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Gyome, Master Chef

Legendary Creature — Troll Warlock

Trample
At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn.
{1}, Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
mythic
Set
Commander 2021
Price
$22.28
EDHREC rank
#4803
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Gyome, Master Chef card art
Gyome, Master Chef generates a Food token for every nontoken creature you play and cashes them in to tap or untap any target — making it one of the most flexible tap-effect engines in black-green at just three mana. The interaction with Apex Altisaur is the headline: sac a Food to untap it mid-combat and trigger its fight ability again, and decks built around Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard lean on exactly this kind of pay-one, get-a-tap-effect rhythm.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Merry, Warden of IsengardPippin, Warden of Isengard

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

39.5% of decks · synergy 0.36

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard triggers off Food sacrifices, so every creature Gyome, Master Chef converts into a token becomes a direct source of life gain and triggers — the two cards are essentially co-pilots of the same engine.

02
Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All

37.2% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ygra, Eater of All turns every Food sacrifice into a life payment for spells and effects, and Gyome, Master Chef floods the battlefield with cheap sacrifice fodder the moment creatures hit play.

03
Frodo, Adventurous HobbitSam, Loyal Attendant

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

24.7% of decks · synergy 0.21

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant cares about Food as a resource and life as a buffer, and Gyome, Master Chef supplies both passively every time the deck deploys a creature.

04
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

20.7% of decks · synergy 0.17

Camellia, the Seedmiser triggers on Halfling creature spells, and Gyome, Master Chef is itself a Halfling that rewards playing those same creatures with a Food per cast — the two commanders want the exact same pile of cards.

05
Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant

16.3% of decks · synergy 0.12

Shelob, Child of Ungoliant creates Spider tokens when creatures die, and Gyome, Master Chef's tap-untap ability gives those tokens immediate utility as a free combat trick or pseudo-vigilance engine.

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

Gyome, Master Chef is Commander's card front to back — a three-mana legendary with a symmetry-breaking tap ability that only reveals its power across a long game with multiple creatures entering. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but wholly irrelevant; neither format has any interest in a slow Food engine attached to a 0/3. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer pacing and occasionally hosts Food-adjacent builds, where Gyome can pull some weight as a signature spell enabler, though its impact is narrower with smaller starting life totals. Everywhere else it's not legal, and honestly, it wouldn't matter — this card was designed for 100-card singleton and plays exactly like it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If Gyome, Master Chef is out of reach, Tireless Provisioner covers the token-per-land-drop angle and is under $3, though it loses the tap-untap utility entirely and demands a landfall shell to fire. Springheart Nantuko and similar token doublers can approximate the Food flood in creature-heavy decks, but nothing in the budget tier replicates the on-demand tap or untap — that half of Gyome is genuinely unique and you're giving it up entirely when you substitute.

Price Context

Current price

$22.28 premium tier

At $22.28, Gyome, Master Chef sits in premium singleton territory — justified by its unique tap-untap text, which has no functional reprint. It's a set-it-and-forget-it purchase for Food or Halfling builds, but casual players running it as a value piece in generic goodstuff should weigh whether the $22 is doing $22 of work in their specific 99.

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