Mono-black Token-Spam Death Payoffs built around Rat King, Pale Piper. How it wins: Using the absurd amount of rat tokens to generate enough card advantage, wipe the board and win with damage and potentially Rise of The Dark Realms Key roles: - Rat token generation: These cards churn out 1/1 Rats each turn or in bursts, feeding the commander's draw ability, the sac outlets and every Rat-count payoff (Marrow-Gnawer, Lord Skitter, Sewer King, Revenge of the Rats). - Sacrifice outlets and engines: Free altars turn creatures into mana, and draw equipment turns them into cards. Since nontoken creatures are replaced by Rats when they leave thanks to Rat King, Pale Piper, every sacrifice fuels more sacrifices (Ashnod's Altar, Phyrexian Altar, Skullclamp). - Death-trigger drain and lifegain loops: Death triggers ping opponents and gain life. Enchantments then convert that lifegain into more life loss and vice versa, turning a sacrifice chain into lethal (Zulaport Cutthroat, Sanguine Bond, Exquisite Blood). - Rat tribal beatdown: Lords and scaling creatures grow with the number of Rats. Evasion and toxic or deathtouch grants let the swarm push through combat damage and poison (Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Karumonix, the Rat King, Marrow-Gnawer). - Recursion and value bodies: Self-mill, graveyard reanimation and returning creatures recycle nontoken creatures. Each death and return also mints more Rats and replays enter effects (Nim Deathmantle, Rat King, Verminister, Nine-Lives Familiar). - Opponent attrition: Hand-size Misers and discard pressure opponents' resources. Edict-on-death and -X/-X effects that spare Rats clear blockers while the swarm survives (Butcher of Malakir, Swarmyard Massacre, Locust Miser).

Rat King, Pale Piper decklist

• Ashnod's Altar
• Bolas's Citadel
• Bontu's Monument
• Crowded Crypt
• Mirror Shield
• Nim Deathmantle
• Phyrexian Altar
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• The Darkness Crystal
• Thought Vessel
• Tormod's Crypt
• Vanquisher's Banner
• Whip of Erebos
• Blast Zone
• Bojuka Bog
• Cabal Stronghold
• Echoing Deeps
• Mortuary Mire
• Myriad Landscape
• 29× Swamp
• Urza's Cave
• Witch's Cottage
• Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• Blightbelly Rat
• Butcher of Malakir
• Chittering Witch
• Disciple of Bolas
• Emperor of Bones
• Enduring Tenacity
• Gnat Miser
• Gnawing Vermin
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• Karumonix, the Rat King
• Locust Miser
• Lord Skitter's Butcher
• Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• Marrow-Gnawer
• Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• Nightmare Shepherd
• Nine-Lives Familiar
• Ogre Slumlord
• Ophiomancer
• Ossuary Rats
• Pack Rat
• Persistent Marshstalker
• Pestilence Rats
• Piper of the Swarm
• Rat King, Verminister
• Septic Rats
• Snarling Gorehound
• Stitcher's Supplier
• Valley Rotcaller
• Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
• Voracious Vermin
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Agent of the Iron Throne
• Exquisite Blood
• Sanguine Bond
• Tainted Remedy
• Dark Ritual
• Defile
• Black Sun's Zenith
• Cerebral Confiscation
• Collective Brutality
• Living End
• Nightmare Incursion
• Revenge of the Rats
• Swarmyard Massacre
• Victimize