Card
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
Mana cost {2}
Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Knight 3/1
Syr Ginger has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker. Whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 20 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · WOE · #252
- Cheapest printing
- €0.75
- EDHREC salt
- 0.12
- Keywords
- Scry
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
20 known combos.
- Samwise Gamgee + Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Gingerbrute + Academy Manufactor + Peregrin Took
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender + Animation Module + Krark-Clan Ironworks
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-09-01 · Wizards of the Coast
For Syr Ginger's last ability, use its power from when it was last on the battlefield to determine how much life is gained. If that power was 0 or less, you gain no life.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast