Hobbit's Sting

Board-scaling removal is old white territory, but pinning the count to two separate populations at once is the wrinkle. The damage scales with creatures, sure, but it also scales with Foods, which means a token engine built around baking snacks feeds the same math as a wide creature board. That dual-tribute design pulls the card out of the usual go-wide payoff lane: it rewards the sacrifice-and-bake ecosystem where Food accumulates incidentally, and it lets a board that looks unimpressive in combat still throw a large number at a blocker or a threat. The two-mana instant frame lets it size up mid-attack or answer something at the end of an opponent's turn once your board has filled out, rather than committing to a fixed number the moment you cast it. It does need a developed board to earn its slot, which is the tension every board-scaling removal spell carries: dead early, lethal late, and the slope between those points is steeper here than the rate suggests because two resource pools both count. The card belongs to a small lineage of white damage spells that borrow red's job by taxing your own committed resources rather than paying mana for the effect directly, and the Food clause is what stretches that idea past the usual creature-count ceiling.