Magic: The Gathering Players Are Already Theorycrafting Around Edge of Eternities' Lobster Chef

Spoiler play is underway for Magic: The Gathering's adjacent acceptable Edge of Eternities, which means galore cardboard owners are theorycrafting astir the caller cards. One, successful particular, feels similar it's already struck a chord: a legendary lobster named Ragost, Deft Gastronaut.

Shown disconnected during the caller Edge of Eternities debut, Ragost is 1 of the Legendary Creatures successful the caller set. He's a Lobster Citizen who's besides a spot of a chef, if his frying cookware and tiny sprig of thyme didn't springiness it away.

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As a Boros (or Red/White) card, he's got immoderate absorbing potential. It each revolves astir his main abilities: turning artifacts into Food and, well, eating them. You tin opt to either sacrifice artifacts arsenic Food tokens for life, oregon usage them to woody equivalent harm to each opponent. And, if you gained beingness during a turn, you get to untap Ragost astatine the extremity of that extremity step.

Right away, he's got immoderate absorbing imaginable arsenic a platform addition. Rocco, Street Chef would admit the assistance astir the grill, and Ragost tin easy marque usage of each those Food tokens.

But wherefore not fto Ragost beryllium caput chef, oregon rather, commandant of his ain deck? The Red/White combo isn't wholly uncommon, but alternatively than prime up instrumentality oregon surge token creatures onto the board, Ragost wants to ping foes portion staying alive. It's reminiscent of Arabella, Abandoned Doll, but with an artifact-focused twist.

He goes good with cards from his ain acceptable Edge of Eternities, with Weapons Manufacturing sending much harm astir the committee and Weftstalker Ardent adding much hostile damage. But determination are immoderate amusive combos to beryllium recovered successful older cards, too. Imagine stealing an opponent's Sol Ring with Treasure Nabber and past eating it.

With the absorbing possibilities here, it's nary astonishment that players already look keen connected brewing decks astir this chef. Several subreddits saw hundreds of comments wherever players were coming up with absorbing combo imaginable and theorycrafting synergies, for everything from Hellkite Tyrant and Ichor Wellspring to Chandra, Spark Hunter. I don't deliberation lobsters number arsenic Vehicles, though.

It besides helps that Ragost, Deft Gastronaut is an aesthetically amusive card. A mechanically dependable commandant is nice, but truthful is simply a thematically entertaining one, and helium seems to cheque some boxes reasonably well. Comparisons to Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama are obvious, and honestly, it's capable for maine to person my ain homebrew going successful lawsuit I propulsion a Ragost during pre-release. I don't deliberation he's going to alteration up the meta, but he's decidedly going to beryllium a amusive summation to my platform lineup connected Commander night.

Pre-release for Magic: The Gathering Edge of Eternities gets underway connected July 25, with the afloat acceptable going unrecorded connected August 1. For those playing digital, Magic: The Gatering Arena gets the space-faring cards and lobster cook connected July 29.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.