Tireless Provisioner 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
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, create a Food token or a Treasure token. (Food is an artifact with ",
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life." Treasure is an artifact with "
Complete guide
Tireless Provisioner is a versatile powerhouse for any green deck that loves to play lands. Every time a land enters the battlefield under your control, this Elf Scout ensures you have either the mana or the health needed to stay in the game. It reflects the flexibility of nature by letting you choose exactly what resource you need at that very moment.
Understanding Landfall
The Landfall ability is a triggered ability that goes on the stack whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control. This includes lands you play as your turn action or lands put into play by spells and abilities. Each time this happens with Tireless Provisioner on the field, you get to choose between creating a Food token or a Treasure token. Note that the choice is made as the ability resolves, not when it is put on the stack.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, a land enters the battlefield under your control. This triggers the Provisioner's ability. Second, the ability is placed on the stack, and players have a chance to respond with spells or abilities. Third, as the ability resolves, you make the choice: Food or Treasure. Finally, the token is created. Because the tokens are artifacts, they can trigger other abilities that care about artifacts entering the battlefield.
Common Pitfalls
A common mistake is forgetting that Food and Treasure are artifact types, not creature types, even if they share properties with other permanents. Additionally, remember that you cannot sacrifice a single Food or Treasure token to pay for two different costs. If an effect asks you to sacrifice an artifact and you choose your Food token, you do not gain the 3 life from the Food's own activated ability unless you specifically activated that ability (and paid {2}) instead.
When to Play the Provisioner
You should play Tireless Provisioner early in the game to maximize the value of your subsequent land drops. It is particularly effective in decks that use fetch lands or ramp spells, as these allow for multiple Landfall triggers in a single turn. Choose Treasure when you are looking to accelerate into larger spells, and choose Food if your life total is under pressure from aggressive opponents.
Interaction examples
Solemn Simulacrum
TreasureWhen Solemn Simulacrum enters the battlefield, you search for a basic land and put it into play. This triggers Tireless Provisioner. You can choose to create a Treasure token, effectively refunding one mana spent on the Golem immediately, or saving it for a future turn.
Sakura-Tribe Elder
FoodYou can sacrifice Sakura-Tribe Elder to search for a basic land. When that land enters the battlefield, the Provisioner triggers. If you are low on health, you can choose to create a Food token. This transition from a creature to a land and then to a health resource helps stabilize your board state.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Tireless Provisioner
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.
Card named in this ruling
- #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.
Card named in this ruling
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner
- 1Animate the land.
- 2Cast Springheart Nantuko for its bestow cost by paying
, attaching it to the animated land. - 3Play any land.
- 4When the land enters the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko and Tireless Provisioner trigger.
- 5Resolve the Tireless Provisioner trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 6Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 7Resolve the Springheart Nantuko trigger, causing you to pay to create a token copy of the land it is attached to.
- 8When the land token enters the battlefield, Tireless Provisioner and Springheart Nantuko trigger.
Springheart Nantuko + Tireless Provisioner
- 1Earthbend a land, thus animating it.
- 2Cast Springheart Nantuko for its bestow cost by paying , attaching it to the animated land.
- 3Play any land.
- 4When the land enters the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko and Tireless Provisioner trigger.
- 5Resolve the Tireless Provisioner trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 6Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 7Resolve the Springheart Nantuko trigger, causing you to pay to create a token copy of the land it is attached to.
- 8When the land token enters the battlefield, Tireless Provisioner and Springheart Nantuko trigger.
Shifting Woodland + Aftermath Analyst + Tireless Provisioner + Sylvan Safekeeper
- 1Activate Sylvan Safekeeper by sacrificing any land except Shifting Woodland
- 2Repeat step 1 until you control no other lands except Shifting Woodland.
- 3Activate Shifting Woodland's second ability by paying , causing it to become a copy of Aftermath Analyst until end of turn.
- 4Activate Shifting Woodland by paying
and sacrificing it, returning it and all other land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. - 5When the lands enter the battlefield, Tireless Provisioner triggers that many times, creating a Treasure token for each land that entered the battlefield this way.
- 6Activate eight Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding
. - 7Repeat.
- 8Resolve all Sylvan Safekeeper abilities.
Shifting Woodland + Aftermath Analyst + Tireless Provisioner + Zuran Orb
- 1Activate Zuran Orb by sacrificing any land except Shifting Woodland, causing you to gain 2 life.
- 2Repeat step 1 until you control no other lands except Shifting Woodland.
- 3Activate Shifting Woodland's second ability by paying , causing it to become a copy of Aftermath Analyst until end of turn.
- 4Activate Shifting Woodland by paying and sacrificing it, returning it and all other land cards from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- 5When the lands enter the battlefield, Tireless Provisioner triggers that many times, creating a Treasure token for each land that entered the battlefield this way.
- 6Activate eight Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 7Repeat.
- 8If you control nine or more lands, this combo will net infinite Treasure tokens and/or Food tokens due to Tireless Provisioner's trigger.
Kodama of the East Tree + Tireless Provisioner + Simic Growth Chamber
- 1Play Simic Growth Chamber.
- 2When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, it, Tireless Provisioner, and Kodama of the East Tree trigger.
- 3Resolve the Kodama of the East Tree trigger, choosing not to put anything from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 4Resolve the Simic Growth Chamber trigger, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Tireless Provisioner trigger, creating a token.
- 6When the token enters the battlefield, Kodama triggers, putting Simic Growth Chamber from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 7When Simic Growth Chamber enters the battlefield, it and Tireless Provisioner trigger.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Lumra, Bellow of the Woods + Springheart Nantuko + Zuran Orb + Tireless Provisioner
- 1Play any land.
- 2When the land enters the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko triggers.
- 3Holding priority, activate Zuran Orb by sacrificing a land.
- 4Repeat step 3 until you control no lands.
- 5Resolve the Springheart Nantuko trigger, causing you to pay to create a token copy of Lumra.
- 6Put the token Lumra into your graveyard due to the legend rule.
- 7The Lumra token's enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, causing you to mill four cards and returning all lands from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
- 8When the lands enter the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko and Tireless Provisioner trigger that many times.
Springheart Nantuko + Dryad Arbor + Tireless Provisioner + Lotus Cobra
- 1Play any land from your hand.
- 2When the land enters the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko, Tireless Provisioner and Lotus Cobra trigger.
- 3Resolve the Lotus Cobra trigger, adding .
- 4Resolve the Tireless Provisioner trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Holding priority, activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 6Resolve the Springheart Nantuko trigger, causing you to pay to create a token copy of Dryad Arbor.
- 7When the Dryad Arbor token enters the battlefield, Springheart Nantuko, Tireless Provisioner and Lotus Cobra trigger.
- 8Repeat from step 3.
Kodama of the East Tree + Tireless Provisioner + Gruul Turf
- 1Play Gruul Turf.
- 2When Gruul Turf enters the battlefield, it, Tireless Provisioner, and Kodama of the East Tree trigger.
- 3Resolve the Kodama of the East Tree trigger, choosing not to put anything from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 4Resolve the Gruul Turf trigger, returning it from the battlefield to your hand.
- 5Resolve the Tireless Provisioner trigger, creating a token.
- 6When the token enters the battlefield, Kodama triggers, putting Gruul Turf from your hand onto the battlefield.
- 7When Gruul Turf enters the battlefield, it and Tireless Provisioner trigger.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
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