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Squirrel-istocrats
Deck Size: 100
Commander / EDH
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Est deck cost: $504.58
Salt sum: 40.94
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Commander

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Chatterfang, Squirrel General

Forestwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Forest.) 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. {B}, Sacrifice X Squirrels: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.

Creature
Chatterfang, Squirrel General (blc) 82

Commander

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Aristocrat

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Bastion of Remembrance

When Bastion of Remembrance enters, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
Bastion of Remembrance (blc) 179
Blood Artist

Whenever Blood Artist or another creature dies, target player loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Blood Artist (voc) 119
Marionette Apprentice

Fabricate 1 (When this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on it or create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.) Whenever another creature or artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Marionette Apprentice (mh3) 100
Mirkwood Bats

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Mirkwood Bats (ltr) 421
Nadier's Nightblade

Whenever a token you control leaves the battlefield, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Nadier's Nightblade (cmm) 641
Poison-Tip Archer

Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.) Deathtouch (Any amount of damage this deals to a creature is enough to destroy it.) Whenever another creature dies, each opponent loses 1 life.

Creature
Poison-Tip Archer (blc) 256
Vindictive Vampire

Whenever another creature you control dies, Vindictive Vampire deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Vindictive Vampire (clu) 126
Zulaport Cutthroat

Whenever Zulaport Cutthroat or another creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Creature
Zulaport Cutthroat (tsr) 337

Aristocrat

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Draw

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Black Market Connections

At the beginning of your first main phase, choose one or more — • Sell Contraband — Create a Treasure token. You lose 1 life. • Buy Information — Draw a card. You lose 2 life. • Hire a Mercenary — Create a 3/2 colorless Shapeshifter creature token with changeling. You lose 3 life. (It has every creature type.)

Enchantment
Black Market Connections (clb) 669
Dark Prophecy

Whenever a creature you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Dark Prophecy (m14) 93
Deadly Dispute

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Deadly Dispute (blc) 181
Fanatical Offering

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Draw two cards and create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Fanatical Offering (lci) 105
Moldervine Reclamation

Whenever a creature you control dies, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Enchantment
Moldervine Reclamation (blc) 255
Pawpatch Formation

Choose one — • Destroy target creature with flying. • Destroy target enchantment. • Draw a card. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Instant
Pawpatch Formation (blb) 186
Plumb the Forbidden

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may sacrifice one or more creatures. When you do, copy this spell for each creature sacrificed this way. You draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Instant
Plumb the Forbidden (blc) 188
Pointed Discussion

You draw two cards, lose 2 life, then create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Sorcery
Pointed Discussion (vow) 126
Toski, Bearer of Secrets

This spell can't be countered. Indestructible Toski, Bearer of Secrets attacks each combat if able. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature
Toski, Bearer of Secrets (khm) 319

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Land

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Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmr) 350
Exotic Orchard

{T}: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Land
Exotic Orchard (blc) 131
Forest

({T}: Add {G}.)

Land
Forest (blb) 378
Ghost Quarter

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice Ghost Quarter: Destroy target land. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Ghost Quarter (plst) CM2-253
Golgari Rot Farm

Golgari Rot Farm enters tapped. When Golgari Rot Farm enters, return a land you control to its owner's hand. {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Golgari Rot Farm (blc) 308
Haunted Mire

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) Haunted Mire enters tapped.

Land
Haunted Mire (blc) 311
High Market

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain 1 life.

Land
High Market (afc) 246
Llanowar Wastes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Llanowar Wastes deals 1 damage to you.

Land
Llanowar Wastes (blc) 315
Necroblossom Snarl

As Necroblossom Snarl enters, you may reveal a Swamp or Forest card from your hand. If you don't, Necroblossom Snarl enters tapped. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Necroblossom Snarl (blc) 319
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (mh3) 303
Spymaster's Vault

Spymaster's Vault enters tapped unless you control a Swamp. {T}: Add {B}. {B}, {T}: Target creature you control connives X, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. (Draw X cards, then discard X cards. Put a +1/+1 counter on that creature for each nonland card discarded this way.)

Land
Spymaster's Vault (mh3) 358
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (blb) 373
Swarmyard

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Regenerate target Insect, Rat, Spider, or Squirrel. (The next time it would be destroyed this turn, instead tap it, remove it from combat, and heal all damage on it.)

Land
Swarmyard (blc) 133
Tainted Wood

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add {B} or {G}. Activate only if you control a Swamp.

Land
Tainted Wood (blc) 337
Temple of Malady

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.) {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Temple of Malady (blc) 341
The Shire

The Shire enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {G}. {1}{G}, {T}, Tap an untapped creature you control: Create a Food token.

Land
The Shire (ltr) 260
Viridescent Bog

{1}, {T}: Add {B}{G}.

Land
Viridescent Bog (dsc) 324
Woodland Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery enters tapped unless you control a Swamp or a Forest. {T}: Add {B} or {G}.

Land
Woodland Cemetery (ltc) 346
Woodland Chasm

({T}: Add {B} or {G}.) Woodland Chasm enters tapped.

Land
Woodland Chasm (khm) 274
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Each land is a Forest in addition to its other land types.

Land
Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth (mh2) 261

Land

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Protection

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Arachnogenesis

Create X 1/2 green Spider creature tokens with reach, where X is the number of creatures attacking you. Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by non-Spider creatures.

