Card

Samwise Gamgee

Mana cost {G}{W}

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant 2/2

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice three Foods: Return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 94 known combos. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · LTR · #222
Cheapest printing
€1.30
EDHREC salt
0.23
Color identity
Green, White
Keywords
Food

Scryfall · EDHREC

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

94 known combos.

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
    If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
  • 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell" won't trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won't trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a card with the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn't make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus—an object either is historic or it isn't.
  • 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
    An ability that triggers "whenever you cast a historic spell" doesn't trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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