Wick, the Whorled Mind runs a Rat tribal go-wide deck. Every Rat entering, Wick included, either makes a 1/1 Snail or grows the Snail already on board with a +1/+1 counter. Wick then cashes in a large Snail for {U}{B}{R}, dealing its power to each opponent and drawing that many cards. Token makers flood the board with Rats, which feeds the Snail and buffs Rat lords and count-based payoffs. Type-changing effects turn every creature into a Rat, a Snail or both, so every body pumps Wick's engine and tribal payoffs. How it wins: It either swarms opponents with pumped, evasive, deathtouch or toxic Rats, or grows a Snail large enough that Wick's sacrifice burns each opponent for lethal, with incidental damage from enter and sacrifice triggers finishing the job. Key roles: - Rat token generation: Repeated and burst Rat token production goes wide and fires Wick's Snail trigger over and over to grow the Snail's power (Marrow-Gnawer, Lord Skitter, Sewer King, Revenge of the Rats) - Type-changing and trigger doubling: Making creatures every type turns non-Rats and tokens into Rats and Snails for Wick's triggers and tribal bonuses, while doubling triggered abilities amplifies Wick and Rat payoffs (Maskwood Nexus, Conspiracy, Roaming Throne) - Tribal anthems and evasion: Lords and Rat-count scalers turn the swarm into a lethal attack force with menace, fear, deathtouch, toxic or mass pumps (Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm, Pack Rat, Ogre Slumlord) - Aristocrats and sacrifice value: Sac outlets and death triggers turn surplus Rats into damage, cards and more tokens, alongside Wick's own Snail sacrifice for burn and draw (Goblin Bombardment, Skullclamp, Totentanz, Swarm Piper) - Enter-the-battlefield payoffs: Each creature arrival pings opponents, draws cards or copies Rat spells, rewarding the flood of tokens (Impact Tremors, Kindred Discovery, Reflections of Littjara) - Snail mana and draw fuel: Mana that scales with creature count and draw-based token makers keep paying for Wick's activations and refill the hand (Three Tree City, Mad Ratter, Patchwork Banner)

Wick, the Whorled Mind decklist

• Arcane Signet
• Dimir Signet
• Fellwar Stone
• Maskwood Nexus
• Patchwork Banner
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Talisman of Creativity
• Talisman of Dominance
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Thought Vessel
• Blood Crypt
• Bloodstained Mire
• Bojuka Bog
• Command Tower
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Dragonskull Summit
• Drowned Catacomb
• Exotic Orchard
• 3× Island
• Luxury Suite
• Morphic Pool
• 3× Mountain
• Mudflat Village
• Path of Ancestry
• Polluted Delta
• Reliquary Tower
• Scalding Tarn
• Steam Vents
• Sulfur Falls
• 6× Swamp
• Swarmyard
• Three Tree City
• Training Center
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Watery Grave
• Xander's Lounge
• Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
• Azure Beastbinder
• Chittering Witch
• Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
• Karumonix, the Rat King
• Lord Skitter's Butcher
• Lord Skitter, Sewer King
• Mad Ratter
• Marrow-Gnawer
• Ogre Slumlord
• Pack Rat
• Persistent Marshstalker
• Piper of the Swarm
• 5× Rat Colony
• Roaming Throne
• Shoreline Looter
• Tangled Colony
• Taurean Mauler
• Totentanz, Swarm Piper
• Valley Rotcaller
• Voracious Vermin
• Vren, the Relentless
• Black Market Connections
• Conspiracy
• Goblin Bombardment
• Impact Tremors
• Kindred Discovery
• Reflections of Littjara
• Rhystic Study
• An Offer You Can't Refuse
• Chaos Warp
• Counterspell
• Cyclonic Rift
• Dark Ritual
• Deadly Rollick
• Deflecting Swat
• Fierce Guardianship
• Negate
• Terminate
• Vampiric Tutor
• Blasphemous Act
• Demonic Tutor
• Feed the Swarm
• Jeska's Will
• Plague of Vermin
• Revenge of the Rats
• Swamp
• Mountain