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Brandywine Farmer

Creature — Halfling Peasant2 generic manaGreen mana

Two Food tokens from one 1/1: one when the Halfling arrives, another when it dies, blinks, bounces, or gets sacrificed itself. That symmetry is the whole design idea. Most enters-the-battlefield engines pay once and then leave a fragile body sitting around; this one pays on the way out too, which quietly changes how you want to treat it. Instead of protecting the creature, you look for reasons to recycle it: a sacrifice outlet, a flicker effect, a bounce spell, anything that fires the leave trigger and then the enter trigger again. The body is deliberately negligible so the tokens carry the card, and because Food is an artifact that also feeds affinity, treasure-adjacent counting, and life-gain payoffs, the creature reads less as a beater than as a two-for-one artifact battery wearing a peasant's coat. The catch is that neither Food does anything by itself: cracking both for the six life costs four mana across the two activations, a rate nobody plays for the life, so the payoff lives entirely in what the artifacts enable rather than what they say. Left alone, it is a 1/1 that made you a snack. Handed to a deck built to loop it, it becomes a repeatable engine that produces two artifacts per cycle, which is a very different card than the stat line suggests.

Brandywine Farmer (ltr)
LTR · #606common
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
Foil: $0.34
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters or leaves the battlefield, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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