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Astrid Peth

Legendary Creature — Human

Whenever Astrid Peth enters or attacks, create a Food token.
Brand-new Sky — Whenever you sacrifice a Clue or Food, Astrid Peth explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
rare
Set
Doctor Who
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#5375
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Astrid Peth card art
Astrid Peth turns every nontoken historic permanent entering the battlefield into a free Food token, making her a relentless value engine in any shell built around artifacts, Sagas, or legendary creatures. The closest competition at her cost comes from dedicated payoffs like Samwise Gamgee and Ragost, Deft Gastronaut, but Astrid generates the resource rather than consuming it — that distinction matters.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

53.4% of decks · synergy 0.51

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut runs Astrid Peth because every Food token she generates feeds directly into Ragost's sacrifice-for-card-draw engine, turning a stream of historic permanents into a self-sustaining draw loop.

02
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

48.7% of decks · synergy 0.48

Samwise Gamgee and Astrid Peth form one of the tightest two-card engines in the Food space — Sam triggers off the Foods Astrid produces, letting every historic permanent that enters create both a token and a Samwise trigger.

03
Merry, Warden of IsengardPippin, Warden of Isengard

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard

22.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard pulls in Astrid Peth as a Food generator that keeps the Hobbit tribe stocked with life-gain triggers and sacrifice fodder throughout a long game.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Astrid Peth does her best work — the format's legendary-dense, artifact-heavy decklists give her a steady stream of historic triggers, and the multiplayer pace means the Food accumulates into real advantage before opponents can answer her. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes but offer her no structural support; neither format is built around the Food or historic synergy axes she demands, so she won't see competitive play there. Oathbreaker is theoretically viable but shares Commander's logic at a smaller scale — she functions, just with fewer turns to compound the value.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

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Current pricing data for Astrid Peth isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the live number. Given her high inclusion rate in Ragost and Samwise lists, demand is real — if you're building either deck, pick her up before the price firms up around the archetype's popularity.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.