Provisions Merchant
Creature — Beast Peasant
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "
, 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Whenever this creature attacks, you may sacrifice a Food. If you do, attacking creatures get +1/+1 and gain trample until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Wilds of Eldraine
- Price
- $0.31
- EDHREC rank
- #12143
Provisions Merchant enters the battlefield and immediately starts converting Food tokens into life, turning incidental artifact generation into a meaningful cushion against aggression. The Cabbage Merchant is its natural home, but any green-white shell that churns out Food gets real mileage from a two-mana body that never stops paying dividends.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
The Cabbage Merchant
The Cabbage Merchant generates Food on attack, and Provisions Merchant converts every one of those tokens into life without spending a card — it's the reason the card shows up in more than a third of Cabbage Merchant lists.
The Goose Mother
The Goose Mother produces Food on entry and compounds it over time, and Provisions Merchant turns that accumulating stock into a life total wide enough to survive long enough for the Goose engine to close the game.
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 |
Provisions Merchant is legal in every major constructed format, but it has no real presence outside Commander — Food synergies aren't a competitive axis in Modern, Pioneer, or Legacy, where two mana for a 1/3 and some incidental life gain doesn't clear the bar. In Commander, it's a role player, not a staple: it belongs in dedicated Food-token decks where the incremental life gain compounds across a long game and the body occasionally blocks. Outside those shells, it's too narrow to justify the slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.31 bulk tier
At $0.31, Provisions Merchant is firmly bulk — pick it up as a one-of for any Food commander without a second thought. Bulk commons and uncommons in narrow synergy roles rarely climb, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
- The Cabbage Merchant
- The Goose Mother
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.