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Rocco, Street Chef

Legendary Creature — Elf DruidRed manaGreen manaWhite mana

Impulse-draw effects have a symmetry problem: hand the whole table a fresh card off the top every turn and you have built a Howling Mine that helps everyone equally, which is to say it helps you least, since you paid the mana to cast it. This design turns that symmetry into a trigger economy. The group exile is the bait; the payoff clause only cares who actually spends the card. Every land dropped or spell cast from exile, by any player, feeds a +1/+1 counter and a Food token to your side. So the table is incentivized to use the impulse cards (nobody likes seeing them evaporate at end step), and every one of those plays quietly tightens a growth engine that runs on other people's decisions. The counters can pile onto a single threat or spread across a board; the Food banks life against the aggression a card-advantage table tends to produce. It is a rare piece that profits from generosity rather than hoarding, closer in spirit to the "everybody draws, I benefit" pressure of a group-hug shell than to a solitaire value pile. The 2/4 body is deliberately unassuming for a three-color legend: it is not meant to attack for the win, but to sit behind a growing pile of counters while the exile trigger does the accumulating. The friction is that the engine only fires if the cards get played, which means the pilot's edge comes from building a board that converts those triggers faster than anyone else at the table can.

Rocco, Street Chef (mat)
MAT · #144rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.53
Foil: $0.62
Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, each player exiles the top card of their library. Until your next end step, each player may play the card they exiled this way. Whenever a player plays a land from exile or casts a spell from exile, you put a +1/+1 counter on target creature and 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
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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