Rapacious Guest

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Rapacious Guest: Creature - Halfling Citizen, Tales of Middle-earth Commander. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{B}
Mana value
3
Type
Creature - Halfling Citizen
Colour identity
Black (B)
Power / toughness
2/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)
Released
2023-06-23
Collector number
28
Artist
Bartłomiej Gaweł
Commander rank
3,296 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Food, Menace

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About Rapacious Guest

Rapacious Guest is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare black creature from Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC), a Commander product released in June 2023. It is collector number 28 in that set, with art by Bartłomiej Gaweł. It costs {2}{B} (two generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is black. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Tales of Middle-earth Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.19 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Menace

Whenever one or more creatures you control deal combat damage to a player, create a Food token.

Whenever you sacrifice a Food, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.

When this creature leaves the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to its power.

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.19 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Rapacious Guest by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Rapacious Guest

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #430Rare2023
Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) #111Rare2023

Official rulings

Six official rulings apply to Rapacious Guest, newest first.

  • 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.
  • Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
  • If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature - Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
  • Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
  • Rapacious Guest's third ability triggers whenever you sacrifice a Food for any reason, not just to activate a Food's activated ability.
  • To determine the amount of life the target opponent loses from Rapacious Guest's last ability, use Rapacious Guest's power as it last existed on the battlefield, not its power in the graveyard.

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