Gobhobbler Rats
Mana Cost:
Type: Creature — Rat
Oracle Text:
Hellbent — As long as you have no cards in hand, this creature gets +1/+0 and has "{B}: Regenerate this creature." (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)
Power/Toughness: 2/2
Rarity: common
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Ravnica Remastered
Price ( USD): $0.11
USD: $0.11 · EUR: €0.06
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Character Background
Gobhobbler Rats is a clean Rakdos pressure card that strongly rewards an aggressive, low-resource game plan, especially tempo-aggro or hellbent-style decks. A 2/2 for {B}{R} is already serviceable, and once your hand is empty it becomes a 3/2 with built-in resilience, forcing awkward blocks while threatening to survive removal with {B}: regenerate. That makes it especially appealing in decks that dump their hand quickly through cheap creatures, burn, and discard effects, or in shells using cards like Rakdos Guildmage-style resource denial and madness/discard payoffs to keep your hand low. The regeneration ability also matters in combat-heavy metas, letting you attack more freely into trades and many destroy effects. Lore-wise, the name and mechanics fit the Ravnican undercity scavenger vibe: feral rats thriving when resources run dry. In practice, it is at its best as a sticky, efficient beater that helps close games once you’ve emptied out.
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