Pack Rat
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Type
- Creature — Rat
- Power / toughness
- * / *
- Set
- Return to Ravnica #73 (rare)
- Price
- $3.24 USD
Pack Rat's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Rats you control.
{2}{B}, Discard a card: Create a token that's a copy of this creature.
Pack Rat has 7 printings, first in Return to Ravnica (2012). EDHREC ranks it #3,762 among Commander cards. It appears most in Marrow-Gnawer decks (11,389 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Pack Rat most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Marrow-Gnawer: 11,389 decks
- Wick, the Whorled Mind: 8,265 decks
- Vren, the Relentless: 6,426 decks
- Karumonix, the Rat King: 5,144 decks
- Rat King, Verminister: 2,981 decks
- Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm: 2,661 decks
- Totentanz, Swarm Piper: 1,159 decks
- Greasefang, Okiba Boss: 883 decks
Often played with Pack Rat
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If Pack Rat leaves the battlefield before its activated ability resolves, the token will still enter the battlefield as a copy of Pack Rat, using Pack Rat's copiable values from when it was last on the battlefield.
- : The token won't copy counters on Pack Rat, nor will it copy other effects that have changed Pack Rat's power, toughness, types, color, or so on. Normally, this means the token will simply be a Pack Rat. But if any copy effects have affected that Pack Rat, they're taken into account.
- : The token will copy Pack Rat's two abilities. Its power and toughness will be equal to the number of Rats you control (not the number of Rats you controlled when the token entered the battlefield). It will also be able to create copies of itself.
- : Pack Rat's first ability counts any creature you control with the creature type Rat, not just Pack Rats. That ability works in all zones, not only the battlefield.