Muck Rats
Creature — Rat
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Starter 1999
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #21017
Muck Rats is a 1/1 for one mana with no relevant abilities — it trades a card and a mana for a body that dies to everything. The bar for a one-drop in Commander is "does something," and Muck Rats clears no part of that bar.
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 |
Muck Rats is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Pauper, where commons compete on rate, a vanilla 1/1 for one doesn't make the cut when Thraben Inspector and Gurmag Angler exist at the same rarity. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a body this small with no text. Commander is the worst fit of all — 99-card singleton formats punish low-impact one-drops hard, and Muck Rats offers nothing a deck could want.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Muck Rats sits in bulk territory, and the price is already generous for what it does. There is no demand curve that pushes this higher — buy it only if a specific personal project requires it, which is unlikely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.