Card
Rocco, Street Chef
Mana cost {R}{G}{W}
Legendary Creature — Elf Druid 2/4
At the beginning of your end step, each player exiles the top card of their library. Until your next end step, each player may play the card they exiled this way. Whenever a player plays a land from exile or casts a spell from exile, you put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 27 known combos. 8 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MAT · #44
- Cheapest printing
- €0.37
- EDHREC salt
- 0.05
- Color identity
- Green, Red, White
- Keywords
- Food
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
27 known combos.
- Rocco, Street Chef + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Sensei's Divining Top + Academy Manufactor
Produces: Near-infinite artifact tokens, Near-infinite +1/+1 counters, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Rocco, Street Chef + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Sensei's Divining Top + Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
Produces: Near-infinite +1/+1 counters, Near-infinite storm count, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Rocco, Street Chef + Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty + Sensei's Divining Top + Night of the Sweets' Revenge
Produces: Near-infinite +1/+1 counters, Near-infinite storm count, Near-infinite self-discard triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability. - 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type. - 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
If Rocco's last ability triggers because a spell was cast, that ability will resolve before that spell does. If the ability triggers because a land was played, the land will be on the battlefield by the time you put the ability on the stack. If the land entering the battlefield causes any triggered abilities to trigger, those abilities and Rocco's ability will be put on the stack at the same time, with the abilities controlled by the player whose turn it is going on the stack first (and thus resolving last). - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
All cards not played remain exiled. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Unless an effect allows you to play additional lands that turn, you can play a land card you exiled with Rocco only if you haven't played a land yet that turn. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
Playing the card you exiled with Rocco follows the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all applicable timing rules. For example, if the card is a creature card, you can cast that card by paying its mana cost only during your main phase while the stack is empty. - 2023-05-12 · Wizards of the Coast
A player may play the card they exiled with Rocco even if Rocco leaves the battlefield before the duration expires.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast