Party Dude
Enchantment — Class
(Gain the next level as a sorcery to add its ability.)
When this Class enters, each player creates a Food token.
: Level 2
Whenever an artifact an opponent controls is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.
: Level 3
Whenever one or more of your opponents are attacked, up to one target attacking creature gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.68
- EDHREC rank
- #13365
Party Dude hands every opponent a Banana token on entry, which means you're feeding the table resources you need to exploit — the decks running it are built to punish that generosity harder than anyone else can benefit. At three mana for a 2/2, the stat line is irrelevant; the trigger is the whole card, and if your commander doesn't cash in on opponent-controlled tokens or Food-adjacent effects, Party Dude is just charity. Kibo, Uktabi Prince is the clearest home — outside of that shell, the card needs a very specific engine to justify the slot.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Kibo, Uktabi Prince
Kibo, Uktabi Prince turns every Banana token — including the ones Party Dude distributes to opponents — into damage and card advantage whenever an opponent sacrifices or eats one, so the 'gift' becomes a trigger farm. Party Dude's enters-the-battlefield effect accelerates that engine immediately and scales with the number of players at the table.
Vazi, Keen Negotiator
Vazi, Keen Negotiator wants tokens spread across the table to convert into political leverage and mana, and Party Dude delivers one to every opponent the moment it enters. That's an instant uptick in the counter or resource economy Vazi is trying to build before opponents can react.
Ygra, Eater of All
Ygra, Eater of All converts Food tokens into life-gain triggers and creatures into Food, so every Banana Party Dude hands out is a future life-gain event waiting to happen if opponents ever sacrifice it. The redundancy of token generation is what makes Party Dude worth a slot in that shell.
The Cabbage Merchant
The Cabbage Merchant cares about Food tokens entering play and rewards the controller for seeding the board with them, making Party Dude's mass distribution a clean source of enters-the-battlefield triggers. Spreading Bananas to opponents rather than keeping them isn't a downside here — it's extra fuel.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Party Dude is legal in every major Constructed format, but Constructed is not where it lives — a three-mana 2/2 that hands opponents resources is a non-starter in Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, where the card would need to win the game on the spot to justify the slot. Standard legality is similarly academic unless a dedicated Food or token-gift shell emerges in a given format window. Commander is the format Party Dude was designed for: four players means three Banana tokens on entry, and multiplayer politics smooths over the symmetry problem that would kill the card in heads-up play. Treat it as a Commander-only piece and evaluate it entirely on whether your commander punishes the tokens it hands out.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.68 bulk tier
At $0.68, Party Dude sits in bulk territory — low enough that the financial barrier to testing it is zero. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless a new commander breaks them wide open, so don't expect appreciation; buy it to play it, not to hold it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.