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If you’ve ever opened a box from Unfinity and stared at an Attraction that asks you to stack dice faster than a goblin can roll a d20, you know Squirrel Stack isn’t about grindy mana curves. It’s about timing, chance, and a little bit of chaos-sparked green insurance for your board. This artifact — a Visit that asks you to race the clock and stack five dice to unleash a cascade of green 1/1 Squirrel tokens — is the sort of card that turns casual office-hours games into forest-fire table talk. 🧙🔥🪄 It rewards bold play, clever dice management, and a willingness to lean into fractionally ridiculous outcomes. And when you pair it with the right commanders, that token swarm becomes less a gimmick and more a grinding engine you can rely on—if you built your deck with the right partner in mind. 💎⚔️
What makes Squirrel Stack tick
From the Unfinity set, Squirrel Stack is an Attraction with a playful twist. It features a Visit — you have five seconds to stack dice on top of one another. If you stack at least five dice, you claim the Prize: create a number of 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens for each die stacked above the fourth, then sacrifice the Attraction and open another Attraction. In practical terms, you’re racing for a storm of squirrels that scales with your dice-tapping tempo. The mechanic leans into dice-centric play patterns and spectacle storytelling, making it a perfect centerpiece for token-heavy strategies that want a big, messy payoff without needing to pay a lot of mana to start the party. 🎲🎨
Why token swarms love green mana and white resilience
Token swarm decks in Commander-style play have long thrived when you pair green’s ramp with white’s anthem and protection. Squirrel Stack sits at the intersection of “fun puzzle” and “board-wide payoff,” so the commanders you choose should either amplify token output or weather the inevitable overrun. Think of it as a collaborative project: your deck builds the field up, and your commanders push the volume of tokens, buffs, and survivability across the finish line. The scent of pine and the clatter of dice become the rhythm section of your plan. 🧙♂️🌲💥
Top commander pairings for this effect
Below are thematically rich, practical pairings that showcase how Squirrel Stack can scale from a quirky Unfinity moment into a roaring token army under two commanders in casual or homebrew formats. Each pairing emphasizes different strengths—doubling, anthem support, or token-dense synergies—to maximize the payoff when you finally open that prize. Note: Squirrel Stack is from Unfinity and isn’t legal in official Commander play, but at a kitchen-table level, these pairings spark inventive decks and merry chaos. 🧙🔥
- Rhys the Redeemed + Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice — Tap into pure token amplification. Rhys’s evergreen theme of doubling tokens makes every Squirrel Stack payoff explode into twice (or more, with other effects on board). Trostani’s presence as a white-green beacon adds the anthem-like feel that buffs your growing army and helps you push through during stalled boards. In practice, you’ll stack five dice, watch the Prize convert into a forest’s worth of 1/1 squirrels, and watch your team sprint to a massive army buffer just as the Attraction finally opens. It’s a big green grin with a white border, and a few celebratory dice clacks for good measure. 🐿️🪄
- Rhys the Redeemed + Chatterfang, Squirrel General — A squirrel-centric engine meets token-doubling firepower. Chatterfang’s death-triggered squirrel generation synergizes beautifully with Squirrel Stack’s token surge. Doubling tokens with Rhys means every prize produces an avalanche of squirrels, and any squirrels that die during combat or board wipes can feed Chatterfang’s trigger to spawn even more squirrels. It’s a loop you can lean into, especially on a board that’s already posting a hungry, evergreen presence. The result is a snowballing swarm that can overwhelm an unsuspecting table with cute, furry clockwork. 🧝♂️⚙️🐿️
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Trostani, Selesnya’s Voice — Two-card synergy built around resilience and tempo. With Chatterfang handling squirrel generation on death, and Trostani supplying broad token support and staying power, your Squirrel Stack payoff becomes less a one-shot and more a sustained flood. The combination excels in long games where attrition and tempo wins the day; you’ll be delivering a cascade of tokens with every exchange, and your total board presence will look less like a gimmick and more like a thriving woodland fortress. 🎲🎨
Practical tips to maximize the ride
- Include a few safe havens for your dice window. A compact mix of protective auras and counterplay helps you preserve the moment you ignite the stack.
- Plan for token amplification beyond the attraction. Cards like anthem enablers or token-doubling effects multiply the Prize yield dramatically, turning five dice into a winter-wonderland of squirrels.
- Keep the dice-stack mechanic visible. In a multiplayer game, maintain a clear “dice window” so everyone can appreciate the puzzle and feel the payoff when the dice finally stack just right. 🧙♀️🎲
In the end, Squirrel Stack is less about the raw power of a single card and more about the shared narrative of a turn-by-turn token siege. The right commander pairing makes the difference between a fun oddity and a memorable, table-wide spectacle. It’s a reminder that in Magic, sometimes the most delightful wins come from clever synergy, not just a giant creature beating down your opponent—though that’s nice too. 🎨⚔️
If you’re exploring a fun two-commander or casual deck built around token swarms and quirky attractions, you’ll want a solid play surface and a dash of style. That’s where a certain neon-magic accessory comes in—the Neon Gaming Mouse Pad Rectangle—an ideal companion for those long table sessions where you’ll be counting dice, monitoring tokens, and narrating your woodland uprising in grand, gleeful style. Ready to level up your setup?