitic Impetus (clb) 140
Sinister Possession

Enchant creature Whenever enchanted creature attacks or blocks, its controller loses 2 life.

Enchantment
Sinister Possession (dgm) 29
The Dross Pits

The Dross Pits enters tapped. {T}: Add {B}. {1}{B}, {T}, Sacrifice The Dross Pits: Draw a card.

Land
The Dross Pits (one) 251
Toxin Analysis

Target creature gains deathtouch and lifelink until end of turn. Investigate. (Create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Instant
Toxin Analysis (mkm) 107
Unlikely Aid

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Unlikely Aid (iko) 103

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