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Cheeky House-Mouse // Squeak By

Creature — Mouse // Sorcery — AdventureWhite manaWhite mana

The oldest problem with tiny aggressive creatures is that they stop connecting the moment the board fills up, and this white one-drop uses its two-spells-in-one structure to answer it. The creature half is a plain body any swarm deck would run and forget. Squeak By, cast first and tucked into exile for later, is where the design earns its keep: it grants a small attacker evasion against the exact class of creature that would otherwise wall it, since anything with power 3 or greater simply can't declare a block. The catch is that it's a sorcery, so this is not held-up combat interaction. You commit to the plan on your own main phase, before blockers are even a question, then swing knowing the big defenders are locked out. That sorcery timing is what pays for a swing-warping effect at one mana: you telegraph the attack rather than ambush a defender. Then the mouse comes back around later as a body, so the pump was never a card down. The structural elegance is that both halves want the same deck: a go-wide board that needs both bodies and a way to unstick a stalled attack, delivered by one card played across two turns. It gives a low-to-the-ground white deck the flexibility of a second spell without ever sacrificing the creature count the strategy depends on.

Cheeky House-Mouse // Squeak By (woe)
WOE · #7uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.31
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures with power 3 or greater this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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