Gyome, Master Chef is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Trample At the beginning of your end step, create a number of Food tokens equal to the number of nontoken creatures you had enter the battlefield under your control this turn., Sacrifice a Food: Target creature gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
Complete guide
Gyome, Master Chef is a powerful Legendary Troll Warlock that turns your creature spells into a feast of resources. By rewarding you for playing nontoken creatures, he ensures your board remains both well-fed and highly resilient.
Cooking Up Tokens
Gyome's primary ability triggers at the beginning of your end step. It checks the game state to see how many nontoken creatures entered the battlefield under your control during the current turn. This count includes Gyome himself if he entered this turn, and it even includes creatures that entered but have since left the battlefield or changed control before the end step began.
How Resolution Works
The ability tracks the specific event of a nontoken creature entering the battlefield. When your end step starts, the ability goes on the stack and determines the final count. Once it resolves, you create that many Food tokens. These are artifact tokens with the intrinsic ability to be sacrificed for 3 life or used specifically for Gyome's protection ability.
Serving Protection
Gyome offers an activated ability: for one mana and the sacrifice of a Food, you target a creature to gain indestructible until end of turn and then tap it. Note that you can activate this even if the creature is already tapped. This is a defensive tool; however, because it taps the creature, using it on your own attacker after blocks are declared is usually better than using it before your combat phase.
Common Mistakes
A frequent error is trying to use one Food token for two different costs. You cannot sacrifice a single Food token to both gain 3 life from its own ability and activate Gyome's indestructible ability. Additionally, remember that Gyome only counts nontoken creatures; creating 1/1 Saprolings or Goblins will not result in extra Food at your end step.
Interaction examples
Solemn SimulacrumIf you cast Solemn Simulacrum while Gyome, Master Chef is on the battlefield, the Simulacrum enters and its land-search ability triggers. During your end step, Gyome detects that one nontoken creature entered your control. You will create one Food token. You can then spend one mana and sacrifice that Food to make the Simulacrum indestructible if an opponent tries to destroy it.
Eternal WitnessIf you cast Gyome, Master Chef and Eternal Witness in the same turn, Gyome's end step ability will count both of them because they are both nontoken creatures that entered under your control. You will create two Food tokens during your end step.
FoodYour opponent casts a spell to destroy Eternal Witness. In response, you pay one mana and sacrifice a Food token using Gyome's ability targeting the Witness. The Witness gains indestructible and becomes tapped. When the opponent's spell resolves, the Witness survives the destruction effect.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Gyome, Master Chef
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
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- #2· Wizards of the Coast
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.
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- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
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- #4· Wizards of the Coast
The second ability will count Gyome itself on the turn it enters the battlefield.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
You can activate the last ability even if the creature is already tapped.
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- #6· Wizards of the Coast
Gyome, Master Chef's second ability counts all nontoken creatures that entered the battlefield under your control this turn, even if some or all of those creatures are no longer on the battlefield, no longer creatures, or no longer under your control.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Apex Altisaur + Gyome, Master Chef + Magmatic Galleon
- 1Cast Apex Altisaur by paying
. - 2When Apex Altisaur enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers.
- 3Holding priority, activate Gyome twice by paying
and sacrificing two Foods, giving Apex Altisaur and any creature an opponent controls indestructible until end of turn. - 4Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing Apex Altisaur to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 5Apex Altisaur's second ability triggers, and Magmatic Galleon's second ability triggers if the opposing creature's toughness is less than 0.
- 6Resolve the Magmatic Galleon trigger, if applicable, creating a Treasure artifact token.
- 7Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing it to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 8Repeat from step 5.
Apex Altisaur + Gyome, Master Chef + Toralf, God of Fury // Toralf's Hammer
- 1Cast Apex Altisaur by paying .
- 2When Apex Altisaur enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers.
- 3Holding priority, activate Gyome twice by paying and sacrificing two Foods, giving Apex Altisaur and any creature an opponent controls indestructible until end of turn.
- 4Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing Apex Altisaur to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 5Apex Altisaur's second ability triggers, and Toralf triggers if the opposing creature's toughness is less than 0.
- 6Resolve the Toralf trigger, if applicable, dealing damage equal to the excess to any target.
- 7Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing it to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 8Repeat from step 5.
Time Sieve + Myr Battlesphere + Teleportation Circle + Gyome, Master Chef
- 1At the beginning of your end step, Teleportation Circle and Gyome trigger.
- 2Resolve the Teleportation Circle trigger, blinking Myr Battlesphere.
- 3When Myr Battlesphere enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers, creating four 1/1 Myr artifact creature tokens.
- 4Resolve the Gyome trigger, creating at least one Food artifact token.
- 5Activate Time Sieve by tapping it and sacrificing a Food and the Myrs, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Repeat each turn.
Gyome, Master Chef + Time Sieve + Shrieking Drake
- 1Cast Shrieking Drake by paying
. - 2When Shrieking Drake enters the battlefield, it triggers, returning itself from the battlefield to your hand.
- 3Repeat four additional times.
- 4At the beginning of your end step, Gyome triggers, creating five Food artifact tokens.
- 5Activate Time Sieve by tapping it and sacrificing the Foods, causing you to take an extra turn after this one.
- 6Repeat each turn.
Apex Altisaur + Gyome, Master Chef + Fall of Cair Andros
- 1Cast Apex Altisaur by paying .
- 2When Apex Altisaur enters the battlefield, its first ability triggers.
- 3Holding priority, activate Gyome twice by paying and sacrificing two Foods, giving Apex Altisaur and any creature an opponent controls indestructible until end of turn.
- 4Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing Apex Altisaur to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 5Apex Altisaur's second ability triggers, and Fall of Cair Andros triggers if the opposing creature's toughness is less than 0.
- 6Resolve the Fall of Cair Andros trigger, if applicable, causing you to put a number of +1/+1 counters on an Army you control equal to the excess damage.
- 7Resolve the Apex Altisaur trigger, causing it to fight the indestructible creature the opponent controls.
- 8Repeat from step 5.
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