Rat King, Verminister rewards anything leaving the battlefield under its controller's control. Each end step after that happens, it makes a 1/1 Rat token and grows itself, so the deck wants sacrifice outlets, self-bouncing and dying creatures every turn. The steady stream of Rats then pays the commander's tap-and-sacrifice-three-Rats cost, which reanimates a creature card from the graveyard along with every same-named copy. That turns the Rat pile into a repeatable recursion engine backed by a mono-black aristocrats shell. How it wins: It grinds opponents out with a self-refilling board of Rats and recurring creatures, draining life through death and enter-the-battlefield triggers, swinging with toxic menace Rats, and eventually overwhelming with a large commander and a wide board. Key roles: - Disappear engine: These cards stack extra rewards on the same end-step condition the commander checks, turning one sacrifice or departure a turn into tokens, counters, card selection or free spells alongside Rat King, Verminister's Rat (Lord Dregg, Insect Invader, Insectoid Exterminator, Krang & Shredder). - Sacrifice outlets: Free or cheap ways to make a permanent leave every turn reliably switch on Rat King, Verminister and convert spare tokens into cards, counters or Clues (Ayara, First of Locthwain, June, Bounty Hunter, Pirate Peddlers). - Rat tribal: Extra Rat bodies and Rat makers feed the three-Rat sacrifice cost faster, while others lend menace or toxic and refill the hand with more Rats (Piper of the Swarm, Pack Rat, Karumonix, the Rat King). - Self-recurring fodder: Creatures that return from the graveyard on their own, or leave value when they die, can be sacrificed repeatedly without losing card economy (Tunnel Rats, Undercity Dire Rat, Merchant of Many Hats). - Death payoffs and drain: Every creature that dies or leaves pings opponents, gains life or replaces itself, so the constant churn becomes the win condition (Massacre Girl, Most Wanted, Ninja Teen, Open the Graves). - Graveyard reanimation: Rat King, Verminister's activation and other recursion bring back the best creatures milled or sacrificed, reusing their enter-the-battlefield effects (Rewrite Regrets, Liliana the Repentant, Darklight Phoenix).

Rat King, Verminister decklist

• Aang, at the Crossroads
• 2× Aang's Journey
• Aang, the Last Airbender
• Abandon Attachments
• 6× Academic Ascent
• 3× Accumulate Wisdom
• Action News Crew
• Adeliz, the Cinder Wind
• 6× Afterthought Sentry
• Airbender's Reversal
• 2× Airbending Lesson
• Ajani's Anguish
• Amalia Benavides Aguirre
• Anchovy & Banana Pizza
• Ancient Brontodon
• Angel of Destiny
• Ant-Man, Colony Commander
• 6× Apex Witchstalker
• April, Reporter of the Weird
• 6× Arcane Amphisbaena
• 3× Arcane Signet
• 2× Archive Arbiter
• 3× Arni, Humble Scribe
• 3× Arni, Renowned Champion
• 8× Artifist Acumen
• Avatar Destiny
• 2× Avatar Enthusiasts
• Averna, the Chaos Bloom
• 8× Awaken the Inferno
• Ayara, First of Locthwain
• Back to Nature
• 2× Badgermole
• Badgermole Cub
• Baird, Steward of Argive
• Balefire Liege
• 2× Barrels of Blasting Jelly
• Baxter Stockman
• Beast
• Beast Within
• Bebop, Warthog Warrior
• Belligerent Brontodon
• 5× Bestial Incursion
• 3× Blazing Crescendo
• 6× Blessed Ghoul
• Bloodline Recollector
• 2× Bloombrute
• 6× Blossom-Blessed Angel
• Boar-q-pine
• Boiling Rock Prison
• Boiling Rock Rioter
• 2× Bot Bashing Time
• Bounty of Might
• 2× Break Under Pressure
• Brilliance Unleashed
• 5× Budding Insurgent
• Bumi Bash
• Burning Sun's Avatar
• Buzzard-Wasp Colony
• Caesar, Legion's Emperor
• 2× Callous Inspector
• 7× Campus Crier
• 2× Canyon Crawler
• Carnage Tyrant
• Carnivorous Cultivator
• Casey Jones, Jury-Rig Justiciar
• Casey Jones, Vigilante
• 7× Cast Away Doubt
• Cat-Gator
• 5× Cat-Owl
• 5× Chandra's Emberling
• Chandra, Torch of Defiance
• 6× Charge the Sanctum
• Charging Monstrosaur
• Cherished Hatchling
• Citizen
• 2× Clash of Elements
• Codie, Ravenous Codex
• Coiling Oracle
• 3× Commander's Sphere
• 3× Command the Stage
• 2× Command Tower
• 3× Compassionate Healer
• 7× Compel Brutality
• Consider
• Courier of Comestibles
• 2× Cowabunga!
