The Art of Tea
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Instant — Lesson
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.31 € · ★ 0.29 € · 0.25 $ · ★ 0.34 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. 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
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- 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
- Eilene Cherie
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2025-11-21
Flavour text
"The secret ingredient is love." —Iroh
Rulings
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
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 Bosco, Just a Bear's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). 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 Bosco, Just a Bear's ability.
Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.