Card
Ginger, Queen of Sweets
Mana cost {6}
Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Noble 6/4
When Ginger enters, you become the monarch. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice Ginger: You gain 6 life. At the beginning of each upkeep, if you're the monarch, create a Gingerbrute token. (It's a {1} 1/1 Food Golem artifact creature with haste, "{1}: This token can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste," and "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. 6 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · FRC · #14
- Cheapest printing
- €0.14
- EDHREC salt
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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
No known combos for this card.
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
If the triggered ability that causes the monarch to draw a card goes on the stack and a different player becomes the monarch before that ability resolves, the first player will still draw the card. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
If the monarch leaves the game during another player's turn, that player becomes the monarch. If the monarch leaves the game during their turn, the next player in turn order becomes the monarch. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
There are two inherent triggered abilities associated with being the monarch. These triggered abilities have no source and are controlled by the player who was the monarch at the time the abilities triggered. The full texts of these abilities are "At the beginning of the monarch's end step, that player draws a card" and "Whenever a creature deals combat damage to the monarch, its controller becomes the monarch." - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
Ginger's last ability creates a token that's a copy of the card Gingerbrute in the Oracle card reference. Official text for Gingerbrute can be found using the Gatherer card database at Gatherer.Wizards.com. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
If combat damage dealt to the monarch causes that player to lose the game, the triggered ability that causes the controller of the attacking creature to become the monarch doesn't resolve. In most cases, the controller of the attacking creature will still become the monarch as it is likely their turn. - 2026-08-21 · Wizards of the Coast
The game starts with no monarch. Once an effect makes one player the monarch, the game will have exactly one monarch from that point forward. As a player becomes the monarch, the current monarch (if any) ceases being the monarch.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast