Nocturnal Hunger
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SetBLB
Collector #102
Released2024-08-02
Raritycommon
ArtistSam Guay
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

Nocturnal Hunger

CommonColour IDMV 3
Instant
Gift a Food (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Food token before its other effects. It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Destroy target creature. If the gift wasn't promised, you lose 2 life.
Keywords
GiftFood
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (11)
wotc8 Nov 2024
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
wotc8 Nov 2024
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
wotc8 Nov 2024
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.
wotc26 Jul 2024
You can't pay a gift cost more than once.
wotc26 Jul 2024
If a spell for which the gift was promised is countered, doesn't resolve (perhaps because all of its targets are illegal), or is otherwise removed from the stack, the gift won't be given. None of its other effects will happen either.
wotc26 Jul 2024
For instants and sorceries with gift, the gift is given to the appropriate opponent as part of the resolution of the spell. This happens before any of the spell's other effects would take place.