Unwilling Ingredient
Creature — Frog
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
, Exile this card from your graveyard: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #19201
Unwilling Ingredient is a one-mana 1/1 that replaces itself with a card draw when it dies and leaves behind a Food token — but that's a lot of words for a creature that does very little unless you're engineering its death repeatedly. It earns a slot only in dedicated sacrifice or Food-synergy shells; everywhere else it's filler.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Unwilling Ingredient is niche by design — it pays off in Gyome, Master Chef builds, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King shells hungry for cheap sacrifice fodder, or any deck that weaponizes Food tokens via Asmor or Lonis lines. In Pauper, the combination of a free card draw on death and a persistent artifact token is more interesting, where incremental value at common is actually competitive currency. Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage have no interest — Unwilling Ingredient's ceiling is simply too low for those card pools. It's a build-around piece, not a general-purpose card.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Unwilling Ingredient is deep bulk — you'll find it in a commons box before you bother ordering it. That price is stable by virtue of being a floor, not momentum.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.