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Price
€196.42of €200.00
Overall win rate
19%45 wins in 241 scored games
Games
262 (21)played in 26 tournaments, 21 not scored (time limit)
Rank
40in the rankings up to €200 · Elo 1447 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
1of at most 3 allowed
Combos
8complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €200 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 (33)

Instants (15)

Sorceries (5)

Artifacts (7)

Enchantments (5)

Lands (34)

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

Combos in the deck (8)

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
    4 versions, each with one of: Scurry Oak · Ashnod's Altar · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Ygra, Eater of All + … → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    4 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Peregrin Took · Viscera Seer · Woe Strider
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · 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 23 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 23 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
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Bastion of Remembrance → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature 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
  • Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Viscera Seer → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature 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 + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Woe Strider → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature 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 + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite colorless mana
  • 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
  • Toxic Deluge: AI can't play it
  • Twilight Mire: AI can't play it
  • Verdant Catacombs: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Viridescent Bog: AI can't play it
  • Viscera Seer: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Chatter of the Squirrel: replacement
  • Deathcap Glade: replacement
  • Deathrite Shaman: replacement
  • Terramorphic Expanse: replacement
  • The Meathook Massacre: replacement

What the games show

From 241 analysed games in 26 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 20 of 45 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication
  • Unfazed by graveyard hate: 41% wins when opponents played graveyard hate (e.g. Bojuka Bog, Rest in Peace), 16% without it (all-deck avg: 24% vs 25%) indication (27 / 214 games)

Weaknesses

  • Attacks often get blocked: 23% of attackers blocked (all-deck avg: 17%) logged (2935 attackers in 241 games)
  • Little pressure: only avg 22 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 30) logged (241 games)
  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 13th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (45 wins)
  • Often eliminated first: in 32% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (78 of 241 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 241 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Chatterfang, Squirrel General avg 8.5hit in 185 of 241 games
  2. Squirrel Token avg 5.2hit in 75 of 241 games
  3. Honored Dreyleader avg 0.9hit in 8 of 241 games

Damage when used when it hits

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

  1. Squirrel Token avg 16.8hit in 75 of 241 games
  2. Ygra, Eater of All avg 16.2hit in 12 of 241 games
  3. Scurry of Squirrels avg 15.8hit in 12 of 241 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

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

  1. Squirrel Token 66×241 games in deck
  2. Chatterfang, Squirrel General 18×241 games in deck
  3. Hazel's Brewmaster 6×241 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

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

  1. Culling Ritual 70×avg 0.3 per game · 241 games in deck
  2. Saw in Half 42×avg 0.2 per game · 241 games in deck
  3. Putrefy 41×avg 0.2 per game · 241 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 23% of 2935 attackers blocked in total, 10% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Goblin Token 20×blocked in 5 games
  2. Soldier Token 14×blocked in 5 games
  3. Vampire Token 11×blocked in 3 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. Veil of Summer 5%cast in 11 of 241 games
  2. Dark Ritual 8%cast in 19 of 241 games
  3. Culling Ritual 10%cast in 23 of 241 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 45 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–913%
  • turns 10–1124%
  • turns 12–1322%
  • turn 14+40%

Combos in play logged Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: all pieces cast in 29 games, 6 won · Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen: all pieces cast in 2 games, 1 won · Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 10 games, 4 won · Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 8 games, 3 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.66

0
12
1
18
2
20
3
10
4
5
5
6
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
16 / 16
Card draw
9 / 9
Removal
8 / 8
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
28 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
33
Instants
15
Sorceries
5
Artifacts
7
Enchantments
5
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

Verdant Catacombs
€24.21
Warren Soultrader
€14.97
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
€12.75
Heroic Intervention
€10.37
Ashnod's Altar
€9.71
Overgrown Tomb
€8.64
Ygra, Eater of All
€8.11
Academy Manufactor
€6.55

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.

  • better Gala Greeters instead of Cultivate · win rate 23% with, 15% without (107 / 134 games)
  • no clear difference Elvish Spirit Guide instead of Talisman of Resilience · win rate 23% with, 17% without (65 / 176 games)
  • no clear difference Cultivate instead of Gala Greeters · win rate 19% with, 18% without (67 / 174 games)

3 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €196.42 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

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

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Best place 5 · average place 40.3 · 0× top 3 · 1× top 10 out of 26 tournaments

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