Upping the Average | Chatterfang, Squirrel General

[@mvwilson9]

Academy Manufacturer is a must for this deck if you are creating treasures. It will trigger and make a food, and clue token also. Triggering Chatterfang to create 3 squirrels also.

[@leodalkey651]

If you Saw in Half one of your Hermit's with Chatterfang in play you get 26 squirrels. "The audience always loves it, but the volunteers are divided." Best flavor text ever.

[@Asharpspoon]

If you Saw in Half Pitiless Plunderer you can trigger its ability twice, giving you unlimited treasures and squirrels.

[@leodalkey651]

@@Asharpspoon Yup. Why don't EDH influencer's talk about it more???

[@notrolling-er1wq]

@@leodalkey651 whos paying them to hide this?

[@AIrTIMgen]

26 is including the 8 you get from playing your hermit before getting 18 from sawing

[@leodalkey651]

yes you get some squirrels, then you get more squirrels, then you get more squirrels...

[@theronabell1126]

This series has been my favorite of 2021, thanks for all of the hard work that was put in this year!!

[@clintmartin1247]

Cards like Butcher of Malikir, Dictate of Erebos, and Grave Pact, make Chatterfang a Board Wipe nearly every other turn. Necrotic Hex is a great card for board wipes. Everyone sacrifices six creatures and then you get six zombies plus six more squirrel tokens. One of my personal fun favorites for a Chatterfang Deck is Grave Titian. He’s a 6/6 giant with Death Touch who ETB’s with two zombies and then farts out two zombies every time he attacks. Both Wand of Orcas and Black-blade Reforged have been fun and devastating artifacts for Chatterfang to fight with.

[@styfen]

Squirrels have sure come a long way from the days of Deranged Hermit and Un-sets.

[@joshbailey7775]

squirrel opposition was a very real thing.

[@papanurgle1169]

Super cool deck!! Here in italy the entire budget list can be bough for under 90€(around 100$) in slightly played/near mint condition. Very very cool upgradable and affordable list!

[@wildesage4172]

Great video. I really like your approach and thought process.

[@kero1640]

My favorite combo for chatterfang is ruthless knave and ashnods altar. Just sac a token using ruthless knaves ability and make two treasures and two squirrels, now sac one of the squirrels to ashnods altar and use one treasure to make black mana to use ruthless knaves ability again. Infinite mana, infinite death triggers and the best part is you can use the second ability from ruthless knave to draw your deck until you find a blood artist/zulaport cutthroat to win. Ive noticed people let ruthless knave stick around a lot more than pitess plunderer. Plus knave is a LOT cheaper than plunderer.

[@eirvandelden]

100% agreed, I was surprised Knave wasn’t mentioned in this video

[@christianzehntner]

One of these days I'd absolutely love to see a prosh sky raider of kher video. You've inspired me to make my first deck when I began playing with ur dragon and it's still an absolute blast to play. Your videos are an absolute inspiration for new players like myself

[@loorky2126]

If you have two squirrels with Pitiless and Chatterfang you can also create infinite treasure by sacrificing one squirrel to Chatterfang targeting the other generating 2 squirels and 2 treasures which pay for the ability and leave you with 1 more treasure(that is if your opponents have no creatures if they have you could also just clear their board by saccing 2 at a time and than perform the loop above)

[@robaphone251]

No! you gave away my secret tech! Gruesome fate is my favorite way to kill in my slimefoot deck (which plays a lot of similar cards to this list). :):) lots of fun

[@RomantheFox]

My current Chatterfang build is around $130 and my friends hate it. It's so much fun.

[@wtficantfindagoodnam]

Awesome video! Thank you for the great decklist and the nutty amount of puns!

[@psychozen7169]

The tokens you will need for this deck will be a big part of the budget.

[@Threeli]

Scurry oak is going in my cathars' crusade deck asap

[@PZcryptic1]

I see that none of the 3 lists have a Grim Hierling. If you're in the tokens focussed build, you're going wide enough that you can convert squirrels into 2 treasure per opponent. Easily and often this represents 6 more treasure, and thus 6 more Squirrels. It also ends up doubling as a slower Chatterfang removal spell for all those Treasure tokens if needed. Additionally, if you're running an expensive budget build with Ashnod's Altar, Doubling Season and Parallel Lives, you can win the game with Slimefoot the Stowaway, Altar and one of Chatterfang or either of the enchantments.

