For strategic advantage and lore gains, consider cards like Pride Lands, Maleficent, or Jafar in your deck lineup
Skip the $20+ cards (Thrumming Stone, Coat of Arms, Cover of Darkness) and the deck still hums: Commander: Karumonix, the Rat King (~$1) Engines: Pack Rat (~$3.30), Piper of the Swarm (~$3), Ogre Slumlord (~$0.45), a couple of Relentless Rats / Rat Colony (~$56 each cap the copies to stay on budget) Payoffs/utility: Crypt Rats (~$0.50), Nezumi Bone-Reader (~$0.40), Bontu the Glorified (~$3) as a sac outlet, Throne of the God-Pharaoh only if budget allows The rest: cheap black removal, Swamps, and a Sol Ring The whole list comes in well under $50, and it scales up gracefully add Marrow-Gnawer and Thrumming Stone later and the same shell jumps several power levels
But ultimately, Geralf feels lost to time
Namaari Morning Mist and Li Shang Newly Promoted can challenge ready characters, and Mulan Imperial General can allow your other characters to challenge ready characters if she has challenged a character this turn
Its slow and costs three colors, which are significant downsides, but Muldrotha could be good in the right deck
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