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The Battle of Bywater

The Battle of Bywater

Sorcery

rare

Destroy all creatures with power 3 or greater. Then create a Food token for each creature you control. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")

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Semantic Tags

Board Wipemechanical

Removes multiple permanents at once. Includes destroy-all, exile-all, mass bounce, and damage-based sweepers.

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.

Power Mattersmechanical

Cares about power of creatures — Fling effects, power-based draw, Xenagos strategies.

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

Tokens Mattermechanical

Cares about tokens being on the battlefield — payoffs for having or creating tokens. Distinct from token_generation (which creates them).

Format Legality

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

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Printings (5)

Rulings

2024-11-08

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

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

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