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Ygra, Eater of All

Legendary Creature — Elemental Cat

Ward—Sacrifice a Food.
Other creatures are Food artifacts in addition to their other types and have "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this permanent: You gain 3 life."
Whenever a Food is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, put two +1/+1 counters on Ygra.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{B}{G}
Color identity
BG
Rarity
mythic
Set
Bloomburrow
Price
$11.33
EDHREC rank
#2642
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Ygra, Eater of All card art
Ygra, Eater of All turns every Food token into a gain-life trigger and every life-gain effect into a potential board presence, making it the connective tissue that Food-token engines like Experimental Confectioner have been waiting for. The cost is a five-mana legendary that does nothing without support — but in a deck built around Camellia, the Seedmiser or any Food-dense shell, it pays for itself immediately.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Camellia, the Seedmiser

Camellia, the Seedmiser

61.9% of decks · synergy 0.57

Camellia, the Seedmiser draws a card every time you create a Food token, and Ygra, Eater of All converts each of those same tokens into life-gain triggers — the two commanders stack into a self-sustaining engine where Food creation fuels both card advantage and board presence.

02
Gyome, Master Chef

Gyome, Master Chef

51.4% of decks · synergy 0.46

Gyome, Master Chef generates a Food token for each creature that enters under your control, giving Ygra, Eater of All a constant stream of triggers without any extra setup.

03
Merry, Warden of IsengardPippin, Warden of Isengard

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard

31.3% of decks · synergy 0.28

Merry, Warden of Isengard // Pippin, Warden of Isengard floods the board with Food tokens as a natural byproduct of its game plan, which means Ygra, Eater of All converts that background noise into meaningful life-gain and win-condition pressure.

04
Hazel of the Rootbloom

Hazel of the Rootbloom

29.8% of decks · synergy 0.25

Hazel of the Rootbloom copies Food token creation, effectively doubling every trigger that Ygra, Eater of All would see and accelerating the life-gain engine faster than either card manages alone.

05
Frodo, Adventurous HobbitSam, Loyal Attendant

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant

23.0% of decks · synergy 0.19

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant cares about life-gain and incremental advantage, making Ygra, Eater of All a natural inclusion that converts Sam's Food generation into the life-gain triggers Frodo wants to see.

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 Ygra, Eater of All genuinely belongs — the format's longer games give the engine time to pay off, and the density of Food-synergy commanders makes it easy to build around. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, it's a five-mana do-nothing-alone legendary, which is a hard sell when those formats punish slow setups. Legacy and Vintage could theoretically support it in fringe Food builds, but the bar for a five-drop is steep and the payoff isn't close to breaking through. Standard and Oathbreaker are the only non-Commander 60-card contexts where the card sees any real daylight, and even there it's a build-around rather than a staple.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

13,810 decks
Ygra, Eater of AllCamellia, the SeedmiserAshnod's Altar

Ygra, Eater of AllCamellia, the SeedmiserAshnod's Altar

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature; Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures

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9,293 decks
Ygra, Eater of AllCamellia, the SeedmiserViscera Seer

Ygra, Eater of AllCamellia, the SeedmiserViscera Seer

Infinite LTB; Infinite ETB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite death triggers; Infinite scry 1; Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature

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Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

No card fully replaces Ygra, Eater of All, but Linden, the Steadfast Queen offers a cheaper life-gain-on-white-creature trigger and runs under two dollars in most Food-adjacent white shells. The trade-off is obvious: Linden generates no Food herself and cares nothing about tokens, so you lose the combo potential and keep only the incidental life-gain.

Price Context

Current price

$11.33 mid tier

At $11.33, Ygra, Eater of All sits in the mid tier — expensive enough to feel like a deliberate include, cheap enough that Food-deck pilots will just buy it. Demand is narrow but loyal, so the price is unlikely to spike without a reprint and equally unlikely to crater as long as Food remains a supported archetype.

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