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Stronghold Rats

Creature — Rat MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

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.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2021-03-19

    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.

  • 2021-03-19

    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.

  • 2021-03-19

    Multiple instances of shadow on the same creature are redundant.

  • 2021-03-19

    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.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Stronghold Rats, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Marrow-Gnawer 1 0 —
Tinybones, Trinket Thief 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-Black 2 decks

Every version of Stronghold Rats

3 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Stronghold Rats — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.