Rabid Rats
Creature — Rat
: Target blocking creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Stronghold
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #22890
Rabid Rats forces an opponent to discard a card when it deals combat damage to them — a repeatable effect stapled to a 1/2 body for two mana. Playable only in dedicated rat tribal or discard strategies; outside that narrow lane, it's too fragile and too slow to earn a slot.
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 |
In Commander, Rabid Rats earns consideration almost exclusively in rat tribal builds where lord effects and mass token generation make connecting with combat damage realistic. Legacy and Vintage are both legal but would never run it — the effect is too small and the body too weak for those formats' threat density. Pauper is the most credible non-Commander home, where cheap discard-on-damage creatures can grind out advantage in slower creature mirrors, though even there competition from more efficient options is stiff.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Rabid Rats sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy outright. That price reflects actual demand and is unlikely to move unless a new rat-tribal commander pushes the archetype into wider play.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.