• 3× Craftwork Crusher
• 2× Craterclaw Colossus
• 2× Crustacean Commando
• 4× Cryotheory Adept
• 4× Cunning Maneuver
• Curious Farm Animals
• Curse-Marred Demon
• 3× Cycle of Renewal
• Dack Fayden, Helping Hand
• Dai Li Agents
• 3× Dai Li Indoctrination
• 4× Danitha, Spear of Agony
• 5× Danitha, Sword of Hope
• Darklight Phoenix
• 2× Dark Matter Manipulator
• 2× Deadly Precision
• 2× Dedicated Commons
• Deep-Cavern Bat
• Deserted Beach
• 2× Deserter's Disciple
• 3× Desperate Futurescribe
• Diaochan, Artful Beauty
• Dimension X
• Dimir Signet
• Dinosaur Stampede
• Diviner of Victory
• 7× Divining Duelist
• Donatello's Technique
• 3× Donatello, Turtle Techie
• Draconic Visitor
• Dream Beavers
• Druid's Deliverance
• 4× Eardrum Rattler
• Earthbender Ascension
• 3× Earthbending Lesson
• Earth Kingdom General
• Earth Kingdom Jailer
• Earth Kingdom Protectors
• 3× Earth Kingdom Soldier
• 2× Earth King's Lieutenant
• 3× Earth Rumble
• Earth Rumble Wrestlers
• 2× Earth Village Ruffians
• East Wind Avatar
• 3× Edgar, Ancient Bloodlord
• 3× Edgar, Moonlit Sovereign
• Elemental Teachings
• Elvish Visionary
• Ember Island Production
• 5× Emergency Phytomedic
• Enigma Sphinx
• 2× Enlightened Confidant
• EPF Point Squad
• Epicure of Blood
• Escape Tunnel
• 5× Essence Burn
• Evolving Wilds
• 2× Exotic Orchard
• 9× Extended Absence
• Extrapolate the Impossible
• 2× Eye of Jace
• Face Yourself
• Farseek
• Fatal Fissure
• Fatehold Annex
• 3× Fatehold Charm
• 5× Fatehold Chronologist
• 6× Fateshaper Aspirant
• 3× Fblthp, Impossibly Lost
• 3× Fblthp, Knows the Way
• Featherbrained Filcher
• Fecundity
• Feldon of the Third Path
• 2× Fellwar Stone
• 8× Ferocity of the Hunt
• Fiendish Panda
• Firebender Ascension
• 2× Firebending Lesson
• Fire Nation Cadets
• Fire Nation Engineer
• 2× Fire Nation Raider
• Fire Nation Warship
• Fire Sages
• First-Time Flyer
• 2× Flexible Waterbender
• Flopsie, Bumi's Buddy
• Flourishing Grapple
• Foggy Bottom Swamp
• Foggy Swamp Hunters
• 2× Foggy Swamp Spirit Keeper
• Foggy Swamp Vinebender
• Foolish Fate
• 3× Foot Elite
• 2× Foot Ninjas
• 3× Forecasting Fortune Teller
• 46× Forest
• Forest Tentacle
• 2× Formidable Commons
• Form of the Dinosaur
• Fracture
• Frenzied Raptor
• Frilled Mystic
• 2× Frog Butler
• Frostbite Pyromental
• 3× Fulminous Forte
• Fynn, the Fangbearer
• 3× Gallia, the Merrymaker
• 6× Gallia, Tragic Host
• Garruk's Horde
• Garruk's Uprising
• 3× Geist of Saint Thalia
• 4× Generous Revival
• Genghis Frog
• 2× Germinate Recruits
• 2× Geyser Leaper
• 3× Ghalta the Immovable
• 4× Ghalta the Unstoppable
• Giant Cindermaw
• Giant Koi
• 5× Gideon's Memorial
• 3× Gideon the Oathless
• Glider Kids
• 2× Glider Staff
• Go Ninja Go
• 8× Graft Surgeon
• 4× Greenhouse Propagator
• 3× Grim Repriser
• Grounded for Life
• 2× Guac & Marshmallow Pizza
• Hall of Echoes
• 6× Hallway Heckler
• Hamato Guardian Stance
• 5× Hapatra, the Desert Fang
• 5× Hapatra, the Desert Frost
• 2× Hard-Won Jitte
• Harmonize
• 9× Heartstring Puller
• 3× Heartwood Crafter
• Hei Bai, Spirit of Balance
• Hero's Downfall
• 4× Hexhaven Battalion
• 4× Hexhaven Dueling Arena
• 2× Hog-Monkey
• Honest Work
• How to Start a Riot
• Human Torch, Johnny Storm
• 2× Hungering Puppetbeast
• 4× Hunter's Axe
• 2× Ice Cream Kitty
• 8× Icy Reception
• 2× Identity Echo
• 3× Iguana Parrot
• Illegitimate Business
• Impale
• Imperial Ceratops
• 4× Infinite Coursework
• 2× Ingris Stingerquill
• Innovative Commons
• Insect
• Insectoid Exterminator
• 8× Inspired Tethermage
• Invasion Reinforcements
• Invasion Submersible
• Invasion Tactics
• Iroh's Demonstration
• 37× Island
• It'll Quench Ya!
