He really shines with any sort of reliable token generation…amusingly, Old Gnawbone is a card he pairs well with, but anything that makes you tokens can work quite well with him (think cards like Tireless Tracker, Bitterblossom, Avenger of Zendikar, and even options like Smothering Tithe in non-Commander formats), and it’s not too hard to raise a massive throng of squirrels you can throw at your opponents. This card was not on my Top 10 cards of 2021, but I did have it on the short list for inclusion.ĭespite being the Squirrel commander, the secret to Chatterfang, Squirrel General is that he’s pretty darn good outside of decks devoted to the green rodent of choice, and he’s honestly more of a token commander than a pure Squirrel overlord.
Don’t forget that if he’s your commander, he gives you access to black spells – I’m sure you can think of almost as many black cards that have a use for a vast number of tokens as green cards. And in more casual settings, he can be absolutely dominating. If your opponent is off their guard, though, he’ll absolutely destroy them. In practice, beating down with tokens is generally not the best-positioned strategy in Modern, and if your deck is depending on Chatterfang, he’s a good target for those same spells.
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Forestwalk is active more often than you’d expect in a format full of fetchlands and shocklands, and doubling tokens could help against the vast array of one-mana removal spells. Not that I’m displeased with the results – I just didn’t think they’d actually do it, since they also got a major push in Unstable and I apparently misinterpreted that as meaning that they had become more of an Un-set thing.Ĭhatterfang is, on paper, positioned surprisingly well for a format like Modern (recall that the Horizons sets are direct-to-Modern, and are never legal in Standard first). If you had asked me in January about the things I least expected to see in Magic this year, one of my top answers would have been squirrels getting a major push in black-bordered cards.
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