Pizza Face, Gastromancer

BG Food sits at the center of the format's artifact-and-sacrifice axis, and this is the card the archetype is built around at uncommon. P1P3 to P1P5 for a drafter already committed to the colors, later than that only because the five-drop slot is contested and the card asks you to have already built the engine that pays it off. Maindeck in BG Food and BG Aristocrats, or a Sultai build splashing for it on the strength of the format's good fixing. Outside those shells it's a 2/4 that makes a Food, which is fine and nothing more.

The trigger gates on a permanent leaving, and the Food it manufactures on entry is itself the enabler if you have an outlet. Anchovy & Banana Pizza gives BG drafters a turn-three play that doubles as a Disappear primer, so the engine can be online before this even resolves: with a pre-enabled Disappear, the cast resolves into a 2/4 plus a fresh 3/3 from the counters, which is the ceiling you're drafting toward. Equipment like Bespoke Bō reads like a counter target, but the math is worse than it looks: a piece of gear that becomes a Mutant unattaches the instant it animates, so you get a 3/3 standing alone, not a buffed attacker. Aim the counters at a real body instead.

The removal suite is where the card gets honest. Stomped by the Foot answers it cleanly, and four toughness dodges most red burn, but the body alone isn't what five mana buys. If the answer's ready on resolution, you've paid five for a Food and a trigger that never fires. The whole package is downstream of timing: draft the enablers before the payoff, because Pizza Face arriving first is a slow body waiting on an engine you haven't built yet.

The Disappear trigger is the engine, and it wants a deck already built around permanents leaving the battlefield on your terms. Korvold, Fae-Cursed King is the obvious home: Korvold is sacrificing something nearly every turn, so the end-step condition is met for free, and the three counters land on a Treasure-turned-Mutant or on Korvold itself. Gyome, Master Chef makes a tighter case, since the Food the card hands you on entry feeds Gyome's own sacrifice-for-tokens plan and the Disappear clause animates a leftover Food into a body. Both are black-green aristocrats-meets-artifacts shells, which is exactly the seam this card sits in.

This is a Bracket 2-3 piece. The five-mana body is a 2/4 that does nothing the turn it lands beyond making one Food, and the counters arrive on your end step, a full rotation slow for any high-power table. The fifteen-life ability costs ten mana and the creature itself, so it never competes with the engine: it is the off-ramp Korvold pilots reach for when the table is racing them, not a plan.

As a value-engine, it is the eighth or ninth sacrifice-payoff in those lists, not a curve play. Compared to Mayhem Devil, which pings on every sacrifice and pressures the board immediately, Pizza Face is slower and conditional but converts a dead artifact into a real threat, which Mayhem Devil never does. Casual budget Korvold and Gyome builds can run both.

Expect a sub-$5 secondary price; nothing here is reaching cEDH or precon-power tables. Outside black-green sacrifice and artifact-token shells, the Disappear trigger simply never turns on, and the card is a 2/4 that makes a snack.

A five-mana 2/4 that hands you a Food on entry and asks you to sacrifice permanents to grow something already on the board is looking for a black-green sacrifice shell, and the closest active one in Modern is Yawgmoth Combo. The slot it would contest there is the engine-payoff slot, currently held by Yawgmoth, Thran Physician himself alongside the persist bodies that feed him. The comparison is not close. Yawgmoth's drain loop converts each sacrifice into damage and a card; Pizza Face converts permanents leaving play into +1/+1 counters at end step, on a delayed trigger that does nothing the turn you cast it. The deck wins by looping, not by growing a single threat, and a counter pile is not a kill.

The only other plausible home is an artifact-sacrifice value deck, where the incumbent is Wrenn and Six in the colors that overlap, or more honestly nothing, because Modern's black-green decks do not run a five-mana payoff that gates its reward behind a permanent leaving and pays out one turn later. The animation clause looks like graveyard recursion at a glance and is not: it grows artifacts still in play, which Yawgmoth has no reason to keep around.

Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play this season. The clock is the problem. Five mana for an end-step trigger is a turn too slow for a format where Yawgmoth is killing on three and four, and the fifteen-life ability at ten mana is an off-ramp no Modern deck has the time to reach. No active home.

A five-mana payoff for a black-green artifact-sacrifice deck in Standard, the kind of build-around the format has not assembled around it yet. The Disappear trigger asks you to be cracking Treasures, Clues, or its own Food every turn and to have a second artifact or creature already in play worth growing, which is two demands at once on a 2/4 body that does nothing the turn it lands. Legal, but it has yet to register in tracked tournament play, and there is no Standard shell currently asking for it. Brew fodder for now.

Released this season and legal, but yet to register in any tracked tournament list. The structural read explains why. Disappear wants a deck built on two axes at once: artifacts that leave the battlefield on demand (Treasures, Clues, the Food it hands you on entry) and a static noncreature artifact you want to animate and grow. Pioneer's black-green builds do not currently care about either half. The closest things, Golgari Food in its various sacrifice configurations and the treasure-leaning Rakdos midrange shells, are not artifact-matters decks in the way this card needs; they sacrifice for value engines that read the graveyard, and Disappear pointedly does not touch the graveyard. Nothing comes back. The trigger only grows a permanent already in play.

At five mana for a 2/4 that demands you have already built the surrounding board, it sits above the curve in a format where the black-green midrange decks top out on creatures that affect the game the turn they land. The ten-mana lifegain valve is irrelevant to that conversation.

There is no slot competition to map because there is no slot. The artifact-aristocrats hybrid this rewards is a deck that has not been built in tournament Pioneer, and the existing Golgari and Rakdos shells have settled on engines that ignore what Disappear offers. This needs an archetype that does not exist on the format's current map, not a flex spot in one that does.

A five-mana 2/4 in a format where Black Lotus makes three mana on turn zero and Ancestral Recall draws three for one. The Disappear engine wants sacrifice fodder and a board to grow, neither of which the Power Nine equilibrium has time for. Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play. Noise.

A five-mana 2/4 in a format where the most-played black-green payoffs cost a fraction of that. The Disappear engine wants you cracking artifacts every turn to feed a counter trigger, which is the kind of build-around that pays the Force of Will tax on the way in and gets nothing in return. Legacy's aristocrats and artifact decks already have faster engines, and nothing here approaches the rate of Reanimate at one or the free interaction that gates the format. A 2/4 body that demands a permanent leave each turn to grow a separate target is a draft uncommon's text on a Legacy review page. Does not clear the bar.

Legal, but yet to register in tracked tournament play this season.