Hello! ☺️
I need help cutting about 10 cards from this list. Are my ratios good? I am struggling with this list as it is my first “any-number-of” deck and I am struggling.
#Relentless Rats Cuts
fiery sigil
Gameplan is that I gift rats to my opponents and watch them fight as the rats grow and grow
lean garden
[[relentless rats]]
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
ah nice, they see every rat on the board so it will literally be rat everywhere XD
lean garden
trying to see if there are alternative to phyrexian arena
[[castle locthwain]] is worse than [[war room]] almost every time
dusk sparrowBOT
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a Swamp.
: Add 
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, : Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Without Locthwain's persistence, the realm would stagnate and die.
Land
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, , Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
A figure is moved on a map, and the tide of war changes.
lean garden
blue has some interesting ways of mass control swap but without haste they often cant attack
commander itself should be drawing quite a bit of cards to begin with so i would rate protection/counterspell to boardwipes to be more important than just pure card advantage draw spells
instead of [[hero downfall]] i feel like [[echoing truth]] is more fitting
lean garden
more variety on what you can target is good too
[[!resculpt]] is fine but those tokens are owned by your opponent anyways so there isnt really synergy, just kinda a slightly more flexible [[rapid hydrization]]
lean garden
i would actually prefer 2 for 1 removes or tribal wipes such as [[crippling fear]]
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
while it would kill the commander, the goaded rats being around would cause much more damage than other small chump blockers
other than that, i think it would come down to balancing the blue and black pips in the deck since this is nearly a 90% mono black deck
i would avoid Diabolic Tutor over something that cost about 3 mana just because it overlaps with commander;'s curve
thumbling stone is nice but with this many rats, perhaps the most powerful artifact is the medallion as long as you can keep your card advantage going
2 mana rats with X+4 power are kind of crazy
and then a side note for a weird "jank" combo would be playing things such as [[The END]] that can
dusk sparrowBOT
Instant
This spell costs 
less to cast if your life total is 5 or less.
Exile target creature or planeswalker. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that permanent and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.
lean garden
cut down your deck as much as you want and thin out the 99 by ANY NUMBER as you fail to find or have enough out already
[[surgical extraction]][[pirated copy]] [[mocking doppelganger]]
dusk sparrowBOT
Instant
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can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Choose target card in a graveyard other than a basic land card. Search its owner's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that card and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
lean garden
in the case where you find an ability that flicker every creature on the board, as they come back under the OWNER's control, you will keep all the rats
i dont think this will have a place here but a commonly missed line on [[mirror box]] is the anthem effects for same name cards
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
there is also [[bile blight]] in place of crippling fear but its a lot weaker
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
[[mitotic manipulation]] [[retraced image]] aka basic ramp
lean garden
[[mask of the mimic]]
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
i think the hardest counter to same name is either [[leyline of singularity]] and [[eye of singulurity]] both no one really main deck but enchantments are hard to deal with in general
lean garden
<@391063794387910656> Got any recommendations for cards to cut?
so i dont really have too many direct cuts as i think that removal/protection are more preferential, but with a draw engine commander and same name creatures, there is a lot more to explore both for theme and synergy
i know lot of people likes [[withering torment]] as the instant enchantment removal but i didnt even bother buying it
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
and you need to prepare lot of rat puns and jokes before the game starts
if you need tokens, try to go with Cheese
fiery sigil
Wow, thank you so much for all of the advice!!!! I will definitely go through all of this and make some changes. Appreciate you!!
lean garden
Np, out of all the same name cards, i think relentless rat or lowkey maybe apostle is still the coolest ones out there. I want to tutor for [[Lost legacy]] myself to super thin out my deck and replace my rats in hand with new cards
dusk sparrowBOT
lean garden
counterintuitive wheel i know but i will have a 50 ish card deck instead of 99. I am playing 60 cards format in commander XD
fiery sigil
Clever!
lean garden
idk, secret commander has problems, and if it fails thats a lot of $ down the drain
and its only 60 deck by design since i cannot change the singleton part of the rule for the remaining part of the deck; there are still no consistency in the rest of the game plan
and it will also mess with the land : non-land ratio
fiery sigil
[[surgical extraction]][[pirated copy]] [[mocking doppelganger]]
Wow, I didnt realize just how good Pirated Copy is in this deck. Definitely going in
fiery sigil
@lean garden, I played this deck for the second time and had a blast with it, and the table did too. Thanks for all the advice amigo