Razortooth Rats
Creature — Rat
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #17733
Razortooth Rats is a 2/1 for four mana with intimidate — playable exactly nowhere except tribal shells that demand the Rat creature type. Karumonix, the Rat King is the only realistic home, and even there, it's a role-player you run for tribe count, not for stats.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Karumonix, the Rat King
Karumonix, the Rat King cares about stacking Rats to generate poison, and Razortooth Rats earns its slot purely as a tribe member — intimidate is a mild bonus in a deck that's already winning through infect damage rather than combat math.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Razortooth Rats is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive footprint is effectively zero outside Commander Rat tribal. In Pauper, a 2/1 for four with intimidate is unplayable — the format's creature bar is too high. In Legacy and Vintage, it doesn't register. Commander is the only format where Razortooth Rats sees real play, and even there it's a fringe inclusion driven entirely by Rat count requirements rather than raw card quality.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't available for Razortooth Rats at the moment — check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market values. Given its narrow tribal role and low competitive demand, it has historically been a bulk common or near-bulk uncommon, so expect it to be an easy pickup if you need it.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.