The Art of Tea
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This printing
SetTLE
Collector #129
Released2025-11-21
Raritycommon
ArtistEilene Cherie
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

The Art of Tea

CommonColour IDMV 2
Instant — Lesson
Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control. Create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Keywords
Food
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 (4)
wotc2 Oct 2025
Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.
wotc2 Oct 2025
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
wotc2 Oct 2025
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
wotc2 Oct 2025
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 Bosco, Just a Bear's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost). 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 Bosco, Just a Bear's ability.
Ranked by shared capabilities, colour identity, mana value and type — never by strategic judgement.