Witch's Oven

Witch's Oven

{1}Artifact

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{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

What it does

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

Official rulings

  1. No player may take actions between the time you announce you're activating Witch's Oven's ability and the time you sacrifice a creature. Notably, they can't try to remove or shrink the creature you'd like to bake. (2019-10-04)
  2. Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards. (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. 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)

Printings & prices

Every set Witch's Oven 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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