---
name: "Rotting Rats"
mana_cost: "{1}{B}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Creature — Zombie Rat"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Unearth"]
set: "HOP"
set_name: "Planechase"
collector_number: "39"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Dave Allsop"
oracle_id: "1f361ae9-98a2-40ff-a579-fa5b9f510df4"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/rotting-rats-hop"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "legal"
---

# Rotting Rats
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{B}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Creature — Zombie Rat
- **Keywords:** Unearth

## Oracle Text
When this creature enters, each player discards a card.
Unearth {1}{B} ({1}{B}: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step or if it would leave the battlefield. Unearth only as a sorcery.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Ravenous Rats](/printing/ravenous-rats-gvl.md) — Creature — Rat
2. [Sanity Gnawers](/printing/sanity-gnawers-arb.md) — Creature — Rat
3. [Dirty Rat](/printing/dirty-rat-und.md) — Host Creature — Rat
4. [Earsplitting Rats](/printing/earsplitting-rats-jud.md) — Creature — Rat
5. [Drainpipe Vermin](/printing/drainpipe-vermin-jmp.md) — Creature — Rat
6. [Rottenheart Ghoul](/printing/rottenheart-ghoul-soi.md) — Creature — Zombie

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Planechase (HOP) #39
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Dave Allsop

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2009-02-01)* When Rotting Rats's "enters" ability resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses a card to discard, then each other player in turn order does the same, then all cards are discarded at the same time. No one sees what the other players are discarding before deciding which card to discard.