chatterfang by HulkingPotato

Format: Commander

Commander: Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is an optimized token aristocrats and combo engine led by Chatterfang, Squirrel General. The strategy leverages Chatterfang's replacement ability to multiply every token created—whether Treasure, Food, Clue, or Creature—into additional 1/1 green Squirrels. This rapid token swarm fuels lethal sacrifice engines, card draw bursts, and asymmetric board control. The primary win condition revolves around infinite sacrifice loops: pairing Chatterfang with Pitiless Plunderer or Warren Soultrader and an aristocrat drain effect like Bastion of Remembrance or Zulaport Cutthroat eliminates all opponents on the spot. Alternatively, the deck can execute the two-card Ivy Lane Denizen plus Scurry Oak loop for infinite Squirrels or overrun the table with Craterhoof Behemoth and Finale of Devastation. With efficient ramp, potent card draw through Skullclamp and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, and free interaction like Deadly Rollick and Force of Vigor, the deck exerts oppressive board control while racing toward decisive Turn 5 finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archdruid's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 For the Common Good
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Gala Greeters
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hazel of the Rootbloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Ivy Lane Denizen
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pest Infestation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Poison-Tip Archer
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Runic Armasaur
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swarmyard
  • 1 Swarmyard Massacre
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Thornvault Forager
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat