Instant Ramen
Artifact — Food
Flash
When this artifact enters, draw a card.
, 
, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #6040
Instant Ramen hits the board and immediately feeds the food-synergy engines that commanders like Ragost, Deft Gastronaut are built around, delivering value the turn it resolves. At a low mana cost, the entry fee is negligible for what it enables.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut is the natural home — Instant Ramen plugs directly into the food-generation engine Ragost rewards, and the 31% inclusion rate across over 15,000 decks confirms it's not a fringe include.
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender grows off food tokens, so Instant Ramen is a cheap way to fuel that stat-climb and keep the artifact count ticking upward.
The Cabbage Merchant
The Cabbage Merchant's food-matters gameplan makes Instant Ramen a reliable piece of the synergy web, contributing to the token count the deck needs to function.
Noctis, Prince of Lucis
Noctis, Prince of Lucis has enough artifact and value-token interaction that Instant Ramen earns its slot as low-cost fuel for the broader engine.
Gandalf the White
Gandalf the White can flash Instant Ramen back at instant speed, turning a single copy into repeatable food generation whenever Gandalf is on board.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Instant Ramen is legal across every major format, but Commander is where it actually sees play — singleton and a slower game pace give food synergies the time to compound. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it doesn't clear the bar; there are tighter, more direct payoffs for the same slot. Pauper is the one non-Commander environment worth watching if dedicated food strategies ever reach critical mass there. Everywhere else, Instant Ramen is background noise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Instant Ramen sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking it up for essentially nothing. Bulk food-synergy pieces don't tend to spike unless a commander breaks the archetype wide open, so treat it as a cheap include rather than a hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.