Rats have been around 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering since the release of Ice Age in 1995. Despite how long the creature type has been around, there is actually a rather small number of Rat cards, with only about 100 Rats in all of Magic. The type i♏s most common in Kamigawa sets, with appearances in other ones like R꧂avnica and Bloomburrow.

Rats are best known for their ability to flood the battlefield and take advantage of how many Rats you control. The majority of Rats⛄ are black, with some appearing in other colors as well, ⛦most commonly blue. Despite the low number of Rats, the power of the best is very high.

10 ♎ ༒ Refurbished Familiar

One-Mana Forced Discard

Although Refurbished Familiar costs four mana, more often than not, you'll be casting it for much less, usually just one black mana. There are so many ways to get artifacts onto the battlefield; having an affinity of three to discount the generic mana in its cost is trivial, letting you potentially get it onto the battlefield as early as turn one.

Refurbished Familiar has become a staple in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pauper format in Affinity decks a💙nd has a home in other formats where Affinity is a viable strategy, such as Commander.

9 𝐆 Ink-Eyes, Servant Of Oni ꦬ

Sudden Graveyard Recursion

Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni can keep itself protected with its ability to regenerate itself, all while being able to safely hit the battlefield with ninjutsu. Since ninjutsu is an ability, it can't be countered by most counterspells, making it easy to guarantee Ink-Eyes connects for damage.

If your opponent has a lot of cards in the graveyard, you can keep connecting for damage with Ink-Eyes to keep getting them onto your battlefield. If you have ways to make Ink-Eyes an evasive attacker or 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:if you give it double strike, you can use Ink-Eyes' ability twice.

8 🎉 Cryꦡpt Rats

Common Board Wipe

Crypt Rats is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of the very few board wipes that are available at the common rarity, making it widel🥀y played in Pauper decks that want something like that in their deck (primarily Golgari Gardens). So long as you have black mana to spend, Crypt Rats can wipe the boar𒁏d of anything as well as deal burn damage to your opponents.

Since only black mana can be used for Crypt Rats, it's often played in decks that primarily use black mana, as the more colors you add, the harder it can be to activate. It's a great way to close out a game if you manage to generate infinite mana.

7 Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion

Trade Life For Spells

Nashi is both a great Rat and commander, letting you cast the top card of someone's library whenever it deals combat damage. If you have it in your hand, you can help guarantee the effect goes off by using ninjutsu on an unblockable creature.

The one downside to Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion is you need to plan your deck around it. While casting spells without spending mana is great, Nashi can burn you out really fast. As such, it's important to include ways to gain life if you're opting to have a deck with Nashi as a part of its game plan.

6 Pack Rat

The Bane Of Limited

If you have ever pla🧸yed a limited format with Pack Rat in it, you know just how out of hand this card can get. Pack Rat can easily make copies of itself, so long as you have m𒁏ana to spend and cards to discard.

Pack Rat and its copies will boost each other up, and when combined with other Rat cards, the stats only get higher. For just two mana, you can start impacting the board right away. Since the token copies also have the ability to create token copies of themselves, once one copy hits the battlefield, it'll be very difficult to remove them permanently.

5 𒁃 Vren, The Relentless ꦆ

Rat Of Control

Vren, the Relentless is a Rat that wants you to constantly be destroying your opponents' creatures. Vren's effect triggers on every end step, not just your own, so you can generate a ton of Rat tokens without having to use your removal only on your turn.

The Rat tokens Vren creates all get extra stats for every Rat, so 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:with just a few removal effects, you'll have an army of Rat tokens that'll be hard to deal with. Vren's ward effect helps keep it safe from removal effects, especially if you have protection and counterspells to back it up.

4 ♏ Greasef🌄ang, Okiba Boss

Speeding Vehicles

If you want to play a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:deck built around Vehicles, Greasefang, Okiba Boss is the card for you. It can bring any Vehicle out ♌from the graveyard with haste, letting you attack with it right away so long as you have enough power to crew it.

The most common Vehicle used in tandem with Greasefang is Parhelion II, which leaves behind two 4/4 flying Angel tokens with vigilance. This combo is most common in Pioneer, where 💃Greasefang is among the top decks, thanks to how easy it is to fill the graveyard in that format.

3 😼 Rat Colony ⛄

As Many As You Want

Rat Colony is one of the small handful of cards that let you play any number of copies in your deck. It's often the focus of plenty of Rat decks, as the copies boost themselves and take advantage of generic Rat support cards to give them useful static abilities.

If you are playing a Rat Colony deck, Thrumming Stone is a must-include, as it'll let you cast a spell with the same name among the top four cards of your library. This combo has the potential to get you a ton of Rat Colony copies on the battlefield with just the cast of one.

2 🔯 Ashcoat Of The Shadow Swarm

Warlock Of Rats

Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm is one of the best support cards for any Rat deck. It'll give your Rats massive power and toughness boosts when it attacks, so long as you have a lot of Rats on the battlefield (which in Rat decks, you most certainly will).

The effect to mill and return Rat creatures is great as well. Notably, the returned Rats don't need to be among the cards you milled, so if a powerful Rat gets removed, Ashcoat can easily get it back so long as you don't mind milling four cards (and that effect can play into graveyard synergies too).

1 ꦦ 🤡 Marrow-Gnawer

Fear The Rats

Marrow-Gnawer is the primary commander for Rat decks if you're building one, and even if you aren't using it as a commander, it's the best Rat card there is. By sacrificing a Rat, you can double up on the number of Rats you control. If you have ways to untap it right away, you can do this multiple times a turn to create a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:giant battlefield of Rat tokens.

In addition to making a giant number of Rats, Marrow-Gnawer gives them all fear, meanin🙈g only bla🌳ck and artifact creatures can actually block them. If no opponent has either of those, the Rats can swing in without worry and deal a ton of damage with how many are swinging in.