Insatiable Appetite
Instant
You may sacrifice a Food. If you do, target creature gets +5/+5 until end of turn. Otherwise, that creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #18127
Insatiable Appetite pumps a creature by +2/+2 until end of turn and gives it trample, all for two mana at instant speed — straightforward, clean combat trick. It's a fine role-player in formats where one-shot kills through blockers matter, and a bulk filler anywhere else.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Insatiable Appetite is a fringe inclusion — trample-granting pump is rarely worth a card slot unless your deck is built around one large attacker that needs to push through chump blockers. Pauper is the format where it has the most legitimate case, since combat tricks have real teeth in a removal-light, creature-heavy environment and the common card pool limits competition for the slot. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is legal but outclassed by nearly every alternative; there is no competitive context where Insatiable Appetite is the right call over cantripping or permanent pump options.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Insatiable Appetite sits firmly in bulk territory — the kind of card you find in a draft chaff pile rather than buy deliberately. The price is stable for exactly that reason: low demand keeps it flat, and no breakout deck is coming to change that.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.