Squee's Embrace
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2.
When enchanted creature dies, return that card to its owner's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.22
- EDHREC rank
- #16039
Squee's Embrace puts +2/+2 and flying on a creature and bounces itself to your hand when that creature dies — a persistent pump that's genuinely hard to strand. The cost is two mana to cast and one to reattach each time, which adds up fast in anything but a dedicated go-wide or token shell where General Ferrous Rokiric can absorb the overhead.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
General Ferrous Rokiric
General Ferrous Rokiric triggers on every multicolored spell, and Squee's Embrace returns to hand on creature death — so the Golems it makes become a renewable set of bodies to re-suit, turning removal into an engine rather than a setback.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Squee's Embrace occupies a narrow lane: token and go-wide decks that can recycle it through creature churn, particularly those generating expendable bodies from multicolored spells. In Pauper it's legal but competes in an aggressive format where two-mana auras that don't replace themselves are risky — the bounce clause partially redeems it, but blue-black tempo shells rarely want this effect. Legacy and Vintage have no interest; the effect is too small for those formats' game-ending threats. Squee's Embrace is at its ceiling in Commander, specifically in decks that plan to lose creatures regularly and want a persistent way to pressure a single blocker.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.22 bulk tier
At $0.22, Squee's Embrace is deep bulk — a throwaway pickup that costs less than a sleeve. Bulk rares with narrow appeal tend to stay at this floor indefinitely, so there's no financial case to hoard copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.