Once in a while every planeswalker gets hungry. For this list, we are taking a look at some snacks that can smash through the arena. Food recently came onto the scene when Eldraine was released. Since its release, many cards that enabled these archetypes got banned. However, there are still some fun decks that take advantage of the delicious cards. Here are the top five food decks you will see out in the arena.
5)Sultai Food
Once upon a time there was a planeswalker named Oko
If Oko was still legal in the arena, this deck would still be the bane of standard. Oko will be talked about a lot on this list because he pushed these decks to heights that broke the game. Black gives you access to removal. Blue and green are here for the ramp and Oko. there was a saying during Eldraine standard, if you did not play oko you probably won’t win. Make food and make use of Oko for this deck to truly show you what a banned card looks like
What is fun about this deck?
- Abuses the power of Oko
- Ramps hard
- Plenty of removal
- Insane draw power
- Even has the ability gain life
How to play this deck
- Deploy a land and play the goose
- Drop that island for blue and now you can play Oko on turn 2
- Use the spells you have to make food tokens
- Use Oko to just shut down your opponent’s creatures and gain life
- Stall out the game til you have the chance to attack and win
Cards
4 Watery Grave
3 Trail of Crumbs
2 Bolas's Citadel
4 Paradise Druid
1 Once Upon a Time
2 Vraska, Golgari Queen
3 Swamp
6 Forest
3 Temple of Malady
4 Golden Egg
4 Breeding Pool
2 Assassin's Trophy
2 Hydroid Krasis
4 Murderous Rider
4 Wicked Wolf
4 Gilded Goose
4 Oko, Thief of Crowns
4 Overgrown Tomb
4)Simic food
But he was too strong so he got banned the end
Blue and green are all you need for this deck to work. Green ramps incredibly with these cards and blue just gives you access to oko. The deck is really a mono green stomp that splashes blue for Oko. That was the problem, everyone splashed in an extra color because the card was so powerful. It limited standard and allowed broken combos to occur. Wield this power and make food tokens to exploit one of the strongest cards of the last 5 years.
What makes this deck fun?
- Crazy ramp ability
- Play big spells super early
- Stomp with massive creatures
- Oko is amazing
- The deck goes off as early as turn two
How to play this deck
- Deploy a forest play the goose
- Deploy an island and use the mana to play Oko
- Let the elks run wild
- Generate tons of food tokens as you cast massive bombs
- Survive til the late game or go aggro and stomp out your opponent
Cards
4 Wicked Wolf
2 Nissa, Who Shakes the World
2 Mu Yanling, Sky Dancer
4 Leafkin Druid
4 Hydroid Krasis
4 Risen Reef
4 Breeding Pool
4 Temple of Mystery
2 Feasting Troll King
2 Golden Egg
2 Trail of Crumbs
4 Giant Opportunity
3 Gingerbread Cabin
1 Castle Vantress
4 Gilded Goose
4 Island
4 Forest
4 Oko, Thief of Crowns
2 Castle Garenbrig
3)Jund Food
Sure Oko was strong but at least this dragon is legal
This time let's use black, red, and green with food. Green ramps so well and has most of the food token cards in it. Red gives us a little more fire for the engine. Black removes what it needs to as we want it to.This tri-color deck utilizes the strength of each to create a sacrificing damage dealing engine that is simply to die for.
What makes this deck fun?
- Throwing cats in the oven
- Korvold can eat the food for more power
- The food allows you to gain life
- Crazy good ramp
- Aggressive burn midrange playstyle
How to play this deck
- Deploy lands and play as many gooses as you can
- Establish a board state by playing creatures that profit off of sacrifices
- Once you have your sac engines give them fuel
- You can send cauldron familiar into witches oven for a burning loop
- Continue to let the sac triggers conquer the board and swing out for game or burn them to death
Cards
3 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King (ELD) 329
3 Murderous Rider (ELD) 97
3 Paradise Druid (WAR) 171
4 Cauldron Familiar (ELD) 81
4 Gilded Goose (ELD) 160
4 Mayhem Devil (WAR) 204
3 Nissa, Who Shakes the World (WAR) 169
4 Assassin's Trophy (GRN) 152
4 Trail of Crumbs (ELD) 179
4 Witch's Oven (ELD) 237
1 Mountain (THB) 253
3 Swamp (THB) 252
4 Forest (THB) 254
4 Blood Crypt (RNA) 245
4 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
4 Overgrown Tomb (GRN) 253
4 Stomping Ground (RNA) 259
2) Mono green food
Honk!Honk!
Greens are part of any diet and now we can focus on mono green with our food list. Next time i get asked to do a food list i hope i get to eat more chips. This deck is proof that green can be strong on its own without support. With such pure forest fueled mana we ramp hard and make tokens for days.
What makes this deck fun?
- Mono green no mana fixing required
- Fantastic food fueled ramp
- Uses the oven for food production
- Fights often to remove threats
- Food allows you to refuel your life
How this deck is played
- Deploy a forest and summon the goose
- Continue to ramp and play massive creatures
- Produce food tokens in bulk
- Send them into the oven for more value or sac them for life gain
- Swing out with the creatures you have to stomp through the arena
Cards
4 Castle Garenbrig
4 Feasting Troll King
15 Forest
2 Gemrazer
4 Gilded Goose
4 Kazandu Mammoth
2 Kogla, the Titan Ape
4 Llanowar Visionary
2 Ram Through
3 Scavenging Ooze
4 Tangled Florahedron
4 Trail of Crumbs
1 Turntimber Symbiosis
2 Vivien, Monsters' Advocate
4 Wicked Wolf
1 Witch's Oven
1)Golgari Food
bon appetit
The golgari clan loves death. So we shall give the hoard a feast and then sacrifice it for victory. All the things we have come to learn about food are used in combination with more removal. This deck earns the top slot because it is the only one that is 100% legal in standard and not doing terribly at all. It still holds its own and represents food in the arena. Have fun with it and remember if you feel snackish just pick up a deck of food.
What makes this deck fun?
- Golgari hoard power
- Is legal in standard
- Ramp for days
- Plenty of removal
- Aggro play style
How to play this deck
- Deploy lands to get your colors
- Ramp like you know you can with that goose
- Start creating food tokens
- Sacrifice the tokens as you need to power up
- Use removal to create openings and swing out for game
Cards
4 Savvy Hunter (ELD) 200
2 Fierce Witchstalker (ELD) 154
4 Gilded Goose (ELD) 160
4 Trail of Crumbs (ELD) 179
4 Golden Egg (ELD) 220
4 Murderous Rider (ELD) 97
4 Giant Opportunity (ELD) 159
4 Wicked Wolf (ELD) 181
2 Feasting Troll King (ELD) 152
2 Garruk, Cursed Huntsman (ELD) 191
2 Eat to Extinction (THB) 90
7 Swamp (THB) 252
8 Forest (THB) 254
1 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241
4 Temple of Malady (M20) 254
4 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
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