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Lord Skitter, Sewer King
Legendary Creature — Rat Noble · {2}{B} · Black commander
Whenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
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What Lord Skitter, Sewer King actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhenever another Rat you control enters, exile up to one target card from an opponent's graveyard.
- Triggered ability · beginning_of_combatAt the beginning of combat on your turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token with "This token can't block."
What a Lord Skitter, Sewer King deck needs
Plays as rat typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- rat creatures (its text counts them)
The Lord Skitter, Sewer King deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 33× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Lord Skitter, Sewer King
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Greedy Freebooter1 mana
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Burglar Rat2 mana
- Gnat Miser1 mana
- Typhoid Rats1 mana
- Pitiless Plunderer4 mana
- Deadeye Tracker1 mana
- Drainpipe Vermin1 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Adaptive Automaton3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Icon of Ancestry3 mana
- Banner of Kinship5 mana
- Vanquisher's Banner5 mana
- Door of Destinies4 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Lord Skitter, Sewer King
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Lord Skitter, Sewer King is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Earthcraft + Maskwood Nexus
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Pitiless Plunderer + Maskwood Nexus
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Earthcraft + Xenograft
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Pitiless Plunderer + Xenograft
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Earthcraft + Arcane Adaptation
- Lord Skitter, Sewer King + Void Attendant + Pitiless Plunderer + Arcane Adaptation