Dirty Wererat
Creature — Human Rat Minion
, Discard a card: Regenerate this creature.
Threshold — As long as there are seven or more cards in your graveyard, this creature gets +2/+2 and can't block.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hachette UK
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23304
Dirty Wererat trades an opponent's creature for itself on death, stapling a removal trigger onto a body — the value is real but gated behind dying, which means it needs enablers to fire consistently. It earns its slot in sacrifice-matters or aristocrats shells and almost nowhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dirty Wererat is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its home is clearly Pauper and Commander. In Pauper it competes in black-based sacrifice or attrition strategies where common-slot creatures with built-in removal are genuinely valuable. In Commander, Dirty Wererat is a role-player in aristocrats or reanimator lists that loop creatures through the graveyard — it's not a staple, but it pulls weight when you can trigger the death ability repeatedly. Legacy and Vintage have access to far more efficient threats and removal, so Dirty Wererat never sees play there.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Dirty Wererat, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its niche appeal as a common, it almost certainly sits at bulk pricing — pick up a copy without hesitation if the deck calls for it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.