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Today we are going to be talking about Gyome, Master Chef!

Gyome is a four mana 5/3 with trample and at the beginning of your end step you make a Food token for each nontoken creature enter the battlefield this turn and for one mana and sacrifice a Food, a creature gains indestructible until end of turn and is tapped.

It is Thanksgiving in the United States and I wanted to take a look at a Food Commander, and Gyome definitely fits the fill.

Gyome incentivizes going wide, but for creatures and not tokens, so it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to make this a go wide with creature tokens deck, but rather a go wide deck that has a focus on small creatures.

That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have creature tokens, but rather the majority of what we are going to do should focus on getting a lot of creatures on the board.

We can definitely go typal with the recent Squirrel support from Bloomburrow, but the spirit of the holiday means that we should all gather and share in our harvest together.

First we need to find ways to get the Food on the table. Anything that enters with a Food token is a great start, and anything that has some sort of synergy with Food is a given.

Greta, Sweettooth Scourge does both by making a Food and two activated abilities that are activated by sacrificing Food, one that makes your creatures bigger and one that draws you cards.

Camellia, the Seedmiser gives your other Squirrels menace and whenever you sacrifice a Food you make a Squirrel token. You could also Forage (sacrifice a Food or exile three cards from your graveyard) to give all your Squirrels a +1/+1 counter, which also synergizes with her first ability.

Rapacious Guest gives you Food whenever a creature you control deals combat damage and whenever you sacrifice a Food, they get a +1/+1 counter, and when they leave the battlefield an opponent loses life equal to their power.

Another way we can get the most out of our Food is by making them mana sources with Night of the Sweets’ Revenge.

It allows you to tap your Food for a green mana and has an activated ability by giving your creatures +X/+X until end of turn with X being the number of Foods you control.

There are also nontoken sources of getting Food, such as Heaped Harvest which adds a basic land onto the battlefield tapped, Golden Egg that draws you card and filters mana, and Three Bowls of Porridge that deals damage, taps a creature, and gains you life, which all of these artifacts can do as well.

We also have Gingerbrute for a cheap creature to do early damage, Tough Cookie that can animate your Food or other artifacts into 4/4 creatures, and of course Syr Ginger that gets bigger and scries whenever an artifact hits your graveyard, while getting better if an opponent controls a Planeswalker.

All great feasts end, and there are a number of ways to do that. Feasting Hobbit has Devour Food 3, which means we can sacrifice any number of Food tokens as it enters to put three +1/+1 counters on the hobbit for each Food sacrificed this way.

Anything that triggers when a Food or artifact is sacrificed or put in the graveyard activates and we get a massive creature that can’t be blocked if we manage to put an absurd number of counters on it.

Pair that with ways to give them haste and we have a huge swing.

If the budget calls for it, we can also get Ygra, Eater of All who gets two +1/+1 counters for each Food sacrificed, which means that we have two huge beatsticks that can helps us swing for game.

Gyome in the case of this deck is more of a passive Food generator whenever a creature enters the battlefield, but also has synergy with us sacrificing Food to protect our own things as necessary.

Whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not, I do hope that you have a good day with the people who care about you and you care for. If you are unable to, I do hope at the very least you get some delicious food.

Happy Thanksgiving,

From, J.M. Casual