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Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Legendary Creature — Lobster Citizen

Artifacts you control are Foods in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life."
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice a Food: Ragost deals 3 damage to each opponent.
At the beginning of each end step, if you gained life this turn, untap Ragost.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{R}{W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
rare
Set
Edge of Eternities Promos
Price
$0.55
EDHREC rank
#5824
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Ragost, Deft Gastronaut card art
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut turns every food token into a pseudo-draw engine, making token-dense food builds suddenly hungry for card advantage. The cost is real — you need a steady food supply to see consistent value — but in Rocco, Street Chef shells generating multiple foods per turn, Ragost rewards you with a Nuka-Cola Vending Machine and a full grip every few turns.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Rocco, Street Chef

Rocco, Street Chef

32.3% of decks · synergy 0.31

Rocco, Street Chef generates food on every creature cast, meaning Ragost, Deft Gastronaut hits the table and immediately starts converting that token flood into cards — the two together form a self-sustaining engine where Rocco makes the fuel and Ragost cashes it in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the clear home for Ragost, Deft Gastronaut — the 99-card singleton format gives it enough food-generating support (Rocco, Street Chef, artifact synergies, Universes Beyond sets) to fire consistently, and a 100-life game gives the incremental card advantage time to compound. In constructed formats like Standard, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but competes against tighter curves and faster clocks, where trading a food token for a card is simply too slow to matter. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it. Oathbreaker works on the same logic as Commander: if your planeswalker generates food or enables it, Ragost becomes a reasonable value piece in the 58.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.55 bulk tier

At $0.55, Ragost, Deft Gastronaut sits firmly in bulk territory, which is fair for a card whose ceiling is locked to a specific food-token archetype. It holds that price floor comfortably as long as food synergies stay in print, but don't expect movement — it's an easy include, not a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.