| Name | Rat King, Verminister  |
|---|---|
| Type | Legendary creature — rat avatar |
| Description | Disappear — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, create a 1/1 black Rat creature token and put a +1/+1 counter on Rat King.
 , Sacrifice three Rats: Return target creature card and allSee more |
| Artist | Miklós Ligeti |
| Set | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #266 |
| Wallpaper |  download |
| Image |  download |
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Rat King, Verminister, Legendary creature — rat avatar, designed by Miklós Ligeti first released in Jan, 2026 in the set Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and was printed exactly in 2 different ways.
Rat King, Verminister would fit best in a mono-black Aristocrats or Rat-tribal sacrifice deck that consistently sacrifices its own permanents (tokens, Blood/Clue/Food, disposable creatures) to trigger the end-step token generation while growing it into a real threat; it pairs especially well with cards like **Ophiomancer**, **Bitterblossom**, **Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia**, **Pitiless Plunderer**, and free sac outlets such as **Viscera Seer** or **Carrion Feeder**, and the tap ability strongly rewards self-mill or discard strategies by reanimating a key creature and all copies (devastating with cards like **Gray Merchant of Asphodel**, **Relentless Rats**, or **Rat Colony** in non-singleton formats). That said, in competitive formats it likely faces stiff competition from more efficient engines like **Yawgmoth, Thran Physician** (far stronger sac payoff), **Marrow-Gnawer** (better dedicated Rat commander), or premium reanimation spells like **Reanimate** and **Animate Dead**, which
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