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Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Legendary Artifact Creature — Food Knight

Syr Ginger has trample, hexproof, and haste as long as an opponent controls a planeswalker.
Whenever another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put a +1/+1 counter on Syr Ginger and scry 1.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice Syr Ginger: You gain life equal to its power.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{2}
Color identity
C
Rarity
rare
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
Price
$1.09
EDHREC rank
#2812
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Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender card art
Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender hits the board as a colorless-matters threat that grows on its own and protects itself from the permanents most decks lean on hardest. The cost is that it needs a critical mass of Food or artifact token production — without something like Animation Module or a commander like The Cabbage Merchant feeding the engine, it's just a vanilla beater.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

59.7% of decks · synergy 0.59

The Cabbage Merchant is the natural home — it generates Food tokens as a core function, which means Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender enters a deck already built around the exact resource it wants to consume and grow from.

02
Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor

46.6% of decks · synergy 0.45

Brenard, Ginger Sculptor creates Gingerbread creature tokens, and Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender counts every one of those as fuel, turning Brenard's board-building into a consistent +1/+1 counter engine on a protected attacker.

03
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

42.3% of decks · synergy 0.40

Gyome, Master Chef produces Food every turn as creatures enter, so Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender scales naturally alongside any creature-heavy gameplan Gyome runs without asking for dedicated support.

04
Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

40.8% of decks · synergy 0.40

Samwise Gamgee triggers Food creation off historic permanents entering the battlefield, giving Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender a steady stream of counters whenever the deck does what it already wants to do.

05
Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

38.8% of decks · synergy 0.37

Ragost, Deft Gastronaut rewards Food sacrifice synergies broadly, and Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender slots in as a payoff that compounds those sacrifices into a growing, hexproof-adjacent threat protected from the most common interaction in the format.

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 where Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender actually functions — the Food and artifact-token ecosystems that feed it are deep in the format, and hexproof from nonland permanents is a meaningful defensive keyword against the enchantment-based removal and planeswalker-generated effects that show up constantly at multiplayer tables. In Constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's legal but too slow and too dependent on a supporting cast to compete; the payoff doesn't justify the setup cost when opponents are operating on a faster clock. Standard legality is a footnote unless a dedicated Food shell exists in the current environment — check the metagame before sleeving it up there. Legacy and Vintage have the card legal but zero incentive to run it when more powerful options exist at every point on the curve.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.09 cheap tier

At $1.09, Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender is firmly budget — the kind of card you throw in without thinking twice if it fits the deck. Niche appeal in a handful of Food-focused commanders keeps the floor stable, but don't expect the price to move unless a new Food commander breaks out and drives demand.

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