Carrion Rats
Torment 54 • common
- Set
- Torment
- Collector number
- 54
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- black mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Black
- Artist
- Edward P. Beard, Jr.
- Market price
- $0.16
What it does
Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, any player may exile a card from their graveyard. If a player does, this creature assigns no combat damage this turn.
"Just what I need—more competition."— Cabal grave robber
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Carrion Rats was released in 2002 as part of the Torment expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game. The set was designed to focus heavily on the color black, emphasizing themes of death, decay, and graveyard manipulation within the overarching Odyssey block. As a common creature card, it was intended to serve as a low-cost, synergistic utility piece for limited play environments, reflecting the set's mechanical commitment to cards that interact with the number of creatures in a player's discard pile.
The artwork was commissioned from illustrator Edward P. Beard, Jr., a prolific contributor to the game during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Beard’s illustration captures the creature's scavenging nature, utilizing a gritty, dark aesthetic that defined the visual language of the Torment set. The card is widely recognized by players for its thematic consistency with the set's narrative of a world suffering from a sunless, magical environmental collapse, where vermin thrive amidst the wreckage.
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About Carrion Rats
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