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The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen · {2}{G} · Green commander

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token. Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.
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What The Cabbage Merchant actually does

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What a The Cabbage Merchant deck wants

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Best cards for The Cabbage Merchant

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Gilded Goose1 mana
  2. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  3. Tireless Provisioner3 mana
  4. Peregrin Took3 mana
  5. Meriadoc Brandybuck2 mana
  6. Spider-Ham, Peter Porker2 mana
  7. Tough Cookie2 mana
  8. Bakersbane Duo2 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Gingerbrute1 mana
  2. Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender2 mana
  3. Tough Cookie2 mana
  4. Vegetation Abomination3 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Mosswort Bridge0 mana
  2. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  3. Heroic Intervention2 mana
  4. Sylvan Safekeeper1 mana
  5. Tamiyo's Safekeeping1 mana
  6. Tyvar's Stand1 mana
  7. Veil of Summer1 mana
  8. Garruk's Uprising3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Green Slime3 mana
  2. Kozilek, the Great Distortion10 mana
  3. Not of This World7 mana
  4. Brown Ouphe1 mana
  5. Rust1 mana
  6. Bind2 mana
  7. Null Brooch4 mana
  8. Jester's Scepter3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Beast Within3 mana
  2. Nature's Claim1 mana
  3. Emerald Charm1 mana
  4. Shrink1 mana
  5. Naturalize2 mana
  6. Origin of Metalbending2 mana
  7. Natural State1 mana
  8. Umezawa's Jitte2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Simplify1 mana
  2. Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
  3. Coercive Portal4 mana
  4. Needle Storm3 mana
  5. Whirlwind4 mana
  6. Hurricane1 mana
  7. Worldslayer5 mana
  8. Corrosive Gale1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  4. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  5. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  6. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  7. Chord of Calling3 mana
  8. Eldritch Evolution3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  3. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  4. The One Ring4 mana
  5. Pip-Boy 30001 mana
  6. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  7. Elemental Bond3 mana
  8. Selvala, Heart of the Wilds3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  2. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  3. Cryptothrall4 mana
  4. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  5. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  6. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  7. Asceticism5 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

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