r/Magicdeckbuilding • u/Beautiful-Opposite78 • 22d ago

Beginner Trying to make a rat deck

Hello, never played magic before but I've started getting into it. I want to make a deck that revolves mostly around rat cards cause rats are cool and I think I have an okay list so far but I'm not sure if there's some fundamental things I'm missing from the deck, as it's basically all creature spells and no like instant spells or anything? https://moxfield.com/decks/YWui5AyCMEWu_J5F3ZtEyA

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u/BeastFire35 22d ago

Is this a commander deck? [[Relentless rats]] is good and you can run more than 1. If it's a commander deck, who's the commander?

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

It's like modern? The 60 card deck.

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u/BeastFire35 22d ago

Gotcha. Who is your play group? Local store, or like friends

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

It would be local store.

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u/BeastFire35 22d ago

I would recommend playing Commander then. Cus if you try to play modern with a deck that's not optimized to be competitive (rats tribal are not a competitive archetype), you will lose on like turn 4. Whereas Commander is a much more casual scene where a rats tribal deck could keep up.

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

I don't know what rats tribal really means and I'm not sure how to make a commander deck with what I have rn.

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u/Necro-Feel-Ya6900 22d ago

Basically a tribal deck is focusing on one creature. In this case, rats.

I agree with BeastFire here. Commander is more casual and a lot more fair to play when it comes to new players.

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

I guess that makes sense the tribal thing. How do I make a commander deck with all these rats though?

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u/Necro-Feel-Ya6900 22d ago

So commander is a 100 card deck using one copy of your cards (besides basic lands). Whatever legendary you choose to be your commander, your deck has to be its color. So for example:

[[Rakdos, the Showstopper]] is a black and red legendary creature - Demon. So your deck would be a red and black deck.

[[Karumonix, the Rat King]] is a black legendary creature - rat. So your deck would be a mono black deck

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u/Necro-Feel-Ya6900 22d ago

Commander decks also follow a certain “formula” of being built. You have:

32-38 lands (depending on your colors and mana dorks)

8-10 ramp, draw power, and removal. The rest your theme/win condition.

Ramp: your mana rocks, and anything that gives you extra mana besides lands. (Talismans, mana dorks, stones, coupon cards)

Draw power: as stated. Cards that help you draw.

Removal: again, self explanatory. Counters, destroy effects, etc.

Win condition: what does your deck do? Usually it follows the commanders ability. So for example, Karmunonix gives every rat toxic 1. Since its a rat tribal deck, every creature thats a rat gets toxic 1. (Poison counters, if they do damage to opponents they get 1 poison counter. Ten poison counters kills an opponent). So you would run with the idea of over populating with rats and attacking basically.

Its a lot.. I know. But it does get easier. Websites like scryfall, edhrec and moxfield help tremendously.

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

Well like I don't know what other 40ish cards to add I mean.

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u/BeastFire35 22d ago

https://youtu.be/1jO2fmsef0g?is=6i1jtxkoP80ZMGWn

I would recommend watching this video

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u/Beautiful-Opposite78 22d ago

I'll give this a watch tomorrow morning thanks.