Card
The Goose Mother
Mana cost {X}{G}{U}
Legendary Creature — Bird Hydra 2/2
Flying The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up. Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 2 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · WOE · #204
- Cheapest printing
- €0.27
- EDHREC salt
- 0.20
- Color identity
- Green, Blue
- Keywords
- Flying, 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
2 known combos.
- The Goose Mother + A Realm Reborn + Academy Manufactor + Temur Sabertooth
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - The Goose Mother + A Realm Reborn + Academy Manufactor + Meticulous Excavation
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2024-11-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards. - 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
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.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast