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Squirrel Wrangler

Creature — Human Druid

{1}{G}, Sacrifice a land: Create two 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens.
{1}{G}, Sacrifice a land: Squirrel creatures get +1/+1 until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
The List
Price
$1.18
EDHREC rank
#16962
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Squirrel Wrangler card art
Squirrel Wrangler turns excess lands into a repeatable token engine — pay two mana and sacrifice a land, get two 1/1 Squirrels, as many times as you can afford. The catch is real: you're burning your mana base to fuel the board, so it rewards decks that can replace lands as fast as they spend them. Signpost Scarecrow it is not — this card demands a specific shell, but in that shell it overdelivers.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Squirrel Wrangler is a Commander card through and through — the repeatable token generation scales with the longer game, and green token synergies in EDH are deep enough to mask the land-sacrifice cost. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it's far too slow and mana-intensive to compete; four mana for a 2/2 with a clunky activated ability doesn't register in formats measured in tempo. Commander is the only format where Squirrel Wrangler earns its slot, specifically in landfall or token-doubler shells that convert the drawback into a feature.

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Price Context

Current price

$1.18 cheap tier

At $1.18, Squirrel Wrangler sits in the budget range where you pick it up without a second thought. It's a niche card with a narrow best-in-slot use case, so don't expect the price to climb — it stays cheap because most green token decks can function without it.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.