Dubious Delicacy
Artifact — Food
Flash
When this artifact enters, up to one target creature gets -3/-3 until end of turn.
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, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life., , Sacrifice this artifact: Target opponent loses 3 life.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16758
Dubious Delicacy gives you a Food token and a Clue token for two mana — immediate, tangible value split across two artifact types. The cost is real: it's a one-shot sorcery with no staying power, so it lives or dies by how well your deck exploits those token types.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dubious Delicacy is narrow enough that it sees virtually no play outside Commander, where artifact synergy and token-doubling effects make the two-for-one actually matter. In Commander, it slots into Food-matters builds around Gyome, Master Chef or Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, and into Clue-matters shells like Lonis, Cryptozoologist, where each token type feeds a separate engine. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — a sorcery-speed two-mana spell that makes two small artifacts is well below the efficiency bar; dedicated artifact or Food strategies have cleaner options. Legacy and Vintage have zero interest in it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Dubious Delicacy is firmly bulk — a throw-in, not a purchase. That price is stable by definition: there's no competitive demand to push it up, and it's widely available enough that it won't disappear.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.