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Pack Rat

Creature — Rat

Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control.
{2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of this creature.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
$1.85
EDHREC rank
#3377
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Pack Rat card art
Pack Rat turns any dead card in hand into a self-replicating army — one activation is a threat, three is a game, and the copies come in at whatever size the swarm has grown to. Commanders like Marrow-Gnawer and Mairsil, the Pretender push it into broken territory, but even without tribal support Pack Rat earns its slot on raw snowball potential alone.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer

79.2% of decks · synergy 0.73

Marrow-Gnawer's ability to untap Rats and generate tokens turns Pack Rat's pay-two-discard activation into a numbers problem opponents can't solve — every new Rat is another body Marrow-Gnawer can tap to produce even more.

04
Wick, the Whorled Mind

Wick, the Whorled Mind

67.9% of decks · synergy 0.65

Wick, the Whorled Mind rewards discarding cards for value, which means Pack Rat's activation cost stops being a cost — every discard fuels both engines simultaneously.

05
Totentanz, Swarm Piper

Totentanz, Swarm Piper

64.6% of decks · synergy 0.64

Totentanz, Swarm Piper converts any Rat death into a token, so a board wipe aimed at your Pack Rat tokens just refills the board at no extra investment.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Pack Rat is at its highest ceiling — 40 life and multiplayer politics give you time to activate two or three times, and Rat tribal commanders turn it into a primary win condition. In Legacy and Vintage it earned genuine tournament respect as a discard outlet that can close games by itself when opponents stumble, though faster combo environments have pushed it to the fringe. Modern and Pioneer are too efficient to let a two-mana creature demand three-mana activations at sorcery-speed scale; it sees fringe play at best in those formats. Wherever it's legal, Pack Rat rewards the same thing: resolving it early and protecting it for one full turn cycle.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.85 cheap tier

At $1.85, Pack Rat sits in the cheap tier and is straightforwardly worth the slot in any black strategy that can use it. The price reflects wide reprint availability rather than low demand — it's an easy include that won't spike.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.