Rotting Rats
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Zombie Rat
- Power / toughness
- 1 / 1
- Set
- Planechase #39 (common)
- Price
- $1.59 USD
When this creature enters, each player discards a card.
Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)
Rotting Rats has 2 printings, first in Planechase (2009). EDHREC ranks it #8,665 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tinybones, Bauble Burglar decks (2,976 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Rotting Rats most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar: 2,976 decks
- Tinybones, Trinket Thief: 2,138 decks
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 1,958 decks
- Karumonix, the Rat King: 954 decks
- Marrow-Gnawer: 888 decks
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead: 377 decks
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm: 334 decks
- Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger: 260 decks
Often played with Rotting Rats
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : When Rotting Rats's "enters" ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a card to discard, then each other player in turn order does the same, then all cards are discarded at the same time. No one sees what the other players are discarding before deciding which card to discard.