Rats but kinda diff.

CommanderVALIDPUBLICB4100cards(+12 tokens)byThe Redcap

Rats but kinda diff is a 100-card Commander deck led by Wick, the Whorled Mind in the Grixis color identity (blue/black/red). TableCommander estimates this deck at bracket 4 — optimized / high-power.

The mainboard runs 31 creatures, 4 instants, 7 sorceries, 15 artifacts, 9 enchantments, 1 planeswalker, and 33 lands, averaging 3.52 mana value across non-land cards. 54% of non-land cards cost 3 mana or less; 24% cost 5 or more.

Notable inclusions: 4 game changers (e.g. Necropotence, Vampiric Tutor, and Demonic Tutor), 1 mass land denial card (Contamination), and 1 tutor (Ratcatcher). This deck is currently Commander-legal on TableCommander.

COMMANDER

Commander

PLANESWALKER(1)

CREATURE(30)

ARTIFACT(15)

ENCHANTMENT(9)

INSTANT(4)

SORCERY(7)

LAND(33)

4×

4×

8×

TOKENS(12)

100

Total

Creatures

Spells

Lands

Bracket

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Why bracket 4? — Optimized

2 early two-card combos: Wick, the Whorled Mind + Conspiracy, Rings of Brighthearth + Basalt Monolith

A two-card infinite combo cheap enough to assemble and win in the early game (data from Commander Spellbook). Bracket 3 decks are expected not to run these; any means Bracket 4.

1 mass land denial

Destroys, exiles, or locks down many lands without replacing them. Any mass land denial means Bracket 4.

Contamination

4 Game Changers

Cards on WotC's official Game Changers list. Any puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above; more than three means Bracket 4.

Demonic TutorNarset, Parter of VeilsNecropotenceVampiric Tutor

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CURVE

COLORS

24%

4889%

47%

COMBOS

Combos

Early

2-Card

3+ Card

Game-Ending

Basalt Monolith+

Rings of Brighthearthearly

Infinite colorless mana

Steps

Activate Basalt Monolith's first ability by tapping it, adding CCC.
Activate Basalt Monolith's last ability by paying 3.
Rings of Brighthearth triggers, causing you to pay 2 to copy Basalt Monolith's last ability.
Resolve the copy of Basalt Monolith's last ability, untapping it.
Activate Basalt Monolith's first ability by tapping it, adding CCC.
Resolve the Basalt Monolith ability from step 2, untapping it.
Repeat.

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Wick, the Whorled Mind+

Conspiracyearly

Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature tokens, Draw the game

Prerequisites

"Rat" chosen with Conspiracy.

Steps

Cast Wick either from your hand or from the command zone by paying 3B plus commander tax, if applicable.
When Wick enters the battlefield, it triggers, creating a 1/1 Snail creature token.
When the Snail enters the battlefield as a Rat due to Conspiracy, Wick triggers, creating a 1/1 Snail creature token.
Repeat step 3.
NOTE: This combo creates a mandatory infinite loop that will cause the game to end in a draw if the combo is not interacted with.

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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose+

Exquisite Blood

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Vito triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Exquisite Blood triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose+

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Vito triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Exquisite Blood+

Enduring Tenacity

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Enduring Tenacity triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Exquisite Blood triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Enduring Tenacity+

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifeloss, Infinite lifegain

Prerequisites

You have a way to gain life.

Steps

Gain life.
Enduring Tenacity triggers, causing an opponent to lose 1 life.
Bloodthirsty Conqueror triggers, causing you to gain 1 life.
Repeat from step 2.

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Ayara, First of Locthwain+

Plague of Vermin

Near-infinite creature tokens for all players, Near-infinite creature ETB, Near-infinite lifegain, Near-infinite lifegain triggers, Near-infinite lifeloss

Prerequisites

You have higher life total than your opponents.

Steps

Cast Plague of Vermin by paying 6B.
Resolve Plague of Vermin, choosing to pay all but one life and create that many black Rat tokens.
For each Rat tokens that enters the battlefield, Ayara triggers, causing you to gain that many life and each opponent to lose that many life.

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Ashnod's Altar+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Pitiless Plunderer

Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding CC.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding B.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Repeat.

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Phyrexian Altar+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Pitiless Plunderer

Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding 1.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Pitiless Plunderer triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure token by tapping and sacrificing it, adding B.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Repeat.

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Phyrexian Altar+

Reassembling Skeleton+

Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Reassembling Skeleton, adding B.
When Reassembling Skeleton dies, Totentanz triggers, creating a 1/1 Rat creature token.
Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing the Rat, adding 1.
Activate Reassembling Skeleton by paying 1B, returning it to the battlefield from your graveyard.
Repeat.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook. “Early” two-card combos (cheap enough to win in the first few turns) put a deck at Bracket 4; other two-card combos are at home in Bracket 3.

Valid

Legality

This deck currently passes the commander checks.

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