Marrow-Gnawer

Marrow-Gnawer is your rat army general that turns sacrifice into exponential token generation. Each time you tap and sacrifice a rat, you create tokens equal to your rat count—meaning a board of five rats becomes ten, then twenty, then forty. The deck's core loop is generating rats, sacrificing them for value (draw, damage, recursion), and immediately rebuilding into a larger army. You're not trying to kill via combat damage alone; instead, you're assembling a rat engine that generates card advantage and mana while your board grows out of control.

Build around cheap rat generators and sacrifice outlets to maximize the feedback loop. Cards like Rat Colony and Pack Rat let you build rat density quickly, while Zulaport Cutthroat and Blood Artist turn each sacrifice into direct damage. The deck plays like a self-contained combo engine: you need velocity and redundancy so you're constantly sacrificing and rebuilding. Win by either overwhelming opponents with an unstoppable rat swarm or by accumulating enough life drain triggers to close out the game.

This is a mono-black aristocrats deck with a rat tribal shell. Your ramp comes from token generation, and your threats are your own tokens plus Marrow-Gnawer itself. The deck rewards patience and sequencing—knowing when to sacrifice versus when to hold back.

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