[@davidgilroy34]

I really like Skyclave Relic for chatterfang...Its a good mana rock and it can create tokens late game with chatterfang! Another great card is Forsworn Paladin! Just an overall great card and is even better in Chatterfang!

[@stevematthews4473]

I just built this deck yesterday! Great minds…

[@thony_reis]

Aaaah I was thinking about building a Chatterfang deck

[@gwiszitstaxtime7293]

love this man i'm going to build Anomolee's Decklist and test it out

[@jessepinkman1015]

Hope to see an Toxrill the Corrosive Average Version :)

[@naerth7922]

A new golgari tutor that’s budget I have enjoyed in my decks is Dig Up I like the option of just grabbing a land early if you need or tutor with the cleave cost

[@mrbaglione]

Really starting to like this series. Thanks for putting it out. I’m liking how you offer a budget neutral suggestion and a budget friendly option. Could you add an “optimized” option as well with no budget limit? Almost like a three tiered deck list.

[@shawntapley6733]

Commander 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General Deck 1 Birds of Paradise 1 Blood Artist 1 Craterhoof Behemoth 1 Deathrite Shaman 1 Deep Forest Hermit 1 Deranged Hermit 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus 1 Elves of Deep Shadow 1 Eternal Witness 1 Gala Greeters 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest 1 Llanowar Elves 1 Pitiless Plunderer 1 Ravenous Squirrel 1 Scurry Oak 1 Scute Swarm 1 Squirrel Mob 1 Squirrel Sovereign 1 Tendershoot Dryad 1 Tireless Provisioner 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets 1 Viscera Seer 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus 1 Zulaport Cutthroat 1 Abrupt Decay 1 Assassin's Trophy 1 Beast Within 1 Chord of Calling 1 Crop Rotation 1 Deadly Dispute 1 Heroic Intervention 1 Second Harvest 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Verdant Command 1 Worldly Tutor 1 Awaken the Woods 1 Chatter of the Squirrel 1 Chatterstorm 1 Cultivate 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Finale of Devastation 1 Green Sun's Twilight 1 Green Sun's Zenith 1 Natural Order 1 Three Visits 1 Arcane Signet 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Bootleggers' Stash 1 Chitterspitter 1 Chrome Mox 1 Jeweled Lotus 1 Mana Crypt 1 Phyrexian Altar 1 Skullclamp 1 Sol Ring 1 Bastion of Remembrance 1 Beastmaster Ascension 1 Bitterblossom 1 Black Market Connections 1 Doubling Season 1 Earthcraft 1 Parallel Lives 1 Squirrel Nest 1 Squirrel Sanctuary 1 Sylvan Library 1 The Meathook Massacre 1 Nissa, Ascended Animist 1 Ancient Tomb 1 Bayou 1 Boseiju, Who Endures 1 Command Tower 1 Darkbore Pathway 1 Deathcap Glade 1 Gaea's Cradle 1 Llanowar Wastes 1 Marsh Flats 1 Misty Rainforest 1 Overgrown Tomb 1 Phyrexian Tower 1 Prismatic Vista 1 Swarmyard 1 Twilight Mire 1 Undergrowth Stadium 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth 1 Verdant Catacombs 1 Windswept Heath 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Woodland Cemetery 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth 2 Swamp 7 Forest $ 2,939.10 tabletop

[@HexQuesTT]

a couple non budget picks I've got in my list are Old Gnawbone and Arachnogenesis, Old Gnawbone is self explanatory, you get an overrun effect going and a clean swing and you're making so many tokens, even if you can't get thru with tokens just getting thru with Old Gnawbone will net you 7 treasures and 7 squirrels, Arachnogenesis is nutty just in general and especially when you combine it with this general, even more so if you're against another tokens deck

[@Saprothallid]

Dowsing dagger is a extremely efficient ramp spell equipment token maker, my favorite card in my chatterfang!

[@Jrizzle7426]

It makes tokens for the opponent, not for you. You get nothing from it.

