Since this is green and green has a decent number of big creatures this is potentially fantastic as mana acceleration. But it's gotta be played right. And it's probably absolutely useless in some formats (Legacy....), but for games that will likely be going longer, like casual or multiplayer casual games, it can be great. Think about it, your first 2 turns you play 2 creatures with a CMC of 1. If the first one was Llanowar Elves. On turn 3 play this. With Llanowar Elves, BOOM! Exile both creatures and you've got a Turn 4 Terra Stomper or better. Or if you tap Llanowar elves for first, you can get a Terastodon, Symbiotic Wurm, or any other 8 mana creature out. Or, alternately you could play another creature (preferably with CMC 4) and exile all of them for a potential 9 mana on turn 4. Myojin of Life's Web that early would be nice. Or a number of other things. It just has to be played by someone who knows how to properly utilize it.
It does seem pretty useless at first sight though.
zk3
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I saw this used with scary efficiency when I played against a legacy goblin deck. Splash green into your goblin deck (maybe gives some sideboard enchantment hate?) can exile your Goblin Matron or Goblin Ringleader to play the cards you just got, any maybe even come out with even more extra mana (Goblin Warchief).
If Goblin Recruiter was not banned then you could stack your deck with Ringleaders/Warchiefs to put an entire army out once food chain drops
NARFNra
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
It's out of color, but if you can somehow cheat the Great Lord Egotist into play(Or morph it!), this is pretty much "Buy a Pelakka Wurm!"
ROBRAM89
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
...eww.
blurrymadness
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
notice how it still gives you mana for tokens. Used cleverly you could get quite a lot out. However.. most of the time doing this is worse than if you just had alters out..
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Although engines can be hard to get going due to the "creatures-only" clause, there's still a lot of cool stuff you can do with the chain. A creature like Priest of Gix can turn three mana into seven, letting you through down a Pelakka Wurm quickly. "Free" creatures like Vine Dryad are a great bonus, essentially giving you five free mana. With a chain of Llanowar Sentinels, you can also get a bunch of easy mana. If you have a mass-token generator like Pure Reflection, however, you can dump your hand of creatures all in one turn!
umumwhatshisname
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Turn 1: Forest Llandawar Elf Turn 2: Forest, This,. exile elf to get a good 2 drop. Turnn 3 use convoke and affinity creatures to put out whatever you want
How does this interact with hybrid converted mana costs, like Wistful Selkie?
Grumman
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Snugglie: Wistful Selkie has a hybrid mana cost, not a hybrid mana cost. The CMC is always 3. Even for spells like Reaper King, the CMC is a constant (in this case, 10).
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This with Misthollow Griffin DOES provide infinite mana- however, the mana can't be spent on anything but creature spells. There goes my vision of a blue suns' zenith...
Psychrates
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Metamorphosis, a little beefed up, and permanent. Nice.
Creates infinite mana with misthollow griffin where the mana can only be spent on creatures.
But food Chain is also one of the best cards in a Maelstrom Wanderer EDH deck.
And now with the new Prossh, it's even better than in Wanderer Decks, as you need to cascade into the right things with Wanderer. With Prossh + Food Chain you already get infinite mana, so it's a 2 card combo with 1 being your general.
Caiolaurenti
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually, the reference this card makes to the food chain is incorrect. In ecology, we say that the amount of energy transferred from a lower level consumer to a higher level consumer - we call that liquid energy - is always considerably smaller than the amount of energy the lower level consumer received. This happens because part of that energy is spent to maintain the metabolism of the lower level consumer, and therefore is not absorbed upon advancing in the food chain. Thus, regarding the flavor of the card, it makes no sense that the creature should provide the player, considering the player is at the higher level (wich I think is the only conceivable option, considering the card's effect), more mana than it needed to be cast - this mana being, in this metaphor, what we defined as liquid energy. As for the card itself 4.5/5
Bbone37
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At first I thought Prossh and this wouldnt make an infinite combo, but I didnt take into consideration the Kobold tokens he creates.
1) So you play Prossh, make 6 dudes, sac Prossh for 7 green, a Kobold for R, and 1 for B. You have 9 mana and 4 tokens.
2) Recast Prossh for 8, leaving 1 G, make 8 tokens, 12 Kobolds on the field.
3) Keep repeating, saccing more tokens each time, but always making more tokens next cast then you previously had to sac.
So yeah, eventually you would be making a very large amount of 0/1 Kobolds. I guess haste and overrun at that point?
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It does seem pretty useless at first sight though.
Splash green into your goblin deck (maybe gives some sideboard enchantment hate?) can exile your Goblin Matron or Goblin Ringleader to play the cards you just got, any maybe even come out with even more extra mana (Goblin Warchief).
If Goblin Recruiter was not banned then you could stack your deck with Ringleaders/Warchiefs to put an entire army out once food chain drops
Turn 2: Forest, This,. exile elf to get a good 2 drop.
Turnn 3 use convoke and affinity creatures to put out whatever you want
Turn 2: Forest, tap all for 3 and play Food Chain
Turn 3: Island, tap all for 4 and play Scornful Egotist. Sac both and get any crazy creature cmc 11 or less. Personally, I'd go for Inkwell Leviathan :P
Wistful Selkie has a hybrid mana cost, not a hybrid mana cost. The CMC is always 3. Even for spells like Reaper King, the CMC is a constant (in this case, 10).
But food Chain is also one of the best cards in a Maelstrom Wanderer EDH deck.
And now with the new Prossh, it's even better than in Wanderer Decks, as you need to cascade into the right things with Wanderer. With Prossh + Food Chain you already get infinite mana, so it's a 2 card combo with 1 being your general.
As for the card itself
4.5/5
1) So you play Prossh, make 6 dudes, sac Prossh for 7 green, a Kobold for R, and 1 for B. You have 9 mana and 4 tokens.
2) Recast Prossh for 8, leaving 1 G, make 8 tokens, 12 Kobolds on the field.
3) Keep repeating, saccing more tokens each time, but always making more tokens next cast then you previously had to sac.
So yeah, eventually you would be making a very large amount of 0/1 Kobolds. I guess haste and overrun at that point?