Squirrel Army by BluFireFly

Format: Commander

Commander: Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari token swarm and aristocrats strategy commanded by Chatterfang, Squirrel General. The deck focuses on generating an overwhelming army of Squirrels by pairing Chatterfang's passive token-doubling ability with high-output token creators such as Deep Forest Hermit, Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Tendershoot Dryad. Token doublers like Parallel Lives and Doubling Season accelerate this multiplication exponentially. Chatterfang doubles as a potent onboard removal engine, sacrificing Squirrels to eliminate opposing creatures at instant speed. Card advantage is sustained through engines like Skullclamp and Sylvan Library. The deck finishes games on turn 6 by converting wide token boards into lethal combat damage using mass pump spells including Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede, and Coat of Arms, or by draining opponents through Mirkwood Bats and Gruesome Fate. While weak to board sweepers and lacking stack countermagic, its high redundancy ensures consistent, resilient token pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acorn Harvest
  • 1 Arasta of the Endless Web
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Chatter of the Squirrel
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Chatterstorm
  • 1 Chitterspitter
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deep Forest Hermit
  • 1 Diligent Zookeeper
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fog
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 18 Forest
  • 1 Galadhrim Ambush
  • 1 Garruk Wildspeaker
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Gruesome Fate
  • 1 Hazel of the Rootbloom
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Honored Dreyleader
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mycoloth
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overrun
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Primal Vigor
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sandwurm Convergence
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Skyshroud Claim
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Squirrel Nest
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tendershoot Dryad
  • 1 The Odd Acorn Gang
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Valley Rotcaller
  • 1 Verdant Command
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat