Pizza Face, Gastromancer
Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Mutant
When Pizza Face enters, create a Food token.
Disappear — At the beginning of your end step, if a permanent left the battlefield under your control this turn, put three +1/+1 counters on up to one other target artifact or creature. If it isn't a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Mutant creature in addition to its other types.
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, Sacrifice Pizza Face: You gain 15 life.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #17320
Pizza Face, Gastromancer puts a repeatable food-generation engine on the board — every spell you cast can feed your whole table, and that political currency translates directly into protection and card advantage. The cost is that you're spending a commander slot or a deck slot on a card whose ceiling lives almost entirely inside food-synergy shells; outside of Gyome, Master Chef and similar kitchens, it's a novelty.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gyome, Master Chef
Gyome, Master Chef already turns every nontoken creature into a food token, so Pizza Face, Gastromancer stacks a second production layer that scales with spell count rather than creature count — together they flood the board with food fast enough to fuel lifegain payoffs, sacrifice outlets, and the political gifting that makes Gyome decks tick.
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 |
Pizza Face, Gastromancer is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer table is where giving opponents food tokens reads as politics rather than charity, and where a five-mana 4/4 with a conditional upside needs the slower clock to matter. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a five-mana creature that hands resources to the opponent is unplayable on rate alone. Legacy and Vintage don't change that math; the card is legal but irrelevant. Standard is the one format where food synergies occasionally coalesce around a supported theme, so watch for a brief window of relevance if Wizards revisits the mechanic — otherwise Pizza Face, Gastromancer stays parked in EDH.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Pizza Face, Gastromancer is deep bulk — buy a copy without thinking twice if you're building Gyome, Master Chef or any food-matters shell. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb unless the mechanic gets a Standard push, so don't hold extras expecting a spike.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.