Gingerbread Hunter // Puny Snack
Creature — Giant // Instant — Adventure
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #21109
Gingerbread Hunter // Puny Snack enters as a 4/4 that immediately eats a creature with power 2 or less, then leaves behind a Food token when it dies — removal and sacrifice fodder stapled to a body. Five mana is the honest cost of that package, and in Commander it's a fair rate if your deck wants any of those three outputs.
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 |
In Commander, Gingerbread Hunter // Puny Snack slots cleanly into Food synergy builds, aristocrats decks that want incidental sacrifice fodder, and any list that values ETB removal on a creature. The power-2-or-less ceiling matters — it misses most late-game threats — but it cleanly answers mana dorks, utility creatures, and token commanders like Krenko. In competitive non-rotating formats like Modern and Legacy it won't see play; five mana for conditional removal on a vanilla body is too slow when cheaper interaction exists. Standard and Pioneer are where the card has the most relative value, punishing the smaller creatures common in those formats while feeding into Food-matters synergies that see more support in those card pools.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Gingerbread Hunter // Puny Snack sits firmly in bulk territory, and there's no pressure driving that price higher — it's a fun role-player, not a staple. Pick it up for a theme deck without hesitation; it will stay cheap.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.