Samwise Gamgee

Food had lived, up to a point, as a currency of small incremental gain: a token you crack for three life when the game grinds down. This ties the resource to a second, entirely separate axis. Every nontoken creature you play stocks the pantry, and three of those tokens buy back a historic card (any artifact, legendary, or Saga) from the graveyard. The pairing is deliberate: a go-wide creature deck feeds the engine, and the engine recurs the highest-value permanents that deck runs, so the loop is self-reinforcing without ever asking you to draw a dedicated recursion spell. The two-mana body is a footnote to the conversion rate and the breadth of what "historic" covers. The clever restriction is that Food is the only exchange rate on offer here. You cannot recur anything without first committing bodies to the board and holding those tokens, which means the recursion is always downstream of a battlefield presence you already had to build. It reframes Food from an emergency lifegain button into a stockpiled resource with a long-term payoff, and it does so in the color pair (Green-White) that already wants to flood the board with creatures. The flavor tracks the mechanics precisely: the loyal servant who provisions the journey and carries the burden of keeping things alive.