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The Cabbage Merchant

The Cabbage Merchant

Legendary Creature — Human Citizen

The Cabbage Merchant wants a deck that makes an army of small creatures and attacks with all of them. It also works in a deck built around Citizens / Peasants, Food Tokens or Humans.

  • Mana cost2 genericgreen
  • Green ()
  • Power / toughness2 / 2
  • RarityRare

Whenever an opponent casts a noncreature spell, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "2 generic, tap, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

Whenever a creature deals combat damage to you, sacrifice a Food token.

Tap two untapped Foods you control: Add one mana of any color.

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Archetypes

Cards That Fit The Cabbage Merchant

Picked for what they do in The Cabbage Merchant's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit The Cabbage Merchant'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 The Cabbage Merchant

explain how The Cabbage Merchant 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

Food sacrificed due to The Cabbage Merchant's second triggered ability is not being sacrificed to the Food's own ability, so you will not gain any life.

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.

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

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with The Cabbage Merchant, 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 glossaryGPlayers write colors as letters: G for green.TokensToken decks fill the battlefield with small creatures made by their cards, then attack with all of them or make them all bigger at once. A token is a creature (or other object) that a card creates, not a card from your deck.Open the Tokens pageToken EngineMakes tokens again and again rather than once. A token is a creature or other permanent created by a card, with no card of its own. Something that makes one token gives you a body; something that makes them every turn gives you a board you can keep rebuilding after it is cleared. Grave Titan, Bitterblossom, OphiomancerOpen the Token Engine 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 pageRampAn effect that accelerates your mana, giving you a reusable mana source beyond the usual one land per turn. Cultivate Rampant GrowthOpen the Ramp 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 page