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 Giant Rat-The Other Other Elemental searcher-By Alex P
Today I'm gonna review to me a VERY underrated card-Giant Rat
This is gonna be a LONG post so sit back grab a drink get comfy and start reading
 
For those of you who don't know Giant Rat is the Earth searcher of the elemental searches (Mystic Tomato Shining Angel ect) His stats are:
 Level 4 Earth Beast 1400/1450 When this card is sent to the graveyard as a result of battle you may select 1 EARTH monster with an ATK of 1500 or less from your deck and special summon it in attack mode-Earth is suprisingly a well supported Attribute and G. Rat helps that
Now Most people see Mystic Tomato and Shining Angel as the only good elemental searchers-Tomato for it's WIDE range of monsters Angel for Light and Chaos but to me Giant Rat holds just as much potential as Mystic Tomato-not to mention his defense blocks all basic control monsters (Don Zaloog ALL other Elemental searchers ect)
I Made a list of Monsters searchable by Giant Rat and  there uses:
Giant Rat (search out another one to make a half decent wall)
Exiled Force (It dies you get monster removal-Effective this is an essential part of ANY giant rat/earth based deck)
Injection Fairy Lily (The biggest easily summoned monster in the game! also another essential)
N.Momonga (It IS searchable by Giant Rat but usually if your running 3 you'll get it-it fits the theme and fuels Injection)
Pyramid Turtle (This Alone makes an AWESOME combo with G. Rat I'll discuss later)
Dream Clown (The Rats block until there aren't any more attack left summon this switch it to Def and watch your opponent's Jaw drop)
DD Crazy Beast (Witch in your way you don't want your opponent to have?-watch her delve into the Different Dimension!)
Mudoria (Could be more powerful than Injection in the right deck)
Legacy Hunter (Um...it's searchable by Rat...you'll almost never get the effect though)
Alpha/Gamma the Magnet warrior (Helps a Valykirion deck)
Giant Solider of Stone (It defends...)
DD Warrior (it isn't out yet but when it is it will be GODLY for rat decks)
Yeah..The First 5 were the best ones worth Noting for now the others are just extra things.
I didn't bother adding other things like Legul and Griggle because those are a bit too selective for a Giant Rat deck
 
Though the biggest problem with a Rat deck is too little searches that combo with eachother and it doesn't hold too many heavy hitters also you don't want to run too many torrential tributes-maybe none at all.
But a great combo as I said above is Giant Rat and Pyramid Turtle. Pyramid turtle allows you to add a completely different twist to this type of deck-Zombies
There are 3 Zombies that could fit this deck-Another Spirit Reaper Despair from the dark and of course-Vampire Lord!
Vampire Lord makes a quite beefy addition to this deck-and holds field advantage quite well
There are several Versions you can make Much like with other elemental searchers this is very versatile.
I hope this review changes your view on out furry little mongrel for the better and show you there's more to this game than reverting to the unstable Chaos the violent beatdown or being consumed by the dark-insted becoming one with the earth
OK enough with the wiccan stuff-just play him!
 
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