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Marrow-Gnawer is one of the best Rat commanders available inMagic: The Gathering.
Power at any cost, black is one of Magic: The Gathering’s most complex colors.
Rats work best when played together, and Marrow-Gnawer is the perfect commander for the job.
The more important ability is its activated ability to sacrifice a Rat to put Rat tokens into play.
It willalways double the number of Rats you have, increasing your board presence with one activation.
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarmquickly becomes the strongest Rat in the deck once it hits the battlefield.
Theeffect to mill fourat the end step can be useful for getting Rats into your hand that got removed.
Notably, the returned Rats don’t have to be among the cards milled.
Themain attraction is giving your Rats toxic one, however.
One of the very few non-Rat creatures,Mirkwood Batsdoes too much for the deck to not include.
Itturnsany token creationinto burn damageto every opponent.
As an added bonus,it’ll burn when you sacrifice tokens as well.
This turns what would normally be mostly 1/1 Rat tokens into massive threats that arenear-impossible to defeat in combat.
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This is accomplished with artifacts likeIllusionist’s BracersandMagewright’s Stonewhich let you re-trigger Marrow-Gnawer.
Although the new Rats have summoning sickness,Crashing Drawbridgecan give them haste the turn they enter.
Even if they’re 1/1s, with so many that can be enough.
When stat-boosting effects are tossed in, it becomes even easier to win quickly.
The best Rat commanders in MTG are savagely nestled inside your opponents walls.
