Rat King, Verminister anchors a mono-black aristocrats shell, so only the black cards in this pool fit the plan. Any permanent leaving the battlefield under the player's control turns on Disappear, which makes a 1/1 Rat and grows the King each end step. Those Rats then become fuel: three of them reanimate the best creature card in the graveyard, alongside a ring of sacrifice outlets, death triggers and recursion that keep the board refilling. How it wins: It swarms with Rats and sacrifice fodder, closing games through menace and toxic Rat attacks, a scaling Pack Rat army, and incidental life drain every time creatures enter or die. Key roles: - Rat tribal: These cards supply, grow and empower the Rats that Rat King, Verminister's sacrifice ability consumes, adding token makers, menace and toxic, and a Rat that scales with the Rat count. (Pack Rat, Piper of the Swarm, Karumonix, the Rat King) - Sacrifice outlets: These cheap ways to throw away creatures guarantee a permanent leaves each turn to trigger Disappear, and they turn spare bodies into cards, removal or counters. (Ayara, First of Locthwain, June, Bounty Hunter, Pirate Peddlers) - Disappear and leave payoffs: A cluster of effects rewards permanents leaving the battlefield, stacking token, scry and drain value on top of the commander's own trigger. (Lord Dregg, Insect Invader, Insectoid Exterminator, Ninja Teen) - Death drain and refill: These cards punish opponents or replace bodies whenever creatures die, turning the sacrifice loop into reach and card flow. (Massacre Girl, Most Wanted, Open the Graves, Callous Inspector) - Self-recurring creatures and reanimation: These creatures return themselves from the graveyard, and the reanimation effects back up Rat King, Verminister's mass-return ability, so sacrificed threats keep coming back. (Tunnel Rats, Liliana the Repentant, Rewrite Regrets) - Black removal: Point removal, some of it paid for by sacrificing creatures, clears blockers and doubles as another leave-the-battlefield enabler. (Silence the Echo, Deadly Precision, Hero's Downfall)

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