“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”- Edmund Burke
Hi everyone. I'm trying to develop a 1v1 combo deck using Marrow-Gnawer. This is a rough first build, so I would greatly appreciate some guidance and suggestions.
Rats are my favorite tribe. No, seriously. I know there are much better ones (wizards comes to mind) but something about drowning an opponent in vermin is hilarious to me. It might also be that an old mentor's parting gift given to me as a child was my first MTG deck: a rat deck. (It was surprisingly good back in the day.)
Marrow-Gnawer is really the only general that facilitates a rat-focused strategy, but he does it wonderfully. Exponential token generation and great flavor with some solid interactions. Definitely not tier 1, or 2, or maybe even 3, but that so doesn't matter. He's extraordinarily fun. Besides, after building Azami combo and a depressingly expensive stax deck, I'm looking forward to something semi-casual.
This deck can win one of a few ways. The primary method is the the combo, Marrow-Gnawer + Thornbite Staff + at least two other rats. It works like this:
Marrow-Gnawer taps to sac a rat to make more rats. The ability sees two rats after sacing the third, so two tokens are made.
The second part of Thornbite Staff's first ability sees a creature dying and causes Marrow-Gnawer to untap.
Exponential rat generation can be done infinitely.
From here there are a couple of different interations:
Blasting Station can be added to the combo to create infinite damage to the opponent
Ashnod's Altar has infinite creatures to produce infinite mana. With Skullclamp, the deck can be drawn. With Profane Command, the opponent can lose infinite life.
Hatred can be used with Marrow-Gnawer to alpha strike for lethal general damage. Very often, the fact that he gives himself Fear makes him unblockable. Sure, this trick probably works only once, but it's incredibly hilarious.
7/30/2015
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Coat of Arms
- Unearth
+ Lightning Greaves
+ Ring of Three Wishes
+ Phyrexian Reclamation
7/31/2015
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Evolving Wilds
- Besech the Queen
- Ring of Three Wishes
- Kuro's Taken
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Rend Flesh
+ 2 Swamp
+ Demonic Tutor (lol why was this not in there)
+ Insidious Dreams
+ Meekstone
+ Crypt Ghast
+ Murder
8/6/2016
- Victimize
+ Swamp (Need more land drops)
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”- Edmund Burke
Hi everyone. I'm trying to develop a 1v1 combo deck using Marrow-Gnawer. This is a rough first build, so I would greatly appreciate some guidance and suggestions.
Rats are my favorite tribe. No, seriously. I know there are much better ones (wizards comes to mind) but something about drowning an opponent in vermin is hilarious to me. It might also be that an old mentor's parting gift given to me as a child was my first MTG deck: a rat deck. (It was surprisingly good back in the day.)
Marrow-Gnawer is really the only general that facilitates a rat-focused strategy, but he does it wonderfully. Exponential token generation and great flavor with some solid interactions. Definitely not tier 1, or 2, or maybe even 3, but that so doesn't matter. He's extraordinarily fun. Besides, after building Azami combo and a depressingly expensive stax deck, I'm looking forward to something semi-casual.
This decklist can also be found on Tapped Out here: http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/marrow-gnawer-combo/
1 Marrow-Gnawer
Creatures
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Chittering Rats
1 Crypt Rats
1 Diseased Vermin
1 Gnat Miser
1 Infected Vermin
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Nezumi Graverobber
1 Nezumi Ronin
1 Nezumi Shortfang
1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
1 Pack Rat
1 Pestilence Rats
1 Rancid Rats
1 Ratcatcher
1 Ravenous Rats
1 Skullsnatcher
1 Stronghold Rats
1 Swarm of Rats
1 Throat Slitter
Artifacts
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Blasting Station
1 Extraplanar Lens
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Jet Medallion
1 Riptide Replicator
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Soul Foundry
1 Thornbite Staff
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Meekstone
1 Mutilate
1 Beacon of Unrest
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Profane Command
1 Read the Bones
1 Sign in Blood
1 Lab Rats
Instants
1 Gravepurge
1 Hatred
1 Hero's Downfall
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Shred Memory
1 Sudden Death
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Insidious Dreams
Enchantments
1 Attrition
1 Bitterblossom
1 Black Market
1 Contamination
1 Gate to Phyrexia
1 Grave Pact
1 Greed
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Death Pits of Rath
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
1 Liliana Vess
Lands
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mutavault
1 Swarmyard
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 Volrath's Stronghold
28 Swamp
1 Marrow-Gnawer
Combo Pieces
1 Thornbite Staff
1 Blasting Station
1 Ashnod's Altar
Rats!
1 Chittering Rats
1 Crypt Rats
1 Diseased Vermin
1 Gnat Miser
1 Infected Vermin
1 Ink-Eyes, Servant of Oni
1 Nezumi Graverobber
1 Nezumi Ronin
1 Nezumi Shortfang
1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
1 Pack Rat
1 Pestilence Rats
1 Rancid Rats
1 Ravenous Rats
1 Skullsnatcher
1 Stronghold Rats
1 Swarm of Rats
1 Throat Slitter
Token Production
1 Lab Rats
1 Bitterblossom
1 Riptide Replicator
1 Soul Foundry
1 Attrition
1 Gate to Phyrexia
1 Hero's Downfall
1 Slaughter Pact
1 Sudden Death
1 Mutilate
1 Black Sun's Zenith
Mana Ramp
1 Black Market
1 Extraplanar Lens
1 Gauntlet of Power
1 Jet Medallion
1 Sol Ring
1 Liliana of the Dark Realms
1 Crypt Ghast
Tutor/Draw
1 Ratcatcher
1 Greed
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Skullclamp
1 Shred Memory
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Read the Bones
1 Sign in Blood
1 Liliana Vess
1 Insidious Dreams
1 Oversold Cemetery
1 Gravepurge
1 Beacon of Unrest
Disruption
1 Contamination
1 Grave Pact
1 Hatred
1 Meekstone
Support/Utility
1 Death Pits of Rath
1 Scroll Rack
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Lightning Greaves
1 Profane Command
Lands
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Mutavault
1 Swarmyard
1 Marsh Flats
1 Verdant Catacombs
28 Swamp
From here there are a couple of different interations:
Alternate win conditions:
1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
1 Mind Twist
1 Pestilence
1 Staff of Domination
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Mind Slash
1 Devour in Shadow
1 Dismember
1 Mimic Vat
- Umezawa's Jitte
- Coat of Arms
- Unearth
+ Lightning Greaves
+ Ring of Three Wishes
+ Phyrexian Reclamation
7/31/2015
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Evolving Wilds
- Besech the Queen
- Ring of Three Wishes
- Kuro's Taken
- Phyrexian Reclamation
- Rend Flesh
+ 2 Swamp
+ Demonic Tutor (lol why was this not in there)
+ Insidious Dreams
+ Meekstone
+ Crypt Ghast
+ Murder
8/6/2016
- Victimize
+ Swamp (Need more land drops)
8/10/2016
- Damnation
- Ob Nixilis Reignited
+ 1 Swamp
+ Liliana Vess
8/13/2016
- Mutilate
+ Black Sun's Zenith
11/24/2016
- Ashes to Ashes
- Murder
- Ogre Slumlord
- Pontiff of Blight
+ Lab Rats
+ Death Pits of Rath
+ Slaughter Pact
+ Mutilate
UAzami, Locus of All KnowledgeU
BMarrow-Gnawer, Crime Lord of ComboB
WBRTariel, Hellraiser StaxWBR
Annul is really good in EDH