Pizza Face, Gastromancer card art

Pizza party!

Golgari

Commanded by Pizza Face, Gastromancer

100 cards in the deck, 2 on the bench. Played 3 tracked games.

How it has actually done

Not a rating — results from Commander games recorded at a table. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.

Games played 3
Wins 0
Win rate Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
MMR ≈1,376 Still settling — under 10 rated games.

Bracket 3 — Upgraded

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Game Changers 1
Tutors 0
Fast mana 0 Sol Ring excluded — it's in precons.
Extra turns 0

Game Changers in this list

  • 1 Game Changer — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above

What it's built out of

Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100 — a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count; see the 100-card commander deck template.

Still identifying 1 card — every number below reads low until it resolves.

Slot by slot — 6 slots are outside their band, 3 inside
Slot In the deck Target Verdict
Lands 34 50 16 short
Ramp 14 10 4 over
Card advantage 16 10 6 over
Spot removal 5 8 3 short
Board wipes 1 3 2 short
Creatures 28 28 On target
Recursion 6 3 3 over
Protection 4 3 On target
Tutors 0 0 On target
Artifacts 9 No target
Enchantments 19 No target
Instants 8 No target
Sorceries 7 No target
Planeswalkers 1 No target
Graveyard hate 2 No target
Token makers 22 No target
Sacrifice outlets 10 No target

Mana curve

Average mana value 3.23 across 66 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.

  • 0-1 11
  • 2 11
  • 3 15
  • 4 13
  • 5 12
  • 6 4
  • 7+ 0

The written read

An AI review of this specific list, generated by its owner. Bracket 3 — Upgraded.

The deck wins by mass-producing Food tokens and other expendable tokens, using sacrifice outlets and recursion (Ruthless Technomancer, Lich-Knights' Conquest, Whip of Erebos, Tom, Bert, and William, etc.) to return or recur creatures and then turning those creatures into a large, buffed attacking board (amplified by +1/+1 counter synergies like Hardened Scales, Corpsejack Menace, Ozolith and Pizza Face's triggered counters) to drain opponents via combat and life-loss effects; Pizza Face specifically amplifies the +1/+1 counter plan by dumping three counters onto a key permanent each turn after a permanent left the battlefield, fueling the deck's grow-and-sacrifice engine to close the game.

Typically closes around turn 9 in a four-player game. This deck typically closes around turn 9 because it needs multiple token and recursion pieces plus counter setup; adding much faster, repeatable token production or fast mana that accelerates those pieces (the deck's Ramp role) is the single biggest way to move that earlier.

Its three strongest interactions

  • Bristlebud Farmer / Peregrin Took / other Food generators + Lich-Knights' Conquest: you can create lots of Food tokens (which are artifacts/tokens) and then sacrifice those artifacts/tokens to Lich-Knights' Conquest to return many creature cards from your graveyard to the battlefield in one spell.
  • Pizza Face, Gastromancer + Hardened Scales (and/or Corpsejack Menace/Ozolith/Doc Samson): Pizza Face's end step placement of three +1/+1 counters onto another permanent is amplified by Hardened Scales-style effects and counter-doublers here, turning Pizza Face's triggered counters into much larger stat boosts that help close combat quickly.
  • Food/token generators (e.g. Bristlebud Farmer, Gyome, Savvy Hunter, Tireless Provisioner, Heroic Feast) + Ruthless Technomancer (and/or Tom, Bert, and William as a sacrifice/draw outlet): the deck repeatedly creates expendable artifacts/tokens that Ruthless can consume (sacrificing artifacts) to return creatures from the graveyard, and other sacrifice outlets or enter/leave triggers turn token creation into card-advantage and recursion fuel.

Cards that would extend them

  • Parallel Lives: extends the Food generation + Lich-Knights' Conquest synergy by doubling token output so you can pay Lich-Knights' Conquest with far more artifacts/tokens in one go.
  • Primal Vigor: extends the Pizza Face + counter-doublers synergy by doubling the +1/+1 counters the deck produces, making Pizza Face's end-step counters and your other counter sources far more lethal (note: this is not on the Game Changers list).
  • Ashnod's Altar: extends the Food/token generation + Ruthless Technomancer synergy by providing an efficient sacrifice outlet that converts expendable tokens into repeatable resources and enables larger artifact-sacrifice counts to satisfy Ruthless's return ability.

The decklist

100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page — win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.

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Sorcery 1

Still identifying 1

2 on the bench — sideboard and wishlist, outside the 100

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Commander
1 Pizza Face, Gastromancer

Deck
1 Atraxa's Fall
1 Bag End Banquet
1 Bear Umbra
1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
1 Blossoming Bogbeast
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Bolas's Citadel
1 Bower Passage
1 Bridgeworks Battle
1 Bristlebud Farmer
1 Burnished Hart
1 Bushwhack
1 Charge Through
1 Comforting Counsel
1 Command Tower
1 Corpsejack Menace
1 Culling Ritual
1 Dark Prophecy
1 Defiling Daemogoth
1 Dimension X Pizzasaur
1 Espers to Magicite
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Fangren Marauder
1 Festering Gulch
1 Festering Thicket
1 Fog
8 Forest
1 Galadriel, Gift-Giver
1 Golgari Rot Farm
1 Greta, Sweettooth Scourge
1 Gyome, Master Chef
1 Hardened Scales
1 Haunted Mire
1 Heroic Feast
1 Honest Rutstein
1 Humongous Fungus
1 Insatiable Frugivore
1 Inspiring Statuary
1 Jungle Hollow
1 Kodama's Reach
1 Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
1 Lion Umbra
1 Master Chef
1 Michelangelo, the Heart
1 Moldervine Reclamation
1 Moonstone Eulogist
1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
1 Noxious Revival
1 Oran-Rief, the Vastwood
1 Overrun
1 Oviya Pashiri, Sage Lifecrafter
1 Party Dude
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Pawpatch Formation
1 Peregrin Took
1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
1 Primal Vigor
1 Professor Dellian Fel
1 Putrefy
1 Quina, Qu Gourmet
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Return of the Wildspeaker
1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
1 Ruthless Technomancer
1 Savvy Hunter
1 Scavenger's Talent
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Spire of Industry
1 Stocking the Pantry
9 Swamp
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Sylvan Library
1 Temple of the False God
1 Tireless Provisioner
1 Tom, Bert, and William
1 Trudge Garden
1 Utopia Sprawl
1 Welcome to Sweettooth
1 Whip of Erebos
1 Witherbloom Campus
1 Ygra, Eater of All

Sideboard
1 Gilded Goose
1 Stalwart Successor

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