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Late to Dinner

Late to Dinner

Sorcery

common

Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

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Semantic Tags

Food Mattersmechanical

Food token synergies — creation, sacrifice, and artifact interactions.

Food token synergies — creation, sacrifice, and artifact interactions.

Cares about cards in the graveyard, puts cards into the graveyard, or benefits from things dying.

Returns cards from the graveyard to your hand, the battlefield, or the top of your library.

Life Gainmechanical

Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.

Mana Sinkmechanical

A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.

Reanimatormechanical

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Puts creatures into the graveyard then returns them to the battlefield cheaply.

Recursionvector

Returns cards from graveyard to hand or library (not battlefield — that is reanimation).

Creates creature tokens, Treasure tokens, Food tokens, Clue tokens, or other token types.

Undyingvector

A keyword ability that can return a creature from the graveyard to the battlefield. See rule 702.93, “Undying.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperlegal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (4)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
The List#MH2-329common···
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons#103common···
Modern Horizons 2#19common···
Modern Horizons 2#329common···

Related Rules

702.93

Undying

702.93a

Undying is a triggered ability. “Undying” means “When this permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, if it had no +1/+1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a +1/+1 counter on it.”

704.8

If a state-based action results in a permanent leaving the battlefield at the same time other state-based actions were performed, that permanent’s last known information is derived from the game state before any of those state-based actions were performed.

Rulings

2021-06-18

If the target is illegal as the spell tries to resolve, perhaps because it has been removed from the graveyard, you will not create a Food token.

2024-11-08

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 Maraleaf Rider's ability.

2024-11-08

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

2024-11-08

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