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Witch's Oven

Artifact

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Create a Food token. If the sacrificed creature's toughness was 4 or greater, create two Food tokens instead. (They're artifacts with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

CMC
1
Mana cost
{1}
Color identity
C
Rarity
uncommon
Set
The List
Price
$3.35
EDHREC rank
#2904
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Witch's Oven card art
Witch's Oven is a one-mana sacrifice outlet that converts any creature into a Food token, and in the right shell that's a repeatable engine, not just a one-shot effect. Paired with Cauldron Familiar, it becomes a drain loop that dodges graveyard hate by self-recycling; Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar tutors it directly, making it one of the most reliable one-card searches in the format.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

02
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

65.6% of decks · synergy 0.60

Gyome, Master Chef generates Food tokens every turn, and Witch's Oven closes the loop by converting creatures back into Food, giving Gyome a free sacrifice outlet that also fuels his tap-down ability.

03
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

53.2% of decks · synergy 0.48

Witch's Oven sacrifices Camellia, the Seedmiser's Squirrel tokens to generate Food, turning the token flood into a resource engine while keeping the board from stalling out.

04
Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All

38.1% of decks · synergy 0.33

Ygra, Eater of All turns every Food sacrifice into life gain, so Witch's Oven's constant stream of Food tokens translates directly into a life total that spirals out of reach.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Witch's Oven is a role-player rather than a staple — it earns its slot only in decks that want a critical mass of Food synergy or sacrifice triggers, but in those decks it's close to mandatory. In Pioneer, it anchored one of the format's most oppressive midrange loops alongside Cauldron Familiar before the interaction drew serious metagame attention, and it still sees play in sacrifice-based shells. Modern and Legacy have access to more powerful one-mana sacrifice outlets, so Witch's Oven competes there on the basis of the Food token itself rather than raw efficiency. It's legal in Oathbreaker and Vintage but rarely relevant in either.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$3.35 cheap tier

At $3.35, Witch's Oven sits at the high end of budget for a common-rarity artifact, but its demand is real — the Cauldron Familiar loop drove that price and keeps it stable. It's an honest cost for a card that does specific, powerful work in the decks that want it.

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