Wick, the Whorled Mind leads a Rat tribal swarm strategy that continuously floods the board with Rat tokens through lords, token generators, and changeling creatures that count as Rats, growing a single Snail token incrementally with +1/+1 counters. The deck then powers up that Snail as large as possible using pump spells and effects before sacrificing it to Wick's activated ability, dealing its power as damage to each opponent while drawing an equal number of cards. Solphim, Mayhem Dominus serves as a key damage amplifier, doubling the noncombat damage from Wick's sacrifice trigger to potentially close out the game in a single activation, while Illusionist's Bracers can copy the sacrifice ability entirely for redundant lethal bursts.

Wick, the Whorled Mind decklist

• Abrade
• Ancient Tomb
• Ash Barrens
• Azure Beastbinder
• Behind the Mask
• Bender's Waterskin
• Blasphemous Act
• Blazemire Verge
• Blazing Crescendo
• Blightbelly Rat
• Bloodfell Caves
• Boggart Trawler
• Bulk Up
• Burglar Rat
• Chameleon, Master of Disguise
• Chittering Witch
• Consumed by Greed
• Dimir Cluestone
• Dimir Signet
• Displacer Kitten
• Engine Rat
• Fellwar Stone
• Felonious Rage
• Fists of Flame
• Illusionist's Bracers
• Infuriate
• Ionize
• 6× Island
• Karumonix, the Rat King
• Leyline of Transformation
• Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• Lord Skitter's Butcher
• Mad Ratter
• Magmakin Artillerist
• Marrow-Gnawer
• Mindwhisker
• Monstrous Rage
• 9× Mountain
• Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion
• Necrogen Communion
• Nezumi Prowler
• Ogre Slumlord
• Open the Omenpaths
• Pack Rat
• Patchwork Banner
• Persistent Marshstalker
• Plague of Vermin
• Qarsi Revenant
• Rakdos Cluestone
• Rakdos Signet
• Rat King, Verminister
• Reckless Ransacking
• Redcap Gutter-Dweller
• Shoot the Sheriff
• Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• Song of Totentanz
• Spaceshift
• Spymaster's Vault
• Stalactite Dagger
• Steam Vents
• Stock Up
• Stormcarved Coast
• Sugar Rush
• 7× Swamp
• Talisman of Dominance
• Taurean Mauler
• Three Steps Ahead
• Three Tree Mascot
• Thundering Falls
• Tidecaller Mentor
• Titan's Strength
• Turn Inside Out
• Undercity Dire Rat
• Underground Sea
• Untimely Malfunction
• Vampiric Tutor
• Vren, the Relentless
• Waterlogged Teachings
• Xander's Lounge