Vren, the Relentless
Vren, the Relentless Commander Deck
Vren, the Relentless sits at the center of a mass-removal-into-tokens engine, using a dense suite of board wipes and sacrifice effects that kill opponent creatures to trigger Vren's exile replacement ability, then converting those exiled creatures into a growing army of Rat tokens at each end step. Because the tokens scale in power based on the total number of Rats you control, lords and tribal anthem effects like Coat of Arms and Marrow-Gnawer allow the swarm to reach lethal size rapidly. Drain and sacrifice payoffs such as Dictate of Erebos, Grave Pact, and The Meathook Massacre punish opponents for losing creatures while also generating additional value from your own Rats, locking the table into a losing attrition war that ends under an overwhelming Rat horde.
Decklist
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Ancient Tomb
- Arcane Signet
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
- Ashnod's Altar
- Ayara, First of Locthwain
- Azure Beastbinder
- Banner of Kinship
- Barter in Blood
- Black Market
- Black Market Connections
- Black Sun's Twilight
- Bojuka Bog
- Bontu's Monument
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare
- Cabal Coffers
- Cavern of Souls
- Clearwater Pathway
- Coat of Arms
- Command Tower
- Corrupted Conviction
- Counterspell
- Crippling Fear
- Crypt Rats
- Cyclonic Rift
- Dark Ritual
- Darkwater Catacombs
- Deadly Rollick
- Delay
- Deluge of Doom
- Demon's Disciple
- Demonic Tutor
- Dictate of Erebos
- Dimir Signet
- Dismember
- Distant Melody
- Do or Die
- Drowned Catacomb
- Emeritus of Woe
- Extinction Event
- Fellwar Stone
- Fierce Guardianship
- Flare of Malice
- Fleshbag Marauder
- Force of Despair
- Force of Negation
- Gloomlake Verge
- Go for the Throat
- Grave Pact
- Grave Researcher
- In Garruk's Wake
- Infected Vermin
- Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
- Innocent Blood
- Jet Medallion
- Karumonix, the Rat King
- Kaya's Ghostform
- Kindred Discovery
- Kindred Dominance
- Lightning Greaves
- Liliana's Triumph
- Make an Example
- Mana Drain
- Mandate of Abaddon
- Marrow-Gnawer
- Merciless Executioner
- Mire in Misery
- Mirkwood Bats
- Mithril Coat
- Morphic Pool
- Mortuary Mire
- Mudflat Village
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
- Nashi, Searcher in the Dark
- Nezumi Graverobber
- Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
- Ogre Slumlord
- Opposition Agent
- Otawara, Soaring City
- Overwhelming Forces
- Pack Rat
- Patchwork Banner
- Persistent Marshstalker
- Piper of the Swarm
- Plague Wind
- Polluted Delta
- Pongify
- Priest of Forgotten Gods
- Raise the Palisade
- Rancid Rats
- Rapid Hybridization
- Rat King, Verminister
- Rat Out
- Reanimate
- Reliquary Tower
- Revenge of the Rats
- Rhystic Study
- Roaming Throne
- Rush of Dread
- Ruthless Radrat
- Scrib Nibblers
- Season of Loss
- Sheoldred's Edict
- Shipwreck Marsh
- Sol Ring
- Splash Portal
- Stubborn Denial
- Sunken Hollow
- Sunken Ruins
- Swan Song
- Swarmyard
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Sword of the Squeak
- Taigam, Sidisi's Hand
- Tainted Isle
- Talisman of Dominance
- The Darkness Crystal
- The One Ring
- The Soul Stone
- Three Tree City
- Throat Slitter
- Toxic Deluge
- Tragic Slip
- Typhoid Rats
- Undercity Dire Rat
- Undercity Sewers
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Valley Rotcaller
- Vampiric Tutor
- Victimize
- Village Rites
- Vona's Hunger
- Watery Grave
- Will of the Abzan
- Wonder
- Yahenni's Expertise
- 5× Snow-Covered Island
- 5× Snow-Covered Swamp
- Shoreline Looter