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The Underworld Cookbook

Artifact — Book

{T}, Discard a card: Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
{4}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Modern Horizons 2
Price
$0.37
EDHREC rank
#4400
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The Underworld Cookbook card art
The Underworld Cookbook turns a discard outlet into a food factory, and its self-recurring loop with Ovalchase Daredevil means the engine never actually costs you cards. Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar unlocks it fully — the Cookbook is the reason that commander is castable at all, since discarding a food card is the precise trigger she demands.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

98.9% of decks · synergy 0.97

The Underworld Cookbook is effectively the engine that makes Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar work — discarding a food to the Cookbook is exactly the discard trigger required to cast her for free, making this a near-universal inclusion at 98.9% of builds.

02
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

28.7% of decks · synergy 0.27

The Underworld Cookbook feeds Hashaton, Scarab's Fist's appetite for sacrifice fodder and graveyard activity, providing a repeatable stream of food tokens that double as artifact sacrifice targets to trigger Hashaton's combat bonuses.

03
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

25.5% of decks · synergy 0.25

Gyome, Master Chef already wants a steady supply of food tokens, and The Underworld Cookbook supplements his production while giving the deck a discard outlet to fill the graveyard for any recursion lines the build runs.

04
Greasefang, Okiba Boss

Greasefang, Okiba Boss

22.0% of decks · synergy 0.22

The Underworld Cookbook is a one-mana discard outlet that pitches vehicles directly into the graveyard for Greasefang, Okiba Boss to reanimate on the following turn, making it one of the cleanest enablers in the deck.

05
Golbez, Crystal Collector

Golbez, Crystal Collector

16.5% of decks · synergy 0.16

Golbez, Crystal Collector values artifacts that generate tokens and enable sacrifice loops, and The Underworld Cookbook fills both roles cheaply — food tokens feed his shadow creature synergies while the discard keeps the graveyard stocked.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Commander is where The Underworld Cookbook does its best work, almost entirely because of Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar's existence — outside that specific pairing, it's a role-player in graveyard and food decks rather than a headliner. In Legacy and Vintage, it sees fringe play in loam-adjacent or food-combo shells, but it's not a format staple in either. Modern is where it picks up a bit more traction, slotting into Hollow One and Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar strategies that prize cheap, repeatable discard. Pioneer and Standard can't run it, and Pauper's restriction cuts it out there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.37 bulk tier

At $0.37, The Underworld Cookbook is bulk — you can pick up copies without thinking about it. Given that it's a near-universal auto-include in one of Commander's more popular archetype decks, that price is unlikely to climb unless the Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar archetype sees a major surge in adoption.

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