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Price
€300.00of €300.00
Overall win rate
16%11 wins in 69 scored games
Games
70 (1)played in 7 tournaments, 1 not scored (time limit)
Rank
45in the rankings up to €300 · Elo 1428 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 34 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
8complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

At most €300 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 (32)

Instants (13)

Sorceries (5)

Artifacts (7)

Enchantments (8)

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
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Jaheira, Friend of the Forest + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite lifegain triggers
    5 versions, each with one of: Doubling Season · Parallel Lives
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Ruthless Knave + … → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    3 versions, each with one of: Ashnod's Altar · Parallel Lives · Doubling Season
  • Ivy Lane Denizen + … → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite creature tokens
    2 versions, each with one of: Scurry Oak · Ashnod's Altar
  • 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
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 22 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

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  • 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
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Doubling Season → Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Nadier's Nightblade → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Jaheira, Friend of the Forest → 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
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor + Parallel Lives → Infinite artifact tokens, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers
  • Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Prosperous Innkeeper → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Jaheira, Friend of the Forest + Parallel Lives → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers
  • Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Jaheira, Friend of the Forest + Doubling Season → Infinite creature ETB, Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl + Pitiless Plunderer + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Ruthless Knave + Ashnod's Altar → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Ruthless Knave + Parallel Lives → Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
  • Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Ruthless Knave + Doubling Season → 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

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
  • Diabolic Intent: AI can't play it
  • Ruthless Knave: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Twilight Mire: AI can't play it
  • Viridescent Bog: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Abrupt Decay: replacement
  • Deathcap Glade: replacement
  • Woe Strider: replacement
  • Ygra, Eater of All: replacement

What the games show

From 69 analysed games in 7 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 7 of 11 wins all pieces of a combo were in play indication
  • Recovers from board wipes: 22% wins when opponents cast a board wipe, 0% without one (all-deck avg: 23% vs 28%) indication (49 / 20 games)

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 43% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (30 of 69 games)
  • Slow to win: wins on average only on its 13th own turn (all-deck avg: 12th) logged (11 wins)
  • Little pressure: only avg 22 damage to opponents per game (all-deck avg: 29) logged (69 games)
  • Rarely eliminates opponents: 0.41 per game on average (all-deck avg: 0.62) logged (69 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 69 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Chatterfang, Squirrel General avg 8.7hit in 56 of 69 games
  2. Squirrel Token avg 3.1hit in 19 of 69 games
  3. Honored Dreyleader avg 1.8hit in 8 of 69 games

Damage when used when it hits

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

  1. Honored Dreyleader avg 15.4hit in 8 of 69 games
  2. Squirrel Token avg 11.4hit in 19 of 69 games
  3. Chatterfang, Squirrel General avg 10.7hit in 56 of 69 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

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

  1. Squirrel Token 12×69 games in deck
  2. Chatterfang, Squirrel General 11×69 games in deck
  3. Hazel of the Rootbloom 2×69 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

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

  1. Tear Asunder 14×avg 0.2 per game · 69 games in deck
  2. Culling Ritual 13×avg 0.2 per game · 69 games in deck
  3. Putrefy 11×avg 0.2 per game · 69 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 18% of 831 attackers blocked in total, 12% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Caesar, Legion's Emperor 3×blocked in 3 games
  2. Orc Army Token 3×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 3%cast in 2 of 69 games
  2. The Meathook Massacre 4%cast in 3 of 69 games
  3. Verdant Command 6%cast in 4 of 69 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 11 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–99%
  • turns 10–1127%
  • turns 12–1318%
  • turn 14+45%

Combos in play logged Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer: all pieces cast in 13 games, 2 won · Scurry Oak + Ivy Lane Denizen: all pieces cast in 1 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Zulaport Cutthroat + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won · Warren Soultrader + Blood Artist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General: all pieces cast in 2 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 2.75

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

Roles in the deck

Ramp
18 / 16
Card draw
9 / 9
Removal
8 / 8
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
26 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
32
Instants
13
Sorceries
5
Artifacts
7
Enchantments
8
Lands
34

Most expensive cards

The Meathook Massacre
€24.70
Verdant Catacombs
€24.21
Parallel Lives
€20.63
Doubling Season
€19.91
Worldly Tutor
€18.20
Warren Soultrader
€14.97
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
€12.75
Diabolic Intent
€11.79

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 swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

3 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

Copy the list, create a new list under “Wants” on Cardmarket and paste it.

Total €300.00 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 28 · average place 42.9 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 7 tournaments

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