Patron of the Nezumi
Legendary Creature — Spirit
Rat offering (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant by sacrificing a Rat and paying the difference in mana costs between this and the sacrificed Rat. Mana cost includes color.)
Whenever a permanent is put into an opponent's graveyard, that player loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 7
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander Anthology Volume II
- Price
- $0.47
- EDHREC rank
- #17148
Patron of the Nezumi turns every death trigger in your deck into a forced life-loss effect — opponents bleed one life each time any permanent you control hits the graveyard, and in a token or sacrifice shell that number compounds fast. Seven mana is steep, but the payoff is a passive drain engine that operates at instant speed and requires no additional investment.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Patron of the Nezumi is genuinely worth sleeving — three opponents means every trigger hits for three life, and sacrifice or token shells can chain dozens of triggers in a single turn cycle. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; seven mana for a passive drain effect has no competitive home when those formats end on turn two or three. Modern is the same story: the rate is wrong for the format's speed, and no synergy deck there wants a seven-drop that doesn't close the game immediately. Patron of the Nezumi is a Commander card through and through.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.47 bulk tier
At $0.47, Patron of the Nezumi sits firmly in bulk territory — you're paying for the effect, not the card. Bulk rares with narrow but real Commander applications tend to stay flat, so this is a safe pickup whenever you need it without any price anxiety.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.