Pure Vermin

by Malkia777 on 08 March 2013

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sorceries (6)


Instants (3)


Enchantments (6)


Land (25)

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Deck Description

Rats, Nothing but rats. Oh, and some Murder and Stab Wounds just to keep the bigger enemies at bay. :)

How to Play

Simple: the 1/1's and Murder cards keep me safe until I can get a Ratcatcher out on the table. Then once he's out (turn 6 I know) I pull Marrow-Gnawer and populate the crap out of my rats, while Pack Rat grows and gives me some blocking power. I have only lost a couple times with this deck, but I am always looking to improve it since I'm new to the game.

Deck Tags

  • Legacy
  • Modern
  • Rats
  • Black
  • Swamp
  • pack rat
  • ratcatcher
  • Murder

Deck at a Glance

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Mana Curve

Mana Symbol Occurrence

004300

Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

Deck discussion for Pure Vermin

25 land is too much. In a monoblack deck 21 is enough.
-8 Swamp
-4 Disentomb

+4 Rishadan Port
+2 No Rest for The Wicked (great against mass removals, which your deck suffers the most)
+1 Grave Pact (When you sacrifice for Marrow-Gnawer, every other player sacrifices a creature every turn, not bad)
+1 No Mercy (survival)
+3 Duress (great against combo decks, great against removals, great against almost any deck)
+1 Drain Life (survival+removal)

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 20:37

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Awesome, thanks for the advice. I have most of those cards, except for Rishadan Port.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 20:40

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If you don't have Rishadan Port,
You can add a few Wastelands if you have but if you don't they are even more expensive.
And maybe you can add 1 or 2 Volrath's Stronghold.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 20:46

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Hmm, 4 Gnat miser is a pain for any opponent and can draw some hate away from you're more important creatures. And some Grave Pact to support marrow-gnawer cleaning up your opponents defence. Oh yeah, even 21 lands are a little to much for my taste, taking you mana curve into consideration, I would try testing with down to 18 swamps.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 20:57

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I like that Gnat Miser idea. And you're both right, I've noticed I draw WAY too much land and it clutters things up.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 21:24

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Have you thought about including Ogre Slumlord? Seems like a perfect fit to me. Deathtouch makes even the smallest rat fearsome and basically every one of your rats spawns a little cousin when it dies.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 23:14

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Yes, I need to get my hands on some of those. :)

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 23:24

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I just noticed one of the pop-up adds on this page is for Terminix, which has a picture of a rat. I'd say thats fitting.

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Posted 08 March 2013 at 23:25

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