Food Chain
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color, where X is 1 plus the exiled creature's mana value. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Combos with Food Chain
Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Eternal Scourge Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Prossh, Skyraider of Kher Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinitely powerful creature until end of turn
- Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
- Infinite storm count
- Thrasta, Tempest's Roar Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite commander casts
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Nadier, Agent of the Duskenel Infinite
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite commander casts
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Squee, the Immortal Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Misthollow Griffin Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Aeve, Progenitor Ooze Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite commander casts
- Infinite creature tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on creatures you control
- Jyoti, Moag Ancient Concordant Crossroads Infinite
- Infinite colored mana that can only be spent to cast creature spells
- Infinite commander casts
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite Forest tokens
- Infinite green mana
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite storm count
Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
2 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2004-10-04
This mana may not be used to pay costs imposed after the spell is initially cast.
- 2004-10-04
This mana may be used on additional costs to cast the spell, such as Kicker.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Food Chain, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pantlaza, Sun-Favored | 2 | 6 | 16.7% |
| Flubs, the Fool | 1 | 0 | — |
| Titania, Protector of Argoth | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Naya 2 decks
- Mono-Green 1 deck
- Temur 1 deck
Every version of Food Chain
7 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Inverted
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Eternal
- Foil
- $21.71
Borderless
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $51.26
- Foil
- $49.56
- Normal
- $35.19
- Foil
- $51.57
Etched
- Etched
- $55.22
The List
- Normal
- $48.33
Promo
Judge Gift Cards 2018
- Foil
- $102.66
Mercadian Masques
- Normal
- $52.05
- Foil
- $223.49
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Food Chain — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.