Questionable Cuisine 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
Return up to two target creature cards from your graveyard to your hand. Create a Food token for each trash can you can see from your seat. (It's an artifact with ",
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Complete guide
Questionable Cuisine is a flavor-packed sorcery from Un-sets that blends traditional graveyard recursion with a unique real-world environmental interaction. This card rewards you for being observant of your surroundings, specifically how many waste receptacles are in your line of sight. It is a powerful way to refill your hand while potentially generating a massive amount of life-gaining tokens.
What It Does
Questionable Cuisine has two main effects. First, it targets up to two creature cards in your graveyard to return to your hand, acting as a double 'Raise Dead' effect. Second, it generates Food tokens based on the number of trash cans visible from your seat. Each Food token is an artifact that can be sacrificed for two mana to gain 3 life.
How It Resolves Step by Step
When you cast the spell, you first choose up to two target creature cards in your graveyard. Upon resolution, you move those cards from your graveyard to your hand. Immediately after, you count the number of trash cans you can see from your current seated position. You then create that many Food tokens. Remember, you must stay in your seat; you cannot stand up or move around the room to increase your count.
Common Mistakes and Legal Receptacles
A common error is misidentifying what counts as a trash can. According to official rulings, a trash can must be a receptacle whose primary purpose is storing garbage, often lined with a bag. A soda can with a wrapper in it or a loose garbage bag does not count. Additionally, you cannot bring your own trash cans to the game to inflate the count; they must be native to the room where the game is being played.
When to Play It
This card is best played in the mid-to-late game when your graveyard is populated with valuable creatures and you have stabilized your position. Because it creates Food tokens, it provides a buffer against aggressive decks. If you are playing in a venue like a large convention hall with many visible bins, this card can generate an overwhelming number of artifacts for synergy.
Interaction examples
Toxic Deluge
Questionable CuisineAfter an opponent casts Toxic Deluge to clear the board, you can cast Questionable Cuisine to return your two best creatures to your hand. If there are two trash cans visible in the game store, you also create two Food tokens to help recover the life you might have lost earlier.
VictimizeUnlike Victimize, which puts creatures directly onto the battlefield tapped at the cost of sacrificing a creature, Questionable Cuisine simply puts them into your hand without requiring a sacrifice. This makes it safer if you have no creatures on board, plus you get the added benefit of the Food tokens.
FoodIf you cast Questionable Cuisine while sitting in a room where three trash cans are visible, you return your targets and create three Food tokens. You can later spend two mana and tap a Food token to sacrifice it and gain 3 life, helping you survive long enough to cast the creatures you just retrieved.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Questionable Cuisine
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
You must remain in your seat while looking around the room. No, you can't pick up your seat and walk around to get more Food.
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- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Trash cans are receptacles whose main purpose is storing garbage. They are often lined with garbage bags. A bag by itself isn't a trash can. A can isn't a trash can if storing garbage is not its primary purpose, even if it contains trash (e.g. a soda can with gum wrappers inside).
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
You can't bring your own trash cans. They must be native to the room you're in.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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