The Underworld Cookbook
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
T, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
4, T, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Combos with The Underworld Cookbook
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.
- Gonti's Aether Heart Mishra, Eminent One Infinite
- Infinite turns
- Lock
- Ovalchase Daredevil Clock of Omens Anointed Procession Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped Food tokens
- Ovalchase Daredevil Clock of Omens Parallel Lives Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped Food tokens
- Ovalchase Daredevil Clock of Omens Primal Vigor Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped Food tokens
- Ovalchase Daredevil Clock of Omens Grinding Station Infinite
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite tapped Food tokens
- Academy Manufactor Clock of Omens Metalwork Colossus Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite Treasure tokens
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite Food tokens
- Academy Manufactor Clock of Omens Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite rummaging
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Near-infinite tapped Food tokens
- Near-infinite tapped Treasure tokens
- Ovalchase Daredevil Academy Manufactor Clock of Omens Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact LTB
- Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite card draw
- Infinite Clue tokens
- Infinite colored mana
- Infinite draw triggers
- Infinite Food tokens
- Infinite lifegain
- Infinite lifegain triggers
- Infinite self-discard triggers
- Infinite Treasure tokens
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
4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2021-06-18
The Underworld Cookbook's last ability can target any creature card in your graveyard, not just one discarded with its first ability. For example, if a Granite Gargoyle you control dies after being dealt damage by Lightning Axe, you could use The Underworld Cookbook to make a delicious Gargoyle entrée.
- 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
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 Underworld Cookbook, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treebeard, Gracious Host | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Selesnya 1 deck
The Underworld Cookbook price history
The Modern Horizons 2 #240 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.72 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.72 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.72 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.72 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.72 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.72 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.72 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.72 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.72 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $0.34 | $0.72 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $0.35 | $0.70 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.73 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.29 | $0.74 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $0.31 | $0.74 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.32 | $0.74 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.76 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.33 | $0.75 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.36 | $0.75 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of The Underworld Cookbook
2 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.
- Normal
- $0.34
- Foil
- $0.72
- Normal
- $0.30
- Foil
- $1.18
- Etched
- $3.74
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 Underworld Cookbook. 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.
