Squee, Dubious Monarch
Squee has always been a joke about persistence: the goblin who cannot stay dead, first as the unkillable comedian who returned to hand every upkeep, later as free-recursion fodder that fed madness and reanimator loops. This version keeps the running gag but hangs a real threat off it. The graveyard cast cost is where the design lives: plus exiling four other cards turns the yard into fuel, so every trip back to the battlefield taxes your own graveyard rather than your hand. That self-exile is the pressure valve that stops it from being a bottomless value machine; you can recast it repeatedly, but each recursion strip-mines the resource that makes the loop possible, and eventually the graveyard runs dry. In between, the card does something the older Squees never did: it applies pressure. Haste plus a Goblin token that arrives tapped and attacking means every attack step widens the board without asking for follow-up mana, and a body you can rebuy from the yard that keeps generating attackers grinds toward inevitability rather than punchline. The prior incarnations were built to be sacrificed, discarded, and looped as combo pieces; this one is built to be killed and to come back meaner, trading the free-recursion gimmick for a graveyard cost that makes the recursion an actual decision.




