Rats of Rath
Creature — Rat
: Destroy target artifact, creature, or land you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23149
Rats of Rath turns every creature you control into a potential land-destruction engine, strapping a repeatable 'tap to destroy target land' ability onto your whole board. The cost is real — you're sacrificing those creatures' combat utility and tapping them down — but in the right shell, that trade is a feature, not a bug.
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 |
Rats of Rath is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card — the effect is too slow and setup-heavy for Legacy or Vintage, where land destruction needs to be immediate and efficient. In Pauper it's technically playable but land destruction strategies there favor cheaper, more direct spells. Commander is where Rats of Rath earns its slot, specifically in decks that can flood the board with expendable creatures — tokens, sacrifice loops, or tap-synergy builds — and want a persistent, hard-to-hate-out land disruption package spread across multiple bodies rather than concentrated in one card.
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Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Rats of Rath isn't currently available in our database, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate. Given its narrow application and age, it historically sits in bulk-rare territory, making it an easy inclusion if the effect fits your strategy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.