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Squirrelfolk

Black–Green (BG)

Generate Foods and graveyard cards, then spend the cheaper resource on forage while creatures and removal carry the game.

Designed56.8% game win · 81,686 games · +2.2 vs 54.6% average · Premier Draft, Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 17Lands ↗
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Mode

How it wins

Generate Foods and graveyard cards, then spend the cheaper resource on forage while creatures and removal carry the game.

Early
Develop mana and an early creature or answer.
Middle
Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.
Finish
Generate Foods and graveyard cards, then spend the cheaper resource on forage while creatures and removal carry the game.

What it needs

Commit when useful cards in both colors keep arriving and the support for this plan is present.

Four checks while you draft

  1. 1
    A playable curve

    Can this deck affect the board before its payoff arrives?

    Keep early creatures and interaction while assembling the specific support below.

    Bakersbane DuoCache Grab
  2. 2
    Support the plan

    Do I have enough cards that make this interaction happen?

    Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.

    Vinereap MentorTreetop Sentries
  3. 3
    Answers and a finish

    Can I break a board stall without drawing one particular rare?

    Generate Foods and graveyard cards, then spend the cheaper resource on forage while creatures and removal carry the game.

    SavorTreetop Sentries

Choose the missing job before another reward that needs it.

What to take next

You have the payoff but too few ways to activate it.

Look for Treetop Sentries.

Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.

Vinereap MentorTreetop Sentries

Your synergy is already working but you keep falling behind.

Take an early play or answer before another expensive reward.

Do not exile the only cards you need for recursion or threshold when a spare Food can pay for forage instead.

Bakersbane DuoCache Grab

The support is missing

Favor castable creatures and interaction if narrow support does not arrive.

Signals to watch
  • Repeated access to Bakersbane Duo, Cache Grab, Savor is better evidence than one gold card.

Repeated useful cards are clues, not proof that the colors are open.

Don’t
Check the support

Do not exile the only cards you need for recursion or threshold when a spare Food can pay for forage instead.

Best commons & uncommons

Hunter's TalentHunter's Talent64.5% GIH · 9,370 instancesVinereap MentorVinereap Mentor63.6% GIH · 25,918 instancesWick's PatrolWick's Patrol62.2% GIH · 13,103 instancesFellFell61.6% GIH · 8,993 instancesThought-Stalker WarlockThought-Stalker Warlock61.5% GIH · 10,378 instancesDownwind AmbusherDownwind Ambusher61.4% GIH · 11,514 instances

17Lands ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · at least 100 card-in-hand instances in this pair’s no-splash decks. Choose the job your deck needs first.

Bombs in these colors

Maha, Its Feathers NightMaha, Its Feathers Night 3BBMakes opposing creatures fragile and attacks through the air. Damage and small toughness reductions become much more effective while Maha stays in play.Season of LossSeason of Loss 3BBChoose the mode combination for the board. Sacrificing creatures first can increase the following draw mode, but the sacrifice affects you too.Fecund GreenshellFecund Greenshell 3GGBuild around creatures with toughness greater than power to keep finding lands or cards. The ten-land team bonus is a late-game possibility, not a requirement.Ygra, Eater of AllYgra, Eater of All 3BGOther creatures become Foods, so deaths grow Ygra and sacrifice effects become more flexible. Its ward can consume an opposing creature-Food, but does not make it untargetable.Sword of Fire and IceSword of Fire and Ice 3Fits any colors but needs a creature and equip mana. An evasive carrier makes its damage and draw trigger far more reliable.

17Lands Premier Draft ↗ · Jul 30–Sep 3, 2024 · 100-instance minimum

Cards for this pair

By jobA card can fill more than one job.
Build-arounds
Vinereap Mentor

Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.

Treetop Sentries

Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.

GoldUncommons and rares in both colors
All 156 castable cards →Including hybrid and colorless cards

Worked turns

1 examples

Examples apply the printed rules; judge the board, costs and timing.

Put the pieces together

  1. Mentor supplies Food on entering and dying. Sentries can spend one of those Foods to replace itself with a card.
  2. Do not exile the only cards you need for recursion or threshold when a spare Food can pay for forage instead.
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Adapt the plan to your format

One-pickSealed
Three Play Boosters per player; one card per pick. Premier statistics are recorded Arena games, not a prediction for your table.Start from the cards you opened. Favor a complete curve, interaction and castable threats over forcing the draft theme.
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