Chatter of the Squirrel

Two squirrels for three mana total, paid in installments, and the installment plan is the design idea worth sitting with. Green's flashback-themed graveyard era wanted commons that filled the yard while still earning their place on the battlefield, and this card splits its payment cleanly across the timeline: one mana now for a body, the card waiting in the graveyard as a held threat, then two more whenever you have the mana to spare and want the second token. The value never changes; what changes is when you collect it. That makes it a slot-thinner, occupying one card where two bodies would normally cost two, and it feeds any engine that counts on creatures arriving or cards filling the graveyard. The Squirrel typing is not incidental, either: the block built a quiet tribal payoff around the creatures, and few single cards generate two of them. Strip the flavor away and the structural lesson endures: a cheap token-maker that recurs once from exile-bound flashback is a deckbuilding economy most card-advantage strategies will take every time, because it asks for nothing but a second land drop and patience.