Tunnel Rats
Creature — Rat
: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #23706
Tunnel Rats forces each opponent to sacrifice a creature with the highest power among their creatures — a repeatable, evasion-punishing effect stapled to a one-mana body. The cost is real: it only taxes players who control a creature with greater power than all others they own, so in practice it's most reliable as a combo piece or in decks that flatten the board before swinging.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Tunnel Rats is a niche inclusion — its sacrifice trigger is politically interesting but inconsistent across four players with wildly different boards, and it competes for space with cleaner interaction. In Pauper, where creature power levels are compressed and the format is common-only, Tunnel Rats finds the most natural home, punishing stompy decks reliably and fitting into sacrifice synergies. Across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's outclassed by removal that doesn't depend on your opponent's board state to function. Standard and Oathbreaker are similarly unfavorable unless a specific combo context makes the sacrifice trigger worth engineering around.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Tunnel Rats is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than order. There's no price pressure driving it up, and its narrow application keeps it there.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.