Is Rapacious Guest good in Commander?

Rapacious Guest in Commander — Combos, Decks & Price

Rapacious Guest enters, drains each opponent for the number of Foods you control, then makes a Food — so the trigger and the payoff compound on the same turn. At three mana in black-green, it fits cleanly into any Food shell, and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant decks run it at nearly 79% inclusion for exactly that reason.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

78.9% of decks · synergy 0.69

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant is the definitive Food commander, and Rapacious Guest slots in as a drain payoff that also adds to the Food count — every new Food you make after this is another tick toward a lethal life-loss burst.

02

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

61.5% of decks · synergy 0.61

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar runs a Food-heavy sacrifice loop, and Rapacious Guest is both a drain trigger and a fresh Food to feed that engine on the same cast.

03

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard

66.5% of decks · synergy 0.57

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard rewards wide Food accumulation with anthem effects, and Rapacious Guest punishes opponents for every token already on the battlefield the moment it enters.

04

Gyome, Master Chef

57.2% of decks · synergy 0.53

Gyome, Master Chef generates a Food per creature you cast, so the board fills up fast — Rapacious Guest turns that stockpile into a drain shot the turn it lands.

05

Ygra, Eater of All

46.0% of decks · synergy 0.42

Ygra, Eater of All converts Food sacrifices into life gain, and Rapacious Guest adds a drain layer on top so the same Food tokens that pad your total are also draining the table.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

Format	Verdict
commander	legal
legacy	legal
modern	not legal
pioneer	not legal
standard	not legal
vintage	legal
pauper	not legal
oathbreaker	legal

Commander is where Rapacious Guest lives — three opponents means the drain trigger hits for triple the value, and Food synergies have enough density in the format to build around consistently. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but has no competitive home; Food is not a supported engine in those formats and the card's ceiling is just a three-mana 2/2 with a marginal ETB in that context. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer math and the same Food-commander options, so it's a fine inclusion there if your planeswalker is in the space.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$3.11 cheap tier

At $3.11, Rapacious Guest sits at the high end of budget-staple territory — still cheap, but priced above bulk because of heavy demand from Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant decks. It's a near-auto-include in any Food shell, so that demand is unlikely to push the price down.