Balzer Commander (1) Planeswalker (1) Creatures (24) Ashcoat of the Shadow Swarm Blightbelly Rat Bog Rats Burglar Rat Changeling Outcast Drainpipe Vermin Gnat Miser Ichor Rats Lord Skitter, Sewer King Lord Skitter's Butcher Marrow-Gnawer Nashi, Moon Sage's Scion Nezumi Cutthroat Nezumi Informant Piper of the Swarm Rancid Rats Ravenous Rats Rotting Rats Septic Rats Stronghold Rats Tangled Colony Typhoid Rats Yawgmoth, Thran Physician Zodiac Rat Sorceries (9) Caress of Phyrexia Damnation Demonic Tutor Drown in Ichor Infectious Inquiry Mutilate Night's Whisper Phyresis Outbreak Read the Bones Instants (14) Anoint with Affliction Baleful Mastery Corrupted Conviction Dark Ritual Deadly Rollick Grim Affliction Liliana's Triumph Sheoldred's Edict Snuff Out Tainted Strike Vampiric Tutor Virulent Wound Vraska's Fall Whisper of the Dross Artifacts (9) Grafted Exoskeleton Herald's Horn Jet Medallion Sol Ring Glistening Sphere Staff of Compleation Swiftfoot Boots Sword of Truth and Justice The One Ring Enchantments (9) Black Market Connections Call of the Ring Cover of Darkness Glistening Oil Grave Pact Necrogen Communion Necropotence Phyresis The Eldest Reborn Lands (33) Cabal Coffers Cabal Stronghold Cavern of Souls Inkmoth Nexus Karn's Bastion Shizo, Death's Storehouse Spymaster's Vault Swamp x21 Swarmyard Takenuma, Abandoned Mire Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth War Room Witch's Cottage The poisonous rats create problems for any player foolish enough to take their first poison counter
Since no-one knew Magic was going to be a collectible, the (estimated) 1,008 copies of Lord of the Pit from Alpha saw truly brutal play
You cannot respond to discarding the card though, since that's a cost of activating the cycling ability
There are so many variants that it could merit a whole separate article on the subject
If you want more information on the Spellslinger strategy, you can read my Spellslinger Primer
The win condition strapped to it is nice to play to, and is likely to make it a popular card amongst the more casual players
