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Savvy Hunter

Creature — Human Warrior1 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana

Most Food payoffs treat the tokens as a resource you spend elsewhere; this one is both the maker and the eater in a single body, and the loop closes on the battlefield. The trigger fires on either side of combat: attacking makes a Food, blocking makes a Food, so the card generates fuel whether it is the aggressor or the wall. A 3/3 for 1 generic manaBlack manaGreen mana is exactly the body that wants to be swinging or standing in front of something on any given turn, and every second combat step edges you closer to a draw without ever committing a spell. The tension worth sitting with is what the sacrifice-two clause quietly reprioritizes: the life gain the Food carries is almost incidental, a small buffer banked on the way to the card you actually want, so a mechanic built to stabilize gets bent toward card advantage instead. That makes it a grindy Golgari value engine that turns a mundane attack step into a slow, repeatable source of cards, and it does the converting itself rather than leaning on a separate outlet. The whole apparatus (production, storage, and cash-out) lives on one 3/3, which is the unusual part: it needs no Food theme built around it, only combat and time.

Savvy Hunter (eld)
ELD · #200uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.23
Foil: $0.68
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic mana, Tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice two Foods: Draw a card.
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
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
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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