• Jace
• 3× Jace, Reality Sculptor
• 3× Jennika, Bad Apple Big Sister
• Jennika's Technique
• 2× Jeong Jeong's Deserters
• 2× Jet, Freedom Fighter
• 2× Jiang Yanggu, Alone
• 4× Jiang Yanggu, Never Alone
• June, Bounty Hunter
• Kang, Temporal Tyrant
• Karai's Technique
• Karn, Argent Defender
• Karn, Gilded Guardian
• Karumonix, the Rat King
• Katara, the Fearless
• 2× Kaza, Roil Chaser
• 7× Keeper of the Quiet Hour
• Kemba, Kha Regent
• Kindred Judgment
• Kiora of Fire and Ashes
• 6× Kiora of Salt and Sand
• Knowledge Seeker
• Koh, the Face Stealer
• 4× Konstrari Annex
• Konstrari Charm
• 6× Konstrari Improviser
• 6× Koth of the Homestead
• 3× Koth, the Geomancer
• Krang, Master Mind
• Krang & Shredder
• Kwain, Itinerant Meddler
• Kyoshi Battle Fan
• Kyoshi Island Plaza
• 4× Last Gasp
• Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 2× Leaves from the Vine
• Legion Warboss
• Leonardo, Cutting Edge
• Lich's Relic
• 2× Lightning Greaves
• Liliana the Repentant
• 6× Living Library
• Llanowar Elves
• Lluwen, Exchange Student
• Long Feng, Grand Secretariat
• 5× Loot, the Anomaly
• 4× Loot, the Nexus
• Lord Dregg, Insect Invader
• 2× Lost Days
• Lotus
• Loyal Tutor
• Lumbering Falls
• Lyra, Archangel of Dawn
• Lyra, Tolarian Archangel
• 2× Mabel, Bitter Recluse
• 2× Mabel, Valley Hero
• Madame Null, Power Broker
• Magmaquake
• Mai, Jaded Edge
• 2× Mai, Scornful Striker
• 2× Make Your Move
• Manhole Missile
• Martyr's Bond
• 3× Marwyn, the Clearcutter
• 2× Marwyn, the Preserver
• 4× Massacre Girl, Most Wanted
• Master of Barbs
• 2× Master Pakku
• 2× Master Piandao
• Mechanized Ninja Cavalry
• 7× Medic's Kitesail
• Memnarch, the Warden
• 3× Memory Trap
• Merchant of Many Hats
• Mercurial Pretender
• 2× Messenger Hawk
• 2× Metalhead
• 3× Meticulous Commons
• 4× Michelangelo, Game Master
• Michelangelo, Mutant BFF
• Mighty Mutanimals
• 3× Mind Meanderer
• 3× Mindseeker Oculus
• Mind Stone
• 2× Misty Palms Oasis
• Moment of Craving
• 2× Momo, Friendly Flier
• Mona Lisa, Science Geek
• 2× Mongoose Lizard
• 29× Mountain
• Mouser Attack!