[@monicacunningham3816]

Just started learning to play MTG, and then I discover there's a SQUIRREL ARMY... Ohhhhhh maaaiiiii GHAAAAAD 😍🐿️🥰🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️🐿️

[@sebastiangomezbotero7765]

Hey I've run a spik-e version of chatterfang, indeed it's amazing how it combos so fast and easy, also the big board states plus blood artist type triggers almost always ends up in a hard lock onto the other players or win you the game. The cards that are more friendly budget and can make tokens on each players upkeep are incredible good by themselves and synergistic.

[@scaredycat3146]

These videos always make me reaIize how expensive some of my cards have become. Absurd what my 5 bucks Earthcraft is worth now.

[@JoshuaVvee]

Surprised this combo isn't talked much about but Butcher of Malakir. He's a 7 drop, but each and every squirrel Chatterfang sacs forces all opponents to sac a creature. You can control and clear boards INCREDIBLY fast with those two going off. And it gets around pretty much all kinds of protection. For a Chatterfang deck designed around death triggers, I also like Demonmail Hauberk. Equip cost is to sac a creature. If you don't have the mana for death triggers, you can just swap that around between squirrels as much as you want to kill them all. Maybe I'm missing something about these cards that don't make them as powerful as I think? Hope it helps!

[@WunDumDorf]

With it appearing in less than 1% (39 of 4073) Chatterfang decks, I’d be curious to know if you did any testing with Tombstone Stairwell in a Chatterfang deck. Granted there’s the cumulative upkeep, but with it triggering on each players turn, one or two trips around the table should net you a fair number of squirrels, especially if it’s later in the game and you need to break the turtle standoff. Collect squirrels for a couple rounds, then stop paying the upkeep, let the Tombstone get buried and swing wide with the Furry Horde.

[@thetrespasser53]

I like Arasta in my Chatterfang deck since there isn't many other ways to fend off flying attacks that also synergize with Chatterfang. It is not super reliable though since it does rely on other players to do things but I think 4 mana for some flyer insurance can be worth it.

[@TruthlessHero]

Necrosynthesis is amazing in this deck as well. Can combo with scurry oak, and makes sacrificing squirrels to pump chatterfang ridiculous

[@dimitrisgkialpis9410]

Well done! Great content in every video! Please do a Magda Brazen Outlaw video in the future she is a pretty interesting commander to build around!

[@HJonesT]

I play Chatterfang, you should check out Ruthless Knave and Catacomb Sifter.

[@belladonnaatropa1697]

Nim death mantle is a fun combo with the multi token makers and ashnod's altar. Infinite Squirrels, mana, and etb/ltb triggers.

[@NipZippler]

A little late but with new capenna out now, bootlegger’s stash is an absolute must have, especially if you also use academy manufacturer

[@horrorfan117]

I’m really excited to try it out in mine. Just a bit worried about it’s mana cost though. Using your lands to get squirrels is nice, but it seems like a card that’ll be used when you’re already ahead.

[@TiltCube]

@@horrorfan117 the nice thing about bootlegger's stash is that it sticks around after many board wipes, so it's a great tool for recovering quickly

[@anomolee2335]

This video reminded me that I still should invest in a coat of arms

[@thomasbuege8074]

I would love to see you do Reaper King please 🙏

[@martincloud1323]

I love your videos very much! Could you maybe do a Dakkon Blackblade Upping the Average video?

[@TWhi2834]

My favorite commander. My favorite deck. They need to make Earl of Squirrel legal in Eternal Formats.

[@julienbled5055]

Thank you for this nice video ! I'm a little late here, and the link for Anomolee's Decklist isn't working anymore.

[@MaxSpider2000]

Guys what about Strixhaven Stadium in this deck? if 10 squirrels hit an opponent he loses the game. pretty f-ing great!

[@bc6292]

Does a Chatterfang deck need infinite combos to really shine? I really love the theme but I'm worried about how strong this would be against my playgroup which tends to include precons.

[@TheGameWard78]

This up the average is INSANE like I could make like 1000 squirrels now with these upgrades

[@PlaneswalkerProject]

I think it is physically impossible to discuss Chatterfang without ever making a single "nut" pun.

