4 Ravenous Rats
4 Nezumi Shortfang
2 Balthor the Defiled
2 Marrow-Gnawer
3 Phyrexian Plaguelord
2 Patron of the Nezumi
3 Braids, Cabal Minion
4 Grave Pact
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Duress
4 Talisman of Indulgence
20 Swamp
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
3 Gods' Eye, Gate to the Reikai |
 Grave
Pact.
Description of deck by it's author
(quoted):
This deck uses Ravenous Rats and Nezumi
Shortfang to get ahead in cards and also to make the other discard that
much more potent. While there aren't many rats, Marrow-Gnawer doesn't
need much to create a sacrifice engine for the Grave Pact. Phyrexian
Plaguelord and Braids are both potentially able to be used for Grave
Pact triggers, and also help give the deck a bit more oomph if you
haven't drawn the Grave Pact.
There are some other random details about the deck that
make it different. Balthor doesn't trigger the Pact when you sacrifice it,
but it does bring back any of the creatures you've lost along the way to
have another go at it. The three Gods' Eye were put in as another thing to
feed to the Braids, and the Patron of the Nezumi is bound to be good if
people are losing their permanents to either a Braids, a Grave Pact, or a
Phyrexian Plaguelord.
Overall, the deck could go in a couple of different
directions. You could turn it into a straight Rat deck, and easily convert
it into Standard. The deck could go torward more of a Braids build, and
potential include cards like Rotlung Reanimator. You could also squeeze in
multiple colors. In Green, for example, you could fit in things like
Squirrel Nest, Genesis, or Birds of Paradise. Then again, you could just
go crazy like those judges in Philly, and include every complicated rare
under the sun that you can get your hands on that will just make the Grave
Pact a real head-scratcher for all of your opponents. Whatever you do,
it's easy to have fun when you have a Grave Pact on your side of the
table. |
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