• 2× Mouser Foundry
• Mouser Mark III
• 4× Multiply by Zero
• Murder
• 4× Murmuring Volume
• Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
• Mutant Chain Reaction
• 3× Mutant Town
• Narfi, Betrayer King
• Naturalize
• 2× Negate
• New Generation's Technique
• Ninja Teen
• 7× No Admittance
• North Pole Patrol
• Novel Nunchaku
• Null Summoner
• Obeka, Brute Chronologist
• Octopus Form
• Omashu City
• Omnath, Locus of Rage
• On Serra's Wings
• Open the Graves
• Opt
• 4× Origin of Metalbending
• Ostrich-Horse
• 2× Otter-Penguin
• 4× Overgrown Farmland
• Overwrite the Multiverse
• Ozai's Cruelty
• Pack Rat
• 2× Pain 101
• 3× Paradox Shaper
• Paramecia Coloniex
• Party Dude
• Path to Redemption
• Pattern of Rebirth
• 3× Perfected Theory
• Phylath, World Sculptor
• Phyrexian Vindicator
• 4× Pia, Aether Ascetic
• 4× Pia, Determined Rebuilder
• Pillar Launch
• Piper of the Swarm
• 3× Pirate Peddlers
• 35× Plains
• Planar Cleansing
• 7× Plan for All Outcomes
• 2× Pompous Battlemage
• Precise Redaction
• 4× Predictive Preparations
• 2× Pretending Poxbearers
• 3× Primal Witchstalker
• 3× Primordial Pachyderm
• 2× Pristine Talisman
• Professor Zei, Anthropologist
• 2× Proft, Consulting Detective
• 4× Proft, Sinister Mastermind
• Propaganda
• 3× Prophesied End
• 5× Protege's Awakening
• 3× Prudent Fateseer
• Pterafractyl
• 2× Puppet Crafting
• Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 2× Putrid Pals
• Pyrohemia
• 4× Ragamuffin Raptor
• Rain-Slicked Copse
• Raiyuu, Storm's Edge
• Rakdos Signet
• Rampaging Brontodon
• 6× Rampart Hunter
• 6× Rank Rat
• Raphael, Most Attitude
• Raphael, Tough Turtle
• Raptor Companion
• Ratadrabik of Urborg
• Raucous Audience
• Raven Eagle
• Ray Fillet, Man Ray
• 2× Razor Rings
• 2× Rebellious Captives
• Reclamation Sage
• Recursive Recruitment
• 3× Refute Destiny
• Repurposed Enforcer
• 2× Rescue Girl, First Responder
• Rest in Peace
• 4× Restore with Empathy
• 2× Retro-Mutation
• 2× Return to the Sewers
• Rewrite Regrets
• Reyav, Master Smith
• Rishkar's Expertise
• 2× Rockfall Vale
• 2× Rock Soldiers
• Rocksteady, Crash Courser
• 2× Rocky Rebuke
• Roiling Canopy
• 4× Room of Refuge
• 2× Rowdy Snowballers
• Ruinous Waterbending
• 3× Rumble Arena
• Ruric Thar, Biomagus
• Ruric Thar, Magecrusher
• Saber-Tooth Moose-Lion
• 4× Saheeli, Consul of Oversight
• 4× Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
• 2× Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 2× Samut, Hazoret's Champion
• 2× Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
• 2× Sanctum Lurker
• 2× Sandbenders' Storm
• 2× Saved by the Shell
• Scavenger Grounds
• 4× Scoured Barrens
• 5× Screeching Soulbreaker
• Seasoned Cryomancer
• Secret Rendezvous
• Seismic Sense
• Selesnya Keyrune
• 7× Semester Foreseer
• Serpent of the Pass
• 3× Serpent's Pass
• Sewer-veillance Cam
• Shamanic Revelation
• 2× Shark Shredder, Killer Clone
• 8× Shatterwing Pegasus
• Shining Aerosaur
• 2× Shipwreck Marsh
• Shredder's Revenge
• Siegehorn Ceratops
• 3× Silence the Echo
• 2× Simulacrum Shaper
• Sinuous Benthisaur
• 2× Siona, Captain of the Pyleas
• 5× Skilled Battlecarver
• Slash, Reptile Rampager
• 2× Slimefoot, the Stowaway
• Slithering Cryptid
• Sokka, Lateral Strategist
• Sokka's Haiku
• 3× Solarium Sentry
• 4× Sold Out
• 2× Solitary Cell
• 4× Sol Ring
• Solstice Revelations
• 6× Solve for Disappointment
• 4× Something Worth Saving
• Sparring Dummy
• Sphinx of False Conclusions
• 5× Sphinx's Approach
• Sphinx's Decree
• Sphinx Summoner
• Spike-Tailed Ceratops
• Splinter, Hamato Yoshi
• 2× Splinter, Radical Rat
