Tough Cookie
Tough Cookie: Artifact Creature - Food Golem, Foundations Jumpstart. When this creature enters, create a Food token. Prices and printings on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{G}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Artifact Creature - Food Golem
- Colour identity
- Green (G)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Foundations Jumpstart (J25)
- Released
- 2024-11-15
- Collector number
- 731
- Artist
- Milivoj Ćeran
- Keywords
- Food
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About Tough Cookie
Tough Cookie is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon green artifact creature from Foundations Jumpstart (J25), a draft-focused set released in November 2024. It is collector number 731 in that set, with art by Milivoj Ćeran. It costs {1}{G} (one generic and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is green. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 2 sets, from Wilds of Eldraine (2023) to Foundations Jumpstart (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.28 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
When this creature enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
{2}{G}: Until end of turn, target noncreature artifact you control becomes a 4/4 artifact creature.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this creature: You gain 3 life.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.28 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Tough Cookie by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
Other printings of Tough Cookie
Tough Cookie has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Wilds of Eldraine (WOE) #193 | Uncommon | 2023 |
Official rulings
Four official rulings apply to Tough Cookie, newest first.
- Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 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.
- As Tough Cookie's second ability resolves, the target permanent keeps any other types and subtypes it had before it became an artifact creature.
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