Sourbread Auntie
Creature — Goblin Warrior
When this creature enters, you may blight 2. If you do, create two 1/1 black and red Goblin creature tokens. (To blight 2, put two -1/-1 counters on a creature you control.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #15871
Sourbread Auntie puts a Food token on the board the turn it arrives and keeps producing them whenever you gain life, turning passive life-gain into a repeatable resource engine. Grub, Storied Matriarch decks run it in 41% of lists because that Food loop directly fuels the sacrifice and power-matters mechanics the deck is built around.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Grub, Storied Matriarch
Grub, Storied Matriarch rewards you for sacrificing artifacts and for having high-power creatures, and Sourbread Auntie feeds both axes — every life-gain trigger generates a Food that can be cracked for value or pitched to a sac outlet, making the Auntie a self-sustaining piece of the engine rather than a one-shot contributor.
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 |
In Commander, Sourbread Auntie earns its slot in any deck where life-gain triggers are already firing — the token generation scales with the table and the Food type interacts with a wide range of artifact and sacrifice payoffs. In competitive 1v1 formats like Modern and Pioneer, a three-mana 3/3 that generates a single Food on entry is below the rate threshold to see serious play, and the life-gain trigger condition is too unreliable without dedicated support. Standard is the exception where it may find niche use in a dedicated Food or life-gain shell, but it's unlikely to be a pillar of any tier deck. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the bar is simply too high.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Sourbread Auntie is firmly bulk — an easy include that costs nothing to test. Bulk rares with narrow tribal or theme dependencies don't tend to climb unless a new commander pushes the archetype, so treat this as a cheap enabler rather than a spec.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Grub, Storied Matriarch
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.