Stronghold Rats
- Mana cost
- {2}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Rat
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 1
- Set
- The List #FUT-79 (uncommon)
Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, each player discards a card.
Stronghold Rats has 3 printings, first in Future Sight (2007). EDHREC ranks it #7,709 among Commander cards. It appears most in Tinybones, Bauble Burglar decks (3,106 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Stronghold Rats most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Tinybones, Bauble Burglar: 3,106 decks
- Karumonix, the Rat King: 2,889 decks
- Marrow-Gnawer: 1,929 decks
- Tinybones, Trinket Thief: 1,236 decks
- Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern: 1,127 decks
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm: 769 decks
- Malfegor: 513 decks
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead: 469 decks
Often played with Stronghold Rats
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : While resolving the triggered ability of Stronghold Rats, each player chooses a card in hand without revealing it, then all of the cards are discarded at the same time.
- : If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.
- : Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.
- : Once a creature has been blocked, that creature remains blocked and will deal and be dealt combat damage even if it gains or loses shadow or if the blocking creature gains or loses shadow.