Hello all and happiest of days to each of you! Not too long ago, I wrote up a Mono-Green Bosco Brew around Food for Legendary dorks we had in play. That inspired me to do a list of my top Food Commanders, and now it seems fitting to do a list for my favorite Support cards for food strategies! These are some of the best cards you can add to your brews that care about Food (notwithstanding generic token doublers like Doubling Season)!
Honorable Mention #1. (#11. Overall) - The Battle of Bywater
The Battle of Bywater is a three-cost sorcery that has to be mentioned since mass removal is rare in themes like this. It destroys all creatures with 3 or more power! Great! And when the deed is done, we get a Food for each creature that survived. What a smart way to do a sweeper for a Food deck!
#10. Savvy Hunter
Savvy Hunter is an on-curve 3/3 3-drop uncommon dork that makes a Food as it attacks or blocks. Not bad! Then you can two sac Food for no mana cost and without tapping the Hunter to draw a card. Get it and run it and swing to make Food tokens and draw cards!
#9. Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
Nuka-Cola Vending Machine is next. You can tap it for a mana to make a Food token! Then you make a tapped Treasure whenever you sacrifice a Food Token. Not bad, right? Right! But it's a little pricey on the secondary market, hence it's lower placing on the list.
#8. Rapacious Guest
Next up is this rare, Black Gray Ogre menace creature, Rapacious Guest. When your creatures deal combat damage, you make a Food token. It's a Food-making take on Coastal Piracy! Then, as we sac our Food tokens, we toss a +1/+1 counter on the Guest. Note that there's no timing or per turn limit on the sacrifice ability, so you can make tons of counters, but you only get one Food per combat. For a final ability, as this leaves the battlefield (not dies), target opponent loses life equal to the Guest's power. That's plain nasty in the right Food brew.
#7. Experimental Confectioner
Next up is this 3-drop uncommon 2/3, Experimental Confectioner. It arrives with a Food and then as Food tokens are sacked, we make a 1/1 Rat that cannot block. And that's one per food, not once per turn! Seems pretty strong to me.
#6. Banquet Guests
This Selesnya
spell has Affinity for Food, which is amazing on a creature with X in its cost. Banquet Guests is evasive (with trample) and arrives with twice X +1/+1 counters! Then you can spend two mana and sac a Food to give the Guests indestructible until the end of the turn (and you don't even have to tap them!).
#5. Bill the Pony
Everyone's favorite steed 4-drop 1/4 uncommon legendary dork, Bill the Pony, arrives with two Food and then sacs one for no mana to allow one creature to deal damage equal to its toughness until the end of the turn. Not bad and very flavorful.
#4. Gilded Goose
Next up is this classic 1-drop Birds of Paradise variant that dominated Standard, Gilded Goose. It arrives with a Food and then taps for no mana to sac a Food and make a mana of any color. Then you can tap it for ![]()
to make a Food. That first mana acceleration on our second turn to power out a 3-drop Commander is enough!
#3. Peregin Took
Peregrin Took, an uncommon 3-drop 2/3 legendary dork, is next. As you make any kind of token, toss in a free Food! Then we can sac three Food to draw a card. I love this for when someone has a sweeper on the stack. Embrace it!
#2. Night of the Sweets' Revenge
I adore this 4-drop Green enchantment that arrives with a Food! Night of the Sweets' Revenge makes it so your Food can tap for Green mana, so now you may want to keep them around instead of sacrificing them. That mana feeds into the seven-mana ability to sac this enchantment and pump your team based on your Food count for a game winning strike (but only as a sorcery). What a total package!
#1. Academy Manufactor
Our top card is fairly obvious and absolutely deserves to be at the top of the list. It's Academy Manufactor. Whenever you create a Food, Treasure, or Clue token, you also make the other two as well! Love it and it's on a colorless artifact creature, so it fits right into any deck.
There we go! I hope you enjoyed my look at some of the top Food support cards! What are your go-tos when you're building a food deck?














