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Gingerbrute

Artifact Creature — Food Golem

Haste (This creature can attack and {T} as soon as it comes under your control.)
{1}: This creature can't be blocked this turn except by creatures with haste.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
common
Set
Jumpstart
Price
$0.25
EDHREC rank
#1607
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Gingerbrute card art
Gingerbrute is a one-mana artifact creature that hits players who can't block it with a Food token creature, and that evasion plus food synergy punches well above its cost. It's a staple in Winota, Joiner of Forces decks as a cheap non-Human attacker, and Samwise Gamgee turns every Food it generates into a recursive engine.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Winota, Joiner of Forces

Winota, Joiner of Forces

65.8% of decks · synergy 0.62

Gingerbrute is one of the most common non-Human attackers in Winota, Joiner of Forces decks precisely because it costs one mana and attacks the turn it enters — triggering Winota immediately and flooding the board with Human creatures off the top.

02
Goro-Goro and Satoru

Goro-Goro and Satoru

62.1% of decks · synergy 0.61

Goro-Goro and Satoru reward attacking with creatures that have haste or evasion, and Gingerbrute provides both by paying one mana to gain haste — making it a reliable first-strike attacker that consistently triggers the commander's token generation.

03
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

63.4% of decks · synergy 0.55

Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender grows whenever a Food is sacrificed, and Gingerbrute generates a Food on attack while also being an artifact creature that contributes to the same tribal synergies — it's one of the deck's most efficient double-dippers.

05
Gonti, Night Minister

Gonti, Night Minister

44.1% of decks · synergy 0.42

Gonti, Night Minister cares about spending life and generating value from opponent resources, and Gingerbrute's Food production provides a low-cost life buffer while its artifact creature status feeds sacrifice or artifact-count payoffs in that shell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Gingerbrute earns its slot almost entirely on synergy — it's not a power card, it's a role-player in Food, artifact, or non-Human-attacker strategies where one mana for a guaranteed evasive attacker is the exact ask. In Pauper and Pioneer aggro, Gingerbrute has seen fringe play as a one-drop that dodges ground stalls and incidentally gains life, though it rarely makes main decks outside dedicated Food shells. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern don't want it — the bar for one-drops is too high, and Gingerbrute's ceiling is too low to compete with the format's threats. Standard and Pioneer Food synergy decks are the closest thing to a competitive home, and even there it's a supporting piece rather than a headliner.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.25 bulk tier

At $0.25, Gingerbrute is deep bulk — widely available and unlikely to drop further given how often it's reprinted and how broadly legal it is. Picking up copies costs almost nothing, and in synergy decks that want it, there's no cheaper alternative that does the same job.

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