Bartered Cow
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The ListPLST · #ELD-6
- Card type
- Creature — Ox
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.15 € · 0.27 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 3
- Toughness
- 3
- Colour
- White
Card text
When this creature dies and when you discard this card, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Deruchenko Alexander
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-09-26
Flavour text
At the market, no one heeded Hilda's frantic mooing. The fae curse was turning out even worse than she had feared.
Rulings
Bartered Cow's ability is a triggered ability, not an activated ability. It doesn't allow you to discard it or sacrifice it whenever you want; rather, you need some other way of discarding it or causing it to die.
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.