• Squirrelanoids
• Stampeding Horncrest
• Starscape Cleric
• Stingcaster Mage
• 4× Stingerquill Annex
• 3× Stingerquill Charm
• 3× Stingerquill Voxmancer
• 2× Stinging Vitriol
• Stockman, Mad Fly-entist
• 2× Stomped by the Foot
• Suki, Courageous Rescuer
• Suki, Kyoshi Warrior
• 2× Sun-Blessed Peak
• Sun-Crested Pterodon
• 2× Sun Warriors
• Super-Skrull
• 3× Sureshot Sower
• 6× Surgical Precision
• 9× Surveillance Phantasm
• 39× Swamp
• Swampsnare Trap
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Talisman of Creativity
• Talisman of Curiosity
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Hierarchy
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Talisman of Resilience
• 8× Tam's Resistance
• 2× Tam, the Possibility
• 2× Tenderize
• 2× Tenured Tethermage
• 3× Terminal Criticism
• 4× Tethermage's Advantage
• 4× Tether Technician
• 2× Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
• 5× Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer
• 4× Teyo, Diamondblade Mage
• 4× Teyo, Lightshield Expert
• 5× Thalia, the Survivor
• 2× The Cave of Two Lovers
• The Lion-Turtle
• 8× Theoretical Necromancer
• Theorist's Proxy
• 2× Theorix Annex
• 4× Theorix Charm
• 4× Theorix Metamage
• The Spirit Oasis
• The Theorist, Jace Beleren
• The Unagi of Kyoshi Island
• The Walls of Ba Sing Se
• Thirst for Knowledge
• Thrashing Brontodon
• 2× Tiger-Dillo
• 5× Tinybones, Pocket Nuisance
• 2× Titanbones, Towering Heart
• 2× Tolls of War
• 4× Tomik, Izzet Sparkmage
• 5× Tomik, Orzhov Lawmage
• Tori D'Avenant, Fury Rider
• Tranquil Thicket
• Transformative Commons
• 3× Traxos, Academy Guardian
• 6× Traxos, Scourge Eternal
• 3× Treetop Freedom Fighters
• 2× Triceraton Commander
• True Conviction
• 2× Trusty Boomerang
• 2× Tunnel Rats
• 2× Turbulent Crater
• Turtle Blimp
• 4× Twinned Vision
• 5× Twisted Fates
• Ty Lee, Artful Acrobat
• Uncle Iroh
• Undercity Dire Rat
• 6× Undulating Witness
• 2× Uneasy Alliance
• 3× Unflinching Hortimancer
• 4× Unsummon
• 2× Urban Daggertooth
• 2× Utrom Scientists
• Uurg, Spawn of Turg
• 2× Variable Chaser
• Vengeant Vampire
• Vengeful Villagers
• 2× Venus, Torn Between Worlds
• Verdant Kraken
• Veteran Explorer
• 6× Vigorbloom Annex
• Vigorbloom Charm
• 2× Vigorbloom Vanguard
• Vindictive Triumph
• 3× Vindictive Warden
• 5× Vinelasher Adept
• 4× Violent Echoes
• 6× Void Extrapolator
• 3× Vraska's Final Mercy
• Vraska, Soul of Stone
• Vraska, the Cutting Glare
• 2× Walltop Sentries
• Wandering Musicians
• 2× War Balloon
• Warrior's Blades
• Wartime Protestors
• Waterbending Lesson
• 2× Water Tribe Captain
• 2× Watery Grasp
• 8× Way of the Cryomancer
• Way of the Deathbringer
• 3× Way of the Healer
• 4× Way of the Mentor
• 3× Way of the Mind Sculptor
• 3× Way of the Necromancer
• 3× Way of the Paradox
• 6× Way of the Pyromancer
• 6× Way of the Warlord
• 2× Way of the Wildspeaker
• West Wind Avatar
• 5× Whiplash Wordsmith
• 3× White Lotus Hideout
• Winter, Team Player
• Witch's Clinic
• Withering Torment
• 2× Wolfbat
• 4× Woodwork Prodigy
• 4× Wrath of the Bloodmane
• 6× Wrecking Gecko
• 2× Yargle, Glutton of Urborg
• 2× Yargle, Goliath of Otaria
• Yarok, the Desecrated
• Yip Yip!
• 5× Yoshimaru, Beloved Companion
• 4× Yoshimaru, Scrappy Stray
• 4× Your Fate Ends Here
• 6× Yuriko, Blade of the Mighty
• 4× Yuriko, Hope from the Shadows
• Yuyan Archers
• Zareth San, the Trickster
• Zhao, Ruthless Admiral
• Zhao, the Moon Slayer
• Zimone, Quandrix Prodigy
• 5× Zog, Triceraton Castaway
• Zoo Escapees
• Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
• 3× Zuko's Exile
• 虹色の終焉