Taste of Death
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2021C21 · #156
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.19 € · 0.43 $
- Mana value
- 6
- Colour
- Black
Card text
Each player sacrifices three creatures of their choice. You create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Chris Rallis
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2021-04-23
Flavour text
"Hone the knife and mourn the least. Three chimes to sound the sweet, grim feast." —Barrow witch incantation
Rulings
As Taste of Death resolves, first the player whose turn it is chooses three creatures they control, then each other player in turn order does the same, knowing the choices made before them. Then all the chosen creatures are sacrificed at the same time.
If a player controls three or fewer creatures, that player sacrifices each creature they control.
You create three Food tokens, no matter how many creatures were actually sacrificed, even if some or all players sacrificed no creatures.
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
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.
