MTG Salvation

First source

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gl7wuSMiVA



Second source

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yAx83hiIc3I

Witch's Oven + Cauldron Familiar is a pretty disgusting 2 card combo in draft, both 1-drops with no further mana investment that provides you an optional instant speed ground blocker & drain 1 per turn. Your opponent could have a 10/10 beanstalk giant, only to be losing to cat pies.

Doubt that will take over standard, but I'd keep a suspicious eye on food.dec emulating aristocrats

i'll reserve real judgement for after the release of the rest of the set, but for now food anything is underwhelming and i suspect like many mechanics in this vein before them they wont' be developed and explored until later sets

Why would you sacrifice a food just to bring back that cat? I mean, yeah, if you've got nothing better to do, I guess it's all right but it doesn't seem like a particularly good payoff.

Also, what in the world is that thing in Insatiable Appetite? Looks like Manbat Jr.

It's mild payoff on top of the already mild payoff food gave you. If you go all in, you might be able to get a REALLY mild payoff. How can food be both flavorful and bland? Here's how!

I do dig the Nils Hamm art on Insatiable appetite though.

I'm not in love with the idea of Black and Green caring about Food, which, bizarrely, is an artifact of all things. It makes sense flavorwise, because one of the intersections of Black and Green is definitely parasitism, but it's just kind of random and slapdash, to my mind.

I think what will make or break food is if we get more Trail of Crumbs cards that like you sacrificing food without needing you to sacrifice them and the pay off for doing so.

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I'm not in love with the idea of Black and Green caring about Food, which, bizarrely, is an artifact of all things. It makes sense flavorwise, because one of the intersections of Black and Green is definitely parasitism, but it's just kind of random and slapdash, to my mind.

Artifacts just mean anything that's an object. That's it. Even natural objects can be an artifact, within the game itself. Mark Rosewater has even explained this verbatim, explictly stating that, "Because we don’t have a Natural card type. Artifact, the card type, is broader than the normal definition. Let’s say we have a magical rock. What card type would it be? It would be an artifact. Natural items can be Magic: The Gathering card type “artifact”."

In fact, the most well-known and expensive artifact in the entire game, the Black Lotus, is a flower that actually grows all over the Magic multiverse. Just grows out in nature, in certain places. It's not an object of artifice, it's just a very, very, very powerfully-infused with mana flower that grows from the ground.

Basically, they didn't use the term "object" as a card type when the game began, and they were stuck with it after many years of it being "artifact".

So Clue tokens (which could be ANY clue, not some artificial object; a Clue token could represent a patch of fur stuck on a tree, for example), and Food tokens, as well as cards like Black Lotus and Golden Egg, are artifacts within the context of Magic, because the term "artifact" in magic does NOT mean an object of artifice. It means any object at all.

The Cauldron Familiar can return from graveyard to battlefield at instant speed, providing you have a food token to sacrifice--that has to have uses from time to time.

Is it walking on the edge of the Black Cauldron?

Well looks like Witch's Oven is the mythic uncommon of the set for draft.

Very upset that the cat is not common for Pauper... Very upset indeed.

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i'll reserve real judgement for after the release of the rest of the set, but for now food anything is underwhelming and i suspect like many mechanics in this vein before them they wont' be developed and explored until later sets

Gingerbrute being a food gives me a bit of hope. One more food creature and that's 8 copies right there.

So I've thought of a really janky five card combo. Cauldron Familiar, Dross Scorpion, Chief of the Foundry, Witch's Oven, March of the Machines. You sacrifice the cat to the oven then your food which is now a creature gets sacrificed to bring back the cat and the scorpion will untap the oven when it sees the food die. The Chief of the Foundry is there because if I understand correctly the food token would die as a 0/0 before you can put the sac trigger on the stack. It's janky, but I think it works as a joke combo.

Couldron Familiar + Witches Oven provides two sacrifice events for Korvold and Mayhem Devil.

Priest of Forgotten Gods is also happy about the cat for having something to sacrifice.
https://scryfall.com/@ChristianKl/decks/ea46ebff-f9d9-4c60-baf1-20e22e17a662

Don't forget that the cat triggers Ayara along with Syr Konrad, throw in green and start scrying to hit your combo pieces while you lightning helix your opponent and block their creatures for every Witch's Oven you draw.

Hey guys did you hear? Eldraine had four new food cards.

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Hey guys did you hear? Eldraine had four new food cards.

This gave me a good laugh.


But why is it that someone always comes in and necros the weirdest things at the worst time?

The initial culprit appears to be an auto generated computer response that is incomprehensible and I believe links to a scam/virus website in the same vein as the occasional post in these forums trying to advertise "growth" pills.

It IS a little amusing to see how many people underestimated that darn cat.

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It IS a little amusing to see how many people underestimated that darn cat.

You say that, and yet the very first reply called out the exact combo that would eventually get it banned:

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Witch's Oven + Cauldron Familiar is a pretty disgusting 2 card combo in draft, both 1-drops with no further mana investment that provides you an optional instant speed ground blocker & drain 1 per turn. Your opponent could have a 10/10 beanstalk giant, only to be losing to cat pies.

Doubt that will take over standard, but I'd keep a suspicious eye on food.dec emulating aristocrats