The Commander
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Guide
Gameplan
Squee is a recursion engine you abuse for value, not a beatdown threat. Discard or sacrifice him repeatedly to fuel madness, reanimator-style payoffs, looting, and sacrifice synergies, then grind opponents out with endless fodder. Since he comes back every upkeep from the graveyard, you treat him as a renewable resource that never runs out.
Strengths
- Infinite recurring fodder for sacrifice, discard, and looting outlets
- Mono-red consistency and access to fast ramp like Treasures and rituals
- Excellent free engine that costs no mana to reuse once he's in the yard
- Enables value loops with cards that care about repeated discard or sacrifice
Weaknesses
- No inherent way to win or generate card advantage on his own
- Mono-red color identity limits access to interaction and card draw
- Slow grind plan can be outpaced by faster combo decks
- Recursion only triggers on your upkeep, so he's gone for a full turn cycle once used
Key Cards
- Skullclamp — Turns Squee tokens or sacrificed copies into a relentless card-draw engine.
- Goblin Bombardment — Free sacrifice outlet that pings down opponents using endlessly returning Squee.
- Birgi, God of Storytelling — Generates mana every time you replay Squee, fueling storm and ritual lines.
- Faithless Looting — Cheap looting that benefits from Squee being a 'free' discard you get back anyway.
- Bag of Holding — Recurs your discarded spells while you loop Squee through discard outlets.
Upgrade Path
Lean into a focused engine: pair Squee with free sacrifice outlets (Goblin Bombardment, Ashnod's Altar) and payoffs (Mayhem Devil, Blood Artist analogues) for a tight aristocrats loop. Add fast mana like Jeska's Will, Dockside Extortionist, and rituals to support a Birgi storm finish, and tutors like Gamble or Goblin Recruiter to assemble pieces. Tighten the curve and prioritize cards that convert repeated discard/sacrifice into damage or card advantage rather than slow value.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Aristocrats drain via Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat effects looping Squee
- ▸Storm/ritual combos powered by Birgi mana generation
- ▸Wide Goblin board buffed by Goblin Chieftain or Krenko-style swarms
- ▸Repeated burn pings from Goblin Bombardment-style sacrifice outlets
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Squee is unlimited free sacrifice fodder for drain and Blood Artist effects.
- Spellslinger/Storm — Recurring Squee feeds Birgi and discard-for-value engines to chain rituals and burn.
- Reanimator/Madness — Discarding Squee fuels madness and reanimation outlets without losing a card.
- Goblin Tribal — He's a resilient Goblin engine that supports go-wide token and tribal payoffs.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (R), by popularity.
