Night of the Sweets' RevengeHow it works & interactions with other cards

A Pantry of Power

When Night of the Sweets' Revenge enters the battlefield, you immediately create a Food token. The most significant impact, however, is the static ability that gives all Foods you control the ability to tap for one green mana. This applies to Food tokens and even non-token artifacts that have the Food subtype. This turns your hoard of snacks into a green mana ramp engine that can fuel high-cost spells or its own activated ability.

Resolving the Final Course

The final ability costs seven mana and requires sacrificing the enchantment itself. This can only be done at sorcery speed. When the ability resolves, it checks the number of Foods you currently control to determine the value of X. Your creatures then get +X/+X until the end of the turn. Note that the value of X is locked in at the moment of resolution; if you lose or gain Foods later in the turn, the bonus does not change. Furthermore, this only affects creatures you control as the ability resolves; any creatures entering the battlefield later in the turn will not receive the buff.

Common Mistakes

A common error is trying to sacrifice a single Food for two different things, like tapping it for mana and sacrificing it for health at the same time. While you can tap it for mana and later sacrifice it, you cannot use the same resource to pay two different costs simultaneously. Also, remember that 'Food' is an artifact type, not a creature type. Even if a creature has the Food type, it counts as an artifact for the purposes of this enchantment's buff.

When to Serve

Play Night of the Sweets' Revenge when you have a board established with several Food tokens or ways to generate them. It acts as a bridge from the mid-game to the late-game, providing the mana needed to cast large spells and then serving as a win condition. It is best used when you have a wide board of creatures that can benefit from the massive +X/+X power boost to end the game in a single combat phase.

Interaction examples

Doubling the Buffet

Doubling Season

With Doubling Season on the battlefield, when Night of the Sweets' Revenge enters, its triggered ability will create two Food tokens instead of one. Later, if you activate a different effect that creates Foods, Doubling Season will keep multiplying your mana sources, making the final +X/+X ability significantly more lethal.

Trampling Through the Kitchen

Garruk's UprisingFood

If you have Garruk's Uprising in play and activate the final ability of Night of the Sweets' Revenge while controlling five Food tokens, your creatures will get +5/+5. Since Garruk's Uprising grants all your creatures trample, this massive power boost ensures that your opponent cannot simply chump-block to survive the turn.

Sequence of Mana

Food

You can tap your Food tokens to add green mana to your mana pool to help pay for the 7-mana cost of Night of the Sweets' Revenge's final ability. Because the ability checks the number of Foods you control only upon resolution, those tapped Foods still count toward the total value of X as long as they remain on the battlefield.