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Greta, Sweettooth Scourge

Legendary Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Food is usually a passive resource: a life-buffer stapled to a card as an afterthought, redeemed later for three life when the game slows down. What this Golgari build does is turn that spare token into a currency with two exchange rates, and the design lives in the split. The green mode buys board presence at sorcery speed, sinking a Food into a permanent +1/+1 counter that outlasts the token that paid for it. The black mode buys cards at instant speed, trading a Food and 1 life for a draw, so the same token that would have gained you three life now spends itself refilling the hand instead. Every Food becomes a fork between growing the board slowly and drawing at a small life cost, and the enters trigger seeds the loop with the first token before you have committed to either lane. It reads as a value creature and it is one, but the sharper account is a sacrifice outlet that manufactures its own fodder, converting artifact tokens into the two things a grindy midrange deck runs short of. The 3/3 body is the least interesting thing here; it exists so the counter mode has a place to land and so the card does something on an empty board. The real design work is that a Food generator and a Food sink live in the same card, closing a resource loop most Food cards leave dangling on one end.

Greta, Sweettooth Scourge (woe)
WOE · #205uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.38
Foil: $0.36
Oracle Text

Rules text

When Greta enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Green mana, Sacrifice a Food: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Activate only as a sorcery. 1 generic manaBlack mana, Sacrifice a Food: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

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