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Momo, Playful Pet

Momo, Playful Pet

Legendary Creature — Lemur Bat Ally

Momo wants a deck that saves up energy and spends it on stronger effects. It also works in a deck built around Allies, Bats or Food Tokens.

  • Mana costwhite
  • White ()
  • Power / toughness1 / 1
  • RarityUncommon

Flying, vigilance

When Momo leaves the battlefield, choose one —

• Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic, tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

• Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control.

• Scry 2.

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Cards That Fit Momo, Playful Pet

Picked for what they do in Momo's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit Momo's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for Momo, Playful Pet

explain how Momo works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Bosco, Just a Bear's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Bosco, Just a Bear's ability.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

4 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with Momo, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryWPlayers write colors as letters: W for white.EnergyEnergy decks collect energy counters, a resource you save up across turns, then spend them on stronger effects. Energy belongs to you, not to any card, so losing your cards does not take it away.Open the Energy page+1/+1 CountersPuts +1/+1 counters on creatures, permanently raising their power and toughness. Unlike a temporary boost that wears off at end of turn, these markers stay put and stack up over a long game. Hardened Scales, The Great HengeOpen the +1/+1 Counters pageToken MakerCreates one or more tokens. Different cards make very different ones: creatures Grave Titan, Treasures Smothering Tithe, Clues Tireless Tracker or Food Gilded Goose. This is one of our largest tags, so pair it with an archetype or theme when you are hunting a specific kind.Open the Token Maker pageEvasionAn ability that makes a creature hard to block, so its attacks reach the player. Flying, menace, landwalk and plain 'can't be blocked' are the common kinds.Open the Evasion pageFood TokensFood tokens are artifacts you can pay 2 mana, tap and sacrifice to gain 3 life, and many Food cards also reward you for sacrificing them.Open the Food Tokens pageCard SelectionImproves what you draw rather than how much: you look at the top few cards of your library and decide what stays on top. Ponder lets you rearrange the top three, Serum Visions lets you scry, and Consider lets you surveil. It makes your draws more reliable without giving you extra cards.Open the Card Selection page