Gnawer Puns

So more than a year after getting the Secret Lair, I'm setting out to build my [[Marrow-Gnawer]] AristocRATs deck. I'm wondering if there's any other Rat fans out there who can advise me on [[Rat Colony]].

Do I want any? If so, how many would you suggest running? I'm in the very early stages of brewing, and I'm not sure if I'll need them to just pad out my rat count (from past experience I feel like I'll want 16-24 rats or rat-makers). If I don't, I don't think they're impactful enough on their own, but Marrow-Gnawer would appreciate them as cheapish sacrifice fodder.

Any other sneaky Marrow-Gnawer tricks also appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I am building a rat deck with Marrow-Gnawer and only have to lose a couple more creatures and instants or sorceries. I'm now kind of stuck, because I don't know which are best to take out or leave in/add to the list.

If you have any additional advice on the deck, it is much appreciated!

The link to the deck: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/4483155#paper

I'm looking to get my secret santa a rat deck as he only has the midnight hunt zombie precon and we and some other friends are starting back up to play casually a few times a month. The budget I'd like to hit is ~$50-60 and bit more optimization. I've built the deck to mostly rat dump and doubling the board with the commander with some discard and aristocrat synergy to slow down other people and make an impact. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Deck link here.

Hi all! I am looking for feedback on this [[Marrow-Gnawer]] list I intend to give as a gift.

Very Merry Marrow-Gnawer

In lieu of the traditional [[Rat Colony]] beat down strategy, I wanted to go for more of a combo build. The main combo involves generating infinite rats with [[Thornbite Staff]] and leveraging them to either drain our opponents with the likes of [[Ayara]] or [[Bolas’s Citadel]] or potentially milling them out with [[Altar of Dementia]].

There’s a small aristocrats package that can potentially give us enough life to use Ayara and [[Plague of Vermin]] as a backup win-con. We also have [[Mortuary]] to use with Bolas’s Citadel and [[Zulaport Cutthroat]] to potentially drain folks out that way. And failing all that we can still try our luck at smashing face with some big rats.

So how does it look? There are absolutely more efficient and potent commanders to achieve similar ends but I’m looking to make the most of it even with these rodent restraints. Do the combos need more support? Is there anything that isn’t pulling its weight that could be cut for a better option? Thanks in advance!

Here's the deck so far (tapped out)

A friend suggested I put more card draw mechanics, and maybe [[Ayara, First of Locthwain]] . Would anyone throw some advice my way to make this deck a little better and more fun? Perhaps, if you could suggest what to swap for what--because I'm awful at that part lol. Thanks!

I’ve been thinking of playing a bone gnawer ahroun in an upcoming game a friend wants to run. And so I ask how would one generally act with pack mates and such?

This is the first commander deck I’m building completely from scratch and I’m struggling with figuring out which cards to take out. And what else to add. It revolves around Rat Colony and Thrumming Stone.

Decklist

https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/3857408#paper

Hello all, Hope that you're all well.

Looking at putting together Marrow-Gnawer as a commander but hung up on if i want to go relentless rats or rat colony.

Prefer the relentless rats in my opinion, seems it holds more resilience, despite being primarily an aggro deck, as it gains toughness unlike colony. Ideally want to avoid being locked out od game via effects such as plague engineer and ethereal absolution etc.

Colony looks like it snowballs faster gaining from all rats, not just from its own self/selves.

Any thoughts or experiences would be appreciated.

Will likely be testing tonight online.

First of all: despite the best efforts of some comedic actors, overall, Werewolves Within is not worth the box office ticket price. And, if you're doing a werewolf movie marathon, again, you've got better options.

[SPOILERS] That being said, I'd say that the titular werewolf in this is an excellent example of how a ragabash monkey-wrencher would go about sabotaging a gas pipeline.

Other people who've seen this film, your thoughts on how it would fit into either WoD or CoD?

hey guys. Yesterday i played magic with some good friends of mine for the first time and absolutely loved it. After coming away ive decided i want to make it a new hobbie of mine. ive watched a few videos on commander and like the idea of building a deck around marrow gnawer. The problem im having is deck builds i am seeing range in price drastically. Could anyone help me by telling me cards i definately need to include for good synergy etc or even give me a deck list. Id like a deck that isnt too expensive but will still allow me to hold my own when playing with friends. (£50-£100) if this is at all possible. Again i am a complete novice so any help would be appreciated

I’ve seen usual interpretation for them to be either or and I was wondering if there was like a rigid interpretation for it or something

And continuing on our world tour- suggest places that you think are local HQs for the Bone Gnawer Tribe. Canonically, the Bone Gnawers have caerns in Central Park NY, Washington DC, and Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. The most populous of all the tribes seems to have quality (12 canonically located caerns) over quantity, holding on in places that other Garou wouldn't even bother trying to save. What are other locations that you suggest are Bone Gnawer turfs?

