Late to Dinner

Late to Dinner

{3}{W}Sorcery

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Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

What it does

Tagged as Recursion · Lifegain — the jobs the deck report counts it toward.

Official rulings

  1. If the target is illegal as the spell tries to resolve, perhaps because it has been removed from the graveyard, you will not create a Food token. (2021-06-18)
  2. You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability. (2024-11-08)
  3. Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type. (2024-11-08)
  4. Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards. (2024-11-08)

Printings & prices

Every set Late to Dinner has been printed in, with the art, the finishes and the market price of each — the headline price above is the cheapest of these.

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