Mad Ratter
Creature — Goblin
Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create two 1/1 black Rat creature tokens.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #10254
Mad Ratter turns every two-card draw into a free 1/1 Rat token, which in the right deck means a token flood that compounds fast. At three mana it's not free, but in any shell built around card draw or discard, the payoff outweighs the setup cost — Totentanz, Swarm Piper in particular treats it as a core piece, not a luxury.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Totentanz, Swarm Piper
Totentanz, Swarm Piper's entire gameplan is flooding the board with Rats, and Mad Ratter is one of the most reliable ways to do it — every draw-two spell or loot effect becomes a free token that Totentanz can immediately weaponize.
Wick, the Whorled Mind
Wick, the Whorled Mind draws cards repeatedly as a core function, and Mad Ratter converts each of those draw triggers into board presence — the two together create a self-sustaining engine where card advantage and token production reinforce each other every turn.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mad Ratter is a Commander card through and through — its payoff scales with the volume of card draw that multiplayer games naturally enable, and token-based strategies have far more support in 100-card singleton than anywhere else. In Modern or Pioneer it's too slow and too conditional; competitive decks in those formats aren't drawing two at a time on a schedule that justifies a three-mana do-nothing on its own. Legacy and Vintage have the raw draw power to trigger Mad Ratter repeatedly, but neither format wants a 3/2 creature that doesn't immediately affect the board. Stick to Commander, where draw-two effects are everywhere and Rat tokens have real tribal payoffs waiting for them.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Mad Ratter is firmly bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or cheap acquisition. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications don't tend to climb unless the tribe gets a breakout commander, so treat it as a cheap enabler rather than a spec target.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Totentanz, Swarm Piper
- Wick, the Whorled Mind
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.