[@jeanloncle3550]

Army of the damned IS cool too, 13 2/2 zombies wich trigger chatterfang, u will end UP with 13 zombies and 13 squirrels x) use meathook on that and boom

[@GabrieleBianchelli]

i don't get why the 2cmc mana ramps, for they doesn't fit in curve as well as more 1cmc mana dorks... did i miss something?

[@CrabBaskets]

If only Squirrel Dealer wasn't a silver border card....

[@_charwyn]

Rule 0 that mofo in! :D

[@el_pablodocus]

I rule 0 Earl of Squirrel, Acornelia, Squirrel farm and Squirrel dealer in all my games and it's never been a problem for anyone ! :)

[@hop9015]

The third deck list link doesn't work when you click on it

[@_charwyn]

Saw this headline today: “Bloodthirsty' squirrel attacks 18 people in small Welsh village in two- day Christmas rampage”. Coincidence?

[@el_pablodocus]

Went to read the news and omg, it's a real story ! xD

[@DailYxDosE]

anyone have the link to Anomolee's deck?

[@Johnny77711]

I personally really hate combos, especially infinite combos. I feel like it goes against the intended design of the game. It's so ridiculously easy to just go 'okay I play these two cards that cost 5 or 6 combined mana, and I win'. Usually with little recourse for the opponent. All that time spent shuffling physical cards, setting everything up, and getting a game going to just flat out end it on the spot. Having said that if I would remove all the infinite combo and focus more on squirrels and sacrifices, this would be a really fun deck to play, who doesn't like tokens, or squirrels?

[@Jakkgusa]

I built chatterfang the moment he came out just putting in all the squirrel cards and the aristocrat staples just make the deck go infinite it's incidental

[@river638]

Anomolee's Decklist no longer seems to be working? Is there another link for it out there somewhere?

[@MelodiousGroan]

The Anomolee decklist link seems to be broken now. 404 not found style

[@DailYxDosE]

you ever find it?

[@SaltySparrow]

I was staring at underworld hermit and was just thinking "this card is bad". I don't care if it is on theme. It's bad.

[@InfamousDraco]

Hey its a 30 dollar card but Primal Vigor is pretty nice and cheaper that Doubling season and Parallel loves

[@SomewhereInMiddleEarth]

Anomolee's link is broken!

[@jonram6009]

Half the decks I see with the general are never really squirrel tribal, definitely lands more into combo territory

[@Drakeflame102]

Found it within 5 minutes, wow

[@somersetbassett4580]

Like # 100 !!!!

[@codyjarvis4557]

Two words Old Gnawbone.

[@beepboopkendo4206]

Just make a Rionya fire dancer vid already!

[@duk2112]

Stop bein so cute, man. I can't handle it

[@mercystreetcjc]

A true story in three parts. Me, watching this first thing in the morning, unsure of what to have for breakfast. Joey : “that’s a lot of waffle…” Me : “you know what sounds good right now? Waffles!” Thanks!

[@HerbaceousM8]

i thought the cards in a deck had to be the the same color identity of the deck commander in EDH? Chatter fang is green, how do you run the black cards? am i missing something. his swamp ability makes him also a black card?

[@eirvandelden]

Chatterfang is a golgari commander, because his activated ability costs black to activate. Count all the coloured mana symbols on the card, not just mana cost

[@Zerschnitzler77]

its time for kaza

[@jamesgratz4771]

Squirrels are way more fun in non singleton formats

[@IslarfPokemon]

But Chatterfang creates squirrel tokens instead if the Treasure Tokens. So you never get any treasure tokens.

[@EDHRECast]

"If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus that many 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens are created instead."

[@IslarfPokemon]

@@EDHRECast ah to me it read like it was making x+x squirrel tokens instead

[@ZMLsavage]

Chatterfang, Pitiless Plunderer, and Skull Clamp can draw out as many cards as you want. Thought this combo would be mentioned. You go infanint on draw so stop where you need to.

[@clockpin785]

You cant have Jadar on the field with Chatterfang. Both of them are legendary creatures

[@nikbarre8992]

You can have multiple legendaries on the field just can’t have two with the same name

[@iapollo6549]

No respect for my boy fyndhorn elf

[@wananana15]

okay but... who isn't running this deck as squirrel tribal? That's peak magic right there. Anything else is worthless. Who cares about combos?

[@alexanderhafstrom8995]

Anomolee's link is broken btw