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Hazel's Brewmaster

Creature — Squirrel Warlock

Menace
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, exile up to one target card from a graveyard and create a Food token.
Foods you control have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with this creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Bloomburrow Commander
Price
$1.76
EDHREC rank
#2354
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Hazel's Brewmaster card art
Hazel's Brewmaster puts a free Food token on the table every time you cast a creature, which in the right shell turns a single spell into a recursive engine of sacrifice fodder and life gain. The cost is real — it's a three-mana 2/2 with no immediate board impact — but Camellia, the Seedmiser and Hazel of the Rootbloom both treat that Food production as a trigger-generating engine worth every penny.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

80.7% of decks · synergy 0.70

Hazel of the Rootbloom converts every Food token Hazel's Brewmaster makes into card advantage and life, so casting any creature effectively reads 'draw a card' once both pieces are in play.

02
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

74.2% of decks · synergy 0.64

Camellia, the Seedmiser cares about tokens entering the battlefield, so Hazel's Brewmaster turns every creature cast into a two-for-one — a creature hitting play and a Food trigger firing simultaneously.

04
Tevesh Szat, Doom of FoolsThrasios, Triton Hero

Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero

41.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

In the Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools // Thrasios, Triton Hero shell, Hazel's Brewmaster functions as a sacrifice-fodder generator — the Food tokens feed Tevesh's sacrifice ability without burning real resources.

05
Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All

47.5% of decks · synergy 0.37

Ygra, Eater of All turns Food tokens into a stat engine, so each trigger from Hazel's Brewmaster is also a pump effect; creature-dense Ygra lists snowball fast with a Brewmaster on board.

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 by far the primary home for Hazel's Brewmaster — a 2/2 that generates one Food per creature cast only becomes meaningful at the volume of creatures a 100-card singleton deck can produce. Legacy and Vintage are both legal, but a three-mana 2/2 with no immediate impact on a faster axis is simply too slow for those formats, where the game is typically decided before the Brewmaster's triggers accumulate. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format worth mentioning, and Food-themed oathbreakers can make use of it, though the smaller deck size dulls the engine. Treat Hazel's Brewmaster as a Commander card first and only.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

20,368 decks
Camellia, the SeedmiserPeregrin TookHazel's BrewmasterGilded Goose

Camellia, the SeedmiserPeregrin TookHazel's BrewmasterGilded Goose

Infinite ETB; Infinite lifegain triggers; Infinite lifegain; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Infinite Food tokens; Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures

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Price Context

Current price

$1.76 cheap tier

At $1.76, Hazel's Brewmaster sits in the cheap tier — low enough to include without budget concern in any Food or token-value shell. Niche tribal-adjacent cards at this price tend to hold steady rather than climb, so buy it when you need it and don't expect meaningful movement.

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