The Goose Mother
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
Flying
The Goose Mother enters with X +1/+1 counters on it.
When The Goose Mother enters, create half X Food tokens, rounded up.
Whenever The Goose Mother attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, draw a card.
Combos with The Goose Mother
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- A Realm Reborn Academy Manufactor Temur Sabertooth Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite blinking
- Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- 2024-11-08
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 2024-11-08
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 Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
- 2024-11-08
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes The Goose Mother, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zimone, Infinite Analyst | 4 | 0 | — |
| Choco, Seeker of Paradise | 1 | 0 | — |
| Zaxara, the Exemplary | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Simic 4 decks
- Sultai 1 deck
- Bant 1 deck
The Goose Mother price history
The Secrets of Strixhaven Commander #312 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $0.34 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $0.33 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.32 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.31 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.32 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of The Goose Mother
6 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
- Normal
- $0.33
Promo
Media and Collaboration Promos
- Foil
- $0.23
- Normal
- $0.37
- Foil
- $2.68
Promo
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
- Normal
- $1.45
- Foil
- $5.83
Promo
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
- Foil
- $4.00
Extended Art
- Normal
- $5.03
- Foil
- $5.58
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for The Goose Mother. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
