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Plague Rats
Oracle Text
Plague Rats's power and toughness are each equal to the number of creatures named Plague Rats on the battlefield.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Plague Rats is a classic black card that rewards a very straightforward, almost swarm-like game plan: go wide with copies of the same creature and let each draw its weight from the others. In practice, it fits best in aggro or casual tribal-style decks that can flood the board quickly, because a single Rat is modest, but two or three can become a real clock. Since its power and toughness scale only with other Plague Rats, the best deckbuilding tip is obvious but important: run as many copies as your format allows, and pair them with recursion or card draw to rebuild after removal. Effects that return creatures from the graveyard or protect your board help preserve its growing size. The card’s flavor is suitably grim, evoking a spreading infestation rather than an individual predator, which makes it especially satisfying when the battlefield turns into a swarm that snowballs out of control.
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Character Background
Plague Rats is a classic black card that rewards a very straightforward, almost swarm-like game plan: go wide with copies of the same creature and let each draw its weight from the others. In practice, it fits best in aggro or casual tribal-style decks that can flood the board quickly, because a single Rat is modest, but two or three can become a real clock. Since its power and toughness scale only with other Plague Rats, the best deckbuilding tip is obvious but important: run as many copies as your format allows, and pair them with recursion or card draw to rebuild after removal. Effects that return creatures from the graveyard or protect your board help preserve its growing size. The card’s flavor is suitably grim, evoking a spreading infestation rather than an individual predator, which makes it especially satisfying when the battlefield turns into a swarm that snowballs out of control.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 17:20:45 UTC