Squeeze
Enchantment
Sorcery spells cost 
more to cast.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Mercadian Masques
- Price
- $0.46
- EDHREC rank
- #25620
Squeeze locks down every creature an opponent controls until end of turn — no attacks, no blocks, no activated abilities — for three mana at instant speed. It's a surgical silence on the board when you need to push through lethal or stop a combo mid-chain, and three mana is a fair price for that scope.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Squeeze earns its slot: multiplayer tables create situations where one player's creature board is the entire problem, and Squeeze answers all of it at once without requiring you to target each threat individually. The instant speed matters most here — it doubles as a combat trick and a combo-stopper. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but competes with a dense field of efficient interaction that handles threats more permanently, so it rarely sees play. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander at a smaller scale; the effect is still clean and usable.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.46 bulk tier
At $0.46, Squeeze sits in bulk rare territory — cheap enough to slot in without budget consideration. Bulk rares at this price point tend to stay flat unless a breakout deck pushes demand, and a single-target-player instant with no competitive-format home has a low ceiling.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.