Revenge of the Rats
Sorcery
Create a tapped 1/1 black Rat creature token for each creature card in your graveyard.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Foundations
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #6644
Revenge of the Rats forces each opponent to discard a card and return a copy of itself to your hand — repeated hand destruction at sorcery speed for two mana per activation. In Totentanz, Swarm Piper decks it functions as both a discard engine and a Rat token generator the moment you start looping it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Totentanz, Swarm Piper
Totentanz, Swarm Piper converts each cast of Revenge of the Rats into a Rat token, so every loop through the card both strips hands and grows the board simultaneously.
Wick, the Whorled Mind
Wick, the Whorled Mind cares about opponents discarding, making Revenge of the Rats a repeatable trigger engine that compounds advantage every time you recast it.
Karumonix, the Rat King
Karumonix, the Rat King wants as many Rats entering the battlefield as possible, and Revenge of the Rats delivers a fresh Rat token on every cast in token-generating builds while keeping opponents' hands empty.
Rat King, Verminister
Rat King, Verminister rewards rat-heavy boards, and Revenge of the Rats fills that role while doubling as a persistent discard threat that opponents can't cleanly answer.
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm buffs Rats that enter the graveyard and recurs them, and Revenge of the Rats fits the self-replacing, graveyard-adjacent game plan Ashcoat wants to run.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Revenge of the Rats does its best work — three opponents means three discards per cast, and the built-in recursion means you never actually lose the card. In 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer it's a slower Thoughtseize variant with no targeting precision, which is a real liability; dedicated discard shells might run it as copies five through eight, but it won't displace the staples. Legacy and Vintage have enough broken discard already that Revenge of the Rats is strictly a budget substitute. Standard legality is functionally irrelevant — the card is fine in limited but competes poorly against more efficient threats in constructed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Revenge of the Rats is firmly bulk — a penny-bin pickup even at card shops. That price is stable; it's a common with a narrow audience, so there's no demand spike coming, but it's also cheap enough that anyone building a rat or discard deck has no reason not to own four.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Totentanz, Swarm Piper
- Wick, the Whorled Mind
- Karumonix, the Rat King
- Rat King, Verminister
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.