Chatterfang by user4943990

Format: Commander

Commander: Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Golgari Aristocrats deck leverages Chatterfang, Squirrel General to turn token creation into an explosive resource engine and lethal combo finisher. Chatterfang's replacement effect doubles every token creation into additional 1/1 green Squirrels, turning incidental Food, Treasure, and Clue tokens into an expansive army. The primary game plan accelerates through 0–2 CMC ramp into a Turn 3 Chatterfang, followed by value engines like Skullclamp and Peregrin Took on Turn 4. On Turn 5, the deck tutors for and deploys Pitiless Plunderer or Warren Soultrader. Sacrificing Squirrels with Plunderer creates Treasures and replacement Squirrels indefinitely, generating infinite mana, wiping opposing boards, and draining all opponents immediately through aristocrat pieces like Blood Artist and Marionette Apprentice. While weak to dedicated creature removal and lacking counterspells, the deck boasts deep card velocity, flexible removal, and redundant win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cache Grab
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Chitterspitter
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 2 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deep Forest Hermit
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 9 Forest
  • 1 Gala Greeters
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Ruthless Knave
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scavenger's Talent
  • 1 Scurry of Squirrels
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shamanic Revelation
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyfisher Spider
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squirrel Nest
  • 1 Squirrel Sovereign
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Tranquil Thicket
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat