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The Art of Tea

The Art of Tea

Instant — Lesson

common

Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

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Semantic Tags

Cares about +1/+1 counters — places, moves, doubles, or benefits from counters on creatures.

Food Mattersmechanical

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

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

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.

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

Format Legality

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

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal#129common···

Rulings

2025-10-02

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.

2025-10-02

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.

2025-10-02

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

2025-10-02

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