CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€99.30of €100.00
Overall win rate
26%66 wins in 253 scored games
Games
270 (17)played in 27 tournaments, 17 not scored (time limit)
Rank
29in the rankings up to €100 · Elo 1524 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
0of at most 3 allowed
Combos
7complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €100 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (34)

Planeswalkers (1)

Instants (10)

Sorceries (6)

Artifacts (7)

Enchantments (7)

Lands (34)

Chatterfang, Squirrel General
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (7)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    8 versions, each with one of: Zulaport Cutthroat · Blood Artist · Academy Manufactor · Peregrin Took · Bastion of Remembrance · Nadier's Nightblade and 2 more
  • Ivy Lane Denizen + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite scry 1
    3 versions, each with one of: Scurry Oak · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    2 versions, each with one of: Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Hazel's Brewmaster + Gilded Goose → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Hazel's Brewmaster + Gourmand's Talent + Academy Manufactor + Gilded Goose → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite tapped Food tokens
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Gourmand's Talent → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 17 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 17 entries
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen → Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature tokens, Infinite creature ETB
  • Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat + Chatterfang, Squirrel General → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Academy Manufactor → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Hazel's Brewmaster + Gilded Goose → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Peregrin Took → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Bastion of Remembrance → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Nadier's Nightblade → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Moldervine Reclamation → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Prosperous Innkeeper → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Hazel's Brewmaster + Gourmand's Talent + Academy Manufactor + Gilded Goose → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite tapped Food tokens
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Gourmand's Talent → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + Viscera Seer → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + Woe Strider → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Ivy Lane Denizen + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite scry 1
  • Ivy Lane Denizen + Woe Strider → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite scry 1

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Beast Within: AI can't play it
  • Cloakwood Hermit: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Drey Keeper: swapped for a test
  • Golgari Signet: AI can't play it
  • Rampant Growth: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Swarmyard: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Twilight Mire: AI can't play it
  • Viridescent Bog: AI can't play it
  • Viscera Seer: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Cultivate: replacement
  • Gala Greeters: replacement
  • Idol of Oblivion: replacement
  • Marionette Apprentice: replacement
  • Oakhollow Village: replacement
  • Poison-Tip Archer: test
  • Shamanic Revelation: replacement
  • Vernal Fen: replacement

What the games show

From 253 analysed games in 27 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: wins through combat – 100% of the damage to opponents is combat damage

Strengths

  • Often wins by combo: in 26 of 66 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 38% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (97 of 253 games)
  • Little pressure: only avg 24 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 31) logged (253 games)
  • Drops out early: in losses on average already on its 9th own turn (all-deck avg: 10th) logged (187 losses)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 253 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Squirrel Token avg 7.8hit in 118 of 253 games
  2. Chatterfang, Squirrel General avg 7.6hit in 166 of 253 games
  3. The Odd Acorn Gang avg 0.8hit in 16 of 253 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Squirrel Token avg 16.7hit in 118 of 253 games
  2. Honored Dreyleader avg 15.4hit in 11 of 253 games
  3. The Odd Acorn Gang avg 12.2hit in 16 of 253 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Squirrel Token 93×253 games in deck
  2. Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18×253 games in deck
  3. The Odd Acorn Gang 5×253 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Assassin's Trophy 53×avg 0.2 per game · 253 games in deck
  2. Putrefy 43×avg 0.2 per game · 253 games in deck
  3. Culling Ritual 42×avg 0.3 per game · 130 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 19% of 3374 attackers blocked in total, 14% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Soldier Token 18×blocked in 5 games
  2. Goblin Token 17×blocked in 4 games
  3. Spirit Token 9×blocked in 5 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Culling Ritual 8%cast in 10 of 130 games
  2. Verdant Command 9%cast in 23 of 253 games
  3. Cloakwood Hermit 9%cast in 13 of 142 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 66 wins came

  • by turn 72%
  • turns 8–911%
  • turns 10–1147%
  • turns 12–1320%
  • turn 14+21%

Combos in play logged Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: all pieces cast in 25 games, 10 won · Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen: all pieces cast in 6 games, 4 won · Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 7 games, 5 won · Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 8 games, 3 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.68

0
13
1
18
2
18
3
10
4
5
5
1
6
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
16 / 16
Card draw
8 / 9
Removal
7 / 8
Board wipe
1 / 2
Protection
0 / 2
Strategy
33 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 65 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
34
Planeswalkers
1
Instants
10
Sorceries
6
Artifacts
7
Enchantments
7
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Warren Soultrader
€14.97
Academy Manufactor
€6.55
Skullclamp
€4.63
Toski, Bearer of Secrets
€4.56
Beastmaster Ascension
€3.57
Swarmyard
€3.43
Swarmyard Massacre
€3.08
Birds of Paradise
€3.00

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

  • no clear difference Cloakwood Hermit instead of Cache Grab · win rate 25% with, 28% without (142 / 111 games)
  • no clear difference Poison-Tip Archer instead of Vinereap Mentor · win rate 29% with, 25% without (56 / 197 games)
  • no clear difference Cache Grab instead of Poison-Tip Archer · win rate 25% with, 26% without (53 / 200 games) · from an earlier version, not in the deck now

5 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €99.30 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

Open Cardmarket Wants

Prices without shipping. Individual cards may have become cheaper or more expensive on Cardmarket.

Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 12 · average place 30.0 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 27 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?