My first commander deck

[Foxmar]

So I finally completed my first commander deck. It took allot more planning than I expected but I think it's going to work out well and Id like some opinions on it. Feel free to suggest changes or improvements to it and any feedback is welcomed!

Rat Commander Deck

Commander:
Marrow-Gnawer

Creatures:
Ravenous Rats
Gnat Miser
Locust Miser
Drainpipe Vermin
Razortooth Rats
Ichor Rats
Gutter Skulk
Typhoid Rats
Rotting Rats
Pestilence Rats
Swarm of Rats
Pack Rat
Nezumi Graverobber
Patron of Nezumi
Ratcatcher
Ogre Slumlord
Pilgrim's Eye
Wall of Spears
Reinforced Bulwark
Steel Wall
Wall of Tanglecord

Spells:
Killing Glare
Doom Blade
Corrupt
Murder
Ultimate Price
Launch Party
Devour Flesh
Annihilate
Hideous End
Terror
Rise from the Grave
Aphetto Dredging
Monomania
Unnerve
Syphon Mind
Virulent Swipe
Undying Evil
Midnight Recovery
Mind Shatter
Plague of Vermin
Lab Rats
Mental Vapors
Call to the Netherworld
Necrobite
Appetite for Brains
Sign in Blood
Stitch Together

Enchantments:
Enslave
Crippling Blight
Blood Reckoning
Vow of Malice
Stab Wound
Bloodchief Ascension
Attrition

Artifacts:
Swiftfoot Boots
Lightning Greaves
Mask of Avacyn
Crystal Ball
Onyx Goblet

Land:
Swamps x31
Piranha Marsh
Bojuka Bog
Ghost Quarter
Haunted Fengraf
Quicksand
Temple of the False God
Tectonic Edge
Swarmyard

I'm also looking for a name for this deck, so feel free to give me some ideas. Something funny would be nice since this is the LRR forums

[Mara Kalat]

A couple of Relentless Rats and Throat Slitter come to mind as basic rat cards that I would have included as well.
Adaptive Automaton is also a solid card for any tribal deck, though it doesn't really have much flavour in this context.

Drawing a blank on the name... "We give a Rat's Ass"?
Let me know if you want to play sometime!

Mara.

[Foxmar]

Nice, I like both of those rats. Automation would work but doesn't really fit the theme.
I mainly built this deck because LRR talks so highly of commander and I've never played the format. My friends say there making decks but I haven't seen any progress, might be hard to get a group together. If I ever make it to a con I would love to play it with some people.

[Mara Kalat]

You could also play it online?
There are some great (free!) alternatives to Magic Online, which quite a few LRR forumites use. It's the only Magic I've been playing since getting back into it

Glad you liked my suggestions ^_^

Mara.

[Yaxley]

For rats, it wouldn't hurt to try and track down a copy of Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni. Her second ability combos well with Marrow-Gnawer and there should be plenty of good creatures to bring back in a format like Commander.

[Foxmar]

A friend of mine has Ink-Eyes, but has refused to trade her to me. I might have to order her, but I ordered most of the deck from Card Kingdom anyway

[AzureAngel17]

If multiplayer is popular in your group, go for the Planechase deck with Ink-Eyes. Worth every penny.

[Foxmar]

Its hard to even get my group together most of the time. We play Planechase but I havent been able to find a copy of the one with Ink-Eyes that wasn't crazy expensive.

[Bluenoser]

I also run a Marrow-Gnawer Rat Tribal deck, the ultimate objective usually being to overrun people with lots of rats and tokens.

A trick I enjoy is to get multiple Marrow-Gnawer activations per turn. Cards that can help accomplish this are:

Thousand-Year Elixir
Magewright's Stone
Puppet Strings
Umbral Mantle
and my personal favorite, for infinite rats, Thornbite Staff.

You can also use an Ashnod's Altar with the Umbral Mantle or Thornbite Staff to infinitely pump/generate rats with the Umbral Mantle, or with the staff to use those rats as machine gun ammo to just ping your opponents to death. Good times.

Some random Tribal Cards that work well: Coat of Arms, Door of Destinies, Konda's Banner, Death Pit Offering, and Sword of the Paruns (Which also works as an untapper).

Some other random cards that work really well with the deck are Grave Pact and Skullclamp. Some additional rats that I include are Rats of Rath, Kuro's Taken, Crypt Rats (Spiteful board wipes for the win) and Infected Vermin. A few of which can act as sac outlets to allow things like Grave Pact to work, or to prevent your opponent from doing nasty things like tucking your general with, say, Terminus (Though in that case I usually just sac him to himself).

Anyways! Best of luck overrunning people with Rats!

[Foxmar]

Nice! Thanks Ill look into some of these cards. I actually have Puppet Strings and Thornbite Staff already somewhere. I almost ordered Konda's Banner when I was building my deck.

Looks like I won't get to test this deck anytime soon. My LGS has stopped carrying Magic due to "lack of interest" and some of my friends who played either quit or moved. I now only have one friend I can play with and he has no interest in Commander.