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Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer

Legendary Creature — Rat Rogue · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander

All Rats have fear. {T}, Sacrifice a Rat: Create X 1/1 black Rat creature tokens, where X is the number of Rats you control.
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What Marrow-Gnawer actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Marrow-Gnawer deck needs

Plays as rat typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Marrow-Gnawer deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Marrow-Gnawer

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  5. Lavaspur Boots1 mana
  6. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  7. Haunted Cloak3 mana
  8. Sword of Vengeance3 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Sting, the Glinting Dagger2 mana
  2. Umbral Mantle3 mana
  3. Genji Glove5 mana
  4. Honor-Worn Shaku3 mana
  5. Sword of the Paruns4 mana
  6. Deserted Temple0 mana
  7. Leyline Dowser2 mana
  8. Pip-Boy 30001 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  2. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  3. Burglar Rat2 mana
  4. Gnat Miser1 mana
  5. Typhoid Rats1 mana
  6. Pitiless Plunderer4 mana
  7. Deadeye Tracker1 mana
  8. Drainpipe Vermin1 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Skeleton Crew4 mana
  2. Tangled Colony2 mana
  3. Nezumi Linkbreaker1 mana
  4. Wave of Rats4 mana
  5. Persistent Marshstalker2 mana
  6. Piper of the Swarm2 mana
  7. Rotting Rats2 mana
  8. Big Apple, 3 a.m.0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  2. Heraldic Banner3 mana
  3. Adaptive Automaton3 mana
  4. Chief of the Foundry3 mana
  5. Icon of Ancestry3 mana
  6. Banner of Kinship5 mana
  7. Vanquisher's Banner5 mana
  8. Door of Destinies4 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Herald's Horn3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Combos with Marrow-Gnawer

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Marrow-Gnawer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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