GolgariLegendary Creature — Squirrel WarriorThe Odd Acorn Gang
Mana value5Rank#4,443
The Commander
Menace, trample, reach
Squirrels you control have "
: Target Squirrel gets +2/+2 and gains trample until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery."
Whenever one or more Squirrels you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
Guide
Gameplan
Flood the board with Squirrel tokens, then turn them sideways for value: every connecting Squirrel draws a card and the team can pump itself with the tap ability to push through huge trampling damage. You ramp and build wide in the early turns, deploy The Odd Acorn Gang around turn five, and overwhelm tables with go-wide combat backed by a steady stream of cards.
Strengths
- Built-in card advantage engine that refills your hand off combat damage from multiple Squirrels
- Squirrel typal has surprisingly deep support, making tokens cheap and plentiful
- Tap-to-pump ability lets even small Squirrels punch through blockers with trample
- Black-green gives access to elite ramp, recursion, and removal to protect the board
Weaknesses
- Heavily reliant on the board state—board wipes set you back hard
- Commander itself is mana value 5 and the deck wants it out to maximize draw triggers
- Vulnerable to fliers and ground stalls without evasion beyond menace/trample
- Can be slow to close if early Squirrel production is disrupted
Key Cards
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General — Doubles your Squirrel token production and gives a sac-for-removal outlet, supercharging both the swarm and the draw engine.
- Pitiless Plunderer — Turns dying Squirrels into Treasure, fueling explosive ramp and recursion loops with the swarm.
- Parallel Lives — Doubles every Squirrel token you make, accelerating your board to lethal width quickly.
- Earthcraft — Untaps Squirrels to refire the +2/+2 tap ability and ramp out more threats in the same turn.
- Skullclamp — Even without the commander, sacrificing 1/1 Squirrels for two cards each is absurd card flow.
- Squirrel Sanctuary — Generates a steady stream of Squirrel tokens whenever one dies, keeping the board resilient.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and token doublers (Parallel Lives, Anointed Procession, Doubling Season) to scale the board faster, and lean into sacrifice payoffs plus Skullclamp for relentless card flow. Include a couple of finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth or Pathbreaker Ibex to convert width into one-shot kills, and tighten the manabase with fetches and untapped duals. For a higher ceiling, build toward Earthcraft and Squirrel Nest engines for explosive mana and token loops.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Wide trampling combat damage pumped by the commander's tap ability
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist / Zulaport Cutthroat as Squirrels are sacrificed
- ▸Overrun effects like Craterhoof Behemoth or Pathbreaker Ibex turning the swarm lethal
- ▸Grinding the table out of resources via overwhelming card advantage then alpha striking
Archetypes
- Tokens / Go-Wide — The commander rewards fielding many Squirrels for both draw triggers and the team-pump ability.
- Aristocrats — Black-green sacrifice payoffs like Pitiless Plunderer and Blood Artist turn expendable Squirrels into value and reach.
- Typal Tribal — Dedicated Squirrel synergy cards and anthems amplify a focused creature-type strategy.
- Combo — Squirrel + Earthcraft + token doublers enable mana and token loops that snowball out of control.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (BG), by popularity.