Instant
Arachnogenesis (cmm) 272
Fake Your Own Death

Until end of turn, target creature gets +2/+0 and gains "When this creature dies, return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control and you create a Treasure token." (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Instant
Fake Your Own Death (otj) 87
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (ltc) 281
Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Instant
Orcish Medicine (ltr) 104
Revitalizing Repast

Instant
Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove (mh3) 256
Swiftfoot Boots

Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.) Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Artifact
Swiftfoot Boots (c17) 226
Tamiyo's Safekeeping

Target permanent you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. You gain 2 life. (A permanent with hexproof and indestructible can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)

Instant
Tamiyo's Safekeeping (neo) 211

Protection

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Ramp

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Delighted Halfling

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can't be countered.

Creature
Delighted Halfling (pltr) 402s
Dig Up

Cleave {1}{B}{B}{G} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Search your library for a [basic land] card, [reveal it,] put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Dig Up (vow) 197
Elves of Deep Shadow

{T}: Add {B}. Elves of Deep Shadow deals 1 damage to you.

Creature
Elves of Deep Shadow (plst) GK1-56
Goldvein Hydra

Vigilance, trample, haste Goldvein Hydra enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When Goldvein Hydra dies, create a number of tapped Treasure tokens equal to its power.

Creature
Goldvein Hydra (otj) 167
Ruthless Knave

{2}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Create two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.") Sacrifice three Treasures: Draw a card.

Creature
Ruthless Knave (plst) XLN-119
Sakura-Tribe Elder

Sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Creature
Sakura-Tribe Elder (ncc) 307
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (mkc) 237

Ramp

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Recursion

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Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter. At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.

Creature
Meren of Clan Nel Toth (cmm) 346
Victimize

Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.

Sorcery
Victimize (c14) 169

Recursion

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Removal

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Assassin's Trophy

Destroy target permanent an opponent controls. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Instant
Assassin's Trophy (mkm) 412
Attrition

{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target nonblack creature.

Enchantment
Attrition (uds) 52
Beast Within

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Beast creature token.

Instant
Beast Within (ltc) 234
Braids, Arisen Nightmare

At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.

Creature
Braids, Arisen Nightmare (dmu) 288
Break Down

Destroy target artifact or enchantment. Create a Junk token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Break Down (pip) 74
Bridgeworks Battle

Sorcery
Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks (mh3) 249
Fell the Profane

Instant
Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244Fell the Profane // Fell Mire (mh3) 244
Orcish Bowmasters

Flash When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Creature
Orcish Bowmasters (ltr) 433
Pest Infestation

Destroy up to X target artifacts and/or enchantments. Create twice X 1/1 black and green Pest creature tokens with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life."

Sorcery
Pest Infestation (otp) 30
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
Toxic Deluge

As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay X life. All creatures get -X/-X until end of turn.

Sorcery
Toxic Deluge (mh3) 277

Removal

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Sac Outlet

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Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (cmm) 368
Carrion Feeder

Carrion Feeder can't block. Sacrifice a creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Carrion Feeder.

Creature
Carrion Feeder (plst) MH1-81
Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Moonsilver Key: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Moonsilver Key (mid) 255
Phyrexian Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Phyrexian Altar (2x2) 311
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (blc) 283
Viscera Seer

Sacrifice a creature: Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Creature
Viscera Seer (lcc) 213
Warren Soultrader

Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Warren Soultrader (mh3) 110
Woe Strider

When Woe Strider enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token. Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1. Escape—{3}{B}{B}, Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.) Woe Strider escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.

Creature
Woe Strider (blc) 189

Sac Outlet

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Tokens

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Avenger of Zendikar

When Avenger of Zendikar enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.

Creature
Avenger of Zendikar (ddp) 1
Beledros Witherbloom

Flying At the beginning of each upkeep, create a 1/1 black and green Pest creature token with "When this creature dies, you gain 1 life." Pay 10 life: Untap all lands you control. Activate only once each turn.

Creature
Beledros Witherbloom (stx) 282
Case of the Stashed Skeleton

When this Case enters, create a 2/1 black Skeleton creature token and suspect it. (It has menace and can't block.) To solve — You control no suspected Skeletons. (If unsolved, solve at the beginning of your end step.) Solved — {1}{B}, Sacrifice this Case: Search your library for a card, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Enchantment
Case of the Stashed Skeleton (mkm) 80
Cloakwood Hermit

Commander creatures you own have "At the beginning of your end step, if a creature card was put into your graveyard from anywhere this turn, create two tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens."

Enchantment
Cloakwood Hermit (clb) 221
Deep Forest Hermit

Vanishing 3 (This creature enters with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter from it. When the last is removed, sacrifice it.) When Deep Forest Hermit enters, create four 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. Squirrels you control get +1/+1.

Creature
Deep Forest Hermit (blc) 213
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia

At the beginning of your end step, if you control no creatures with decayed, create a 2/2 black Zombie creature token with decayed. (It can't block. When it attacks, sacrifice it at end of combat.)

Creature
Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia (mid) 108
Nested Shambler

When Nested Shambler dies, create X tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens, where X is Nested Shambler's power.

Creature
Nested Shambler (mh2) 399
Old Rutstein

When Old Rutstein enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, mill a card. If a land card is milled this way, create a Treasure token. If a creature card is milled this way, create a 1/1 green Insect creature token. If a noncreature, nonland card is milled this way, create a Blood token.

Creature
Old Rutstein (vow) 244
Ophiomancer

At the beginning of each upkeep, if you control no Snakes, create a 1/1 black Snake creature token with deathtouch.

Creature
Ophiomancer (mh3) 276
Parallel Lives

If an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead.

Enchantment
Parallel Lives (wot) 58
Pitiless Plunderer

Whenever another creature you control dies, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Pitiless Plunderer (plst) RIX-81
Second Harvest

For each token you control, create a token that's a copy of that permanent.

Instant
Second Harvest (c19) 178
Tireless Provisioner

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Tireless Provisioner (ltc) 262

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