I’m building a marrow gnawer commander deck around rat colony and thrumming stone. And I need some help cutting cards from it.

tappedout.net/mtg-decks/23-03-21-NVK-marrow-gnawer/?share=767620b3b682fe83846f3fd1be9e9dfa

Hallo everyone,

First time posting here.

I currently working on a Rat-tribal/disease-theme Deck with marrow-gnawer as the Commander. I got the Rat-tribal stuff I want to do together pretty quickly.

Now I‘m struggling with the diseases. I‘m looking for enchantments, instants and sorcerys that are named after (or are a reference to) real diseases and things associated with diseases.

I already got:

[[Pox]] [[Smallpox]] [[phthisis]] [[contamination]] [[Nettlevine blight]] [[pestilence]] [[traveling plague]] [[necrotic plague]] [[exotic disease]]

I‘m happy for all suggestions

Edit: Thank you all for your suggestions there are some interesting cards here. I hope i find enough Space in the Deck to fit the Cards i like

Hi all,

I've been building a Marrow-Gnawer deck for EDH in my playgroup. It's had a few tests now and hasn't got a win as yet. I am relatively happy with it but thought it might be worthwhile getting some fresh eyes on the deck.

Here's the link to the deck itself

Things I was wondering:

• I need to cut two cards, but at the moment I'm not sure what to cut
• Do I have enough card draw in here?
• I was looking at some global removal like [[Black Sun's Zenith]] or [[Toxic Deluge]].

I'd be grateful for any advice or thoughts. Thanks in advance.

I've posted a similar question before on this sub a long time ago, but I've made quite a few changes since then so I hope this doesn't violate the rules at all.

Real quick though, I just want to preface that I'm very well aware that Marrow-Gnawer nor rat tribal as a strategy in general is nowhere near cEDH-viable. However, my goal was to make this deck as good as it could possibly be considering our choice in commander and strategy's inherit limitations.

DECKLIST: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/nbGVZpyhD0CF3xGyAI6IwA

The main goal of the deck is to pump out as many rats as possible using either our commander or our other effects to combo out a win via one of our outlets. Alternatively, we utilize a self-mill strategy to fill our graveyard with rats in order to win with the effect of Mortal Combat.

BUDGET: Effectively limitless since I'm more than willing to proxy whatever I need.

WIN CONDITIONS:

Marrow-Ganwer + Thornbite Staff: Probably the most well-known and common combo in rat tribal decks. It's fairly basic and has the benefit of only requiring our commander and a single rat so we should almost always have access to it assuming we have the mana.

The only issue is that in order to win on our combo turn, we need some kind of outlet such as Ayara or Altar of Dementia. Otherwise, we need to wait for our next turn and hope we're able to swing into everyone with our infinite rats without getting blown out by the rest of the pod (which is likely since you've effectively announced you're going to win your next turn).

Secret Salvage / Peer Into the Abyss + Mortal Combat: The idea is to mill out our rats via end of turn discard in order to take advantage of Mortal Combat's effect to win the game. This can be done at instant speed to catch people off-guard with Emergence Zone as well in order to avoid announcing that you're going to win next turn and minimize the chance of being countered.

It also has the added benefit as serving as a back-up win condition should your rats be completely wiped after a failed combo attempt.

Ayara + Plague of Vermin: A simple, albeit expensive two-card combo that can instantly kill a table while also serving as an emergency plan if all our rats were to somehow get exiled or are otherwise unavailable.

META: Unfortunately, I don't have a set playgroup so I don't have a specific meta I need to prepare for. So until tha

When I first started playing MtG my first real deck was a rats deck. I had a [[Marrow-Gnawer]] back then, but lost it along with a lot of cards I used to have. Cut to now, I recently opened a foil Marrow-Gnawer from a Mystery Booster! I would love to build an edh rats deck, but haven't figured out exactly how I want to execute it. I have about 20+ [[Relentless Rats]] and a [[Thrumming Stone]] already, so that is one option. I also know a lot of rats have discard effects, so discard seems like an option too. I could also just get what rats I think are cool and just do plain rats tribal. Relentless rats sounds fun and gimmicky, but seems fragile and repetitive. Discard might not be super fun for people it plays against, but I don't think it's too mean to try it. And I'm just not familiar enough with the different cards available for a plain rat tribal deck. Does anyone have any recommendations for this type of deck? This would also be my first mono-color edh deck, so is there anything I should keep in mind with that?