Ygra, Eater of All Commander Deck Guide

Last updated on January 30, 2026

Ygra, Eater of All | Illustration by Ilse Gort

Ygra, Eater of All is just one of the many standout cards from Bloomburrow, which (in my opinion) is one of the best sets of the decade so far. It has very fitting abilities for a Calamity Beast, and it’s trivial to assemble a deck that combos off and grows Ygra into a must-answer threat.

If you have an appetite for a somewhat optimized sacrifice deck, I’ve got the build for you!

The Deck

Ygra, Eater of All | Illustration by Chris Rahn

This is primarily a Golgari () sacrifice deck that can win the game with infinite combos or a well-timed board wipe that clears the way for Ygra to attack and take out your opponents one by one.

Between the number of combos that are easy to assemble, plus the presence of Worldly Tutor and Thornvault Forager to help to assemble them, this grades as a Bracket 4 deck, but just barely. Cut out the 2-card combos and it’s a Bracket 3 deck.

The Commander: Ygra, Eater of All

Ygra, Eater of All is a beast of a card. It turns every creature on the battlefield (except itself) into Food artifacts, and it grows whenever a Food is put into a graveyard. If it sticks on the battlefield, your opponents need to answer it as soon as they can or face their doom.

Golgari is full of edicts and sacrifice payoffs, plus it’s the primary color combination of Food token generation. An important note to keep in mind given the number of combos in this deck that generate creature or Food tokens: Creatures that become foods are still subject to summoning sickness, so you can’t sacrifice them to the food activated ability that they gain from Ygra.

Squirrels

This deck runs a few squirrels, and Camellia, the Seedmiser and Chatterfang, Squirrel General lead the charge. Both provide you tokens, and both have sacrifice outlets that let you convert Food tokens and creatures that Ygra puts on the menu into perks.

Thornvault Forager does tidy work as a mana dork that’s also a sacrifice outlet and a squirrel tutor, perfect to fetch Camellia or Chatterfang when you’re ready to complete a combo.

Ravenous Squirrel has a similar ability to your commander that lets it grow as you sacrifice artifacts and creatures, and it has a sac outlet that gives you 1 life plus a card. Honored Dreyleader either enters as a big threat late in the game or grows into one over time, especially if it’s around while you go off with a combo.

More Sac Outlets, Payoffs, and Food

Savvy Hunter and Peregrin Took both offer card draw if you sacrifice enough Food to them, and they each go near-infinite with the right setup. Good ol’ Pippin plays a bigger role because it also adds extra tokens to help fuel those combos. Village Rites also gives you card draw; what’s fun in this deck is that you can actually wind up with more sacrifice fodder once it resolves, depending on the other cards you have on the board.

Witch's Oven doesn’t have a Clock of Omens in this deck to make it go infinite, but it’s a cheap sacrifice outlet that you can use early. Viscera Seer, Warren Soultrader, and Ashnod's Altar are repeatable sacrifice outlets that are part of many infinite combos.

This deck runs a trio made up of Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER that drain your opponents of life as creatures die. Note that Zulaport Cutthroat cares specifically about your creatures, while Blood Artist and Sephiroth trigger from your opponents’ creatures, too. Marionette Apprentice and Mirkwood Bats fill similar roles without the lifegain.

Scavenger's Talent turns the first creature death of yours each turn into a Food token, but you can level it up into a mill engine and a reanimator. Elanor Gardner pays you off with ramp at the end of your turn if you’ve sacrificed a Food, something that’s trivial in this deck between Food tokens and the various sacrifice outlets for them.

Pitiless Plunderer is a known commodity as a Treasure generator that cares about creature deaths. Nuka-Cola Vending Machine also gives you Treasure when you sacrifice your foods, and it nearly doubles up on Pitiless Plunderer’s ability when Ygra is on the battlefield.

Rapacious Guest creates a bunch of Food tokens if you attack with a wider board than what your opponents can block, but we care about its ability to grow. Make it big enough and it can take out an opponent either through combat or if you sacrifice it. Experimental Confectioner gives you rat tokens as you sacrifice Food, which are also perfect sac fodder when Ygra is on the battlefield.

Night of the Sweets' Revenge has a neat bit of synergy. Yes, it turns your Food tokens into mana rocks, but add in Ygra and all your creatures become mana dorks. The Cabbage Merchant has a similar role as a mana producer, but its main use is as a consistent source of Food tokens.

Hazel's Brewmaster and Gilded Goose are each staples of Food decks, and they combine to enable a weird combo that let you give the Goose’s abilities to all your foods.

If neither the original Phoenix Fleet Airship nor its copies are removed for three turns and you sacrifice something each time around the table, you’ll have the eight you need to automatically animate them all. Crew 1 means that it should be a breeze to animate it before then, whether on offense or on defense.

Artifact Hate and Other Interaction

Manglehorn enters as targeted removal, but it also makes your opponents’ creatures enter tapped because of Ygra. Viridian Revel turns every opposing artifact that dies into card draw. The “may” clause is appreciated here, since you won’t leave yourself with too many cards in hand or not enough in your library.

Toxic Deluge is a classic for a reason, and that’s because it gets around hexproof, shroud, ward, and even protection. Creeping Corrosion and Fade from History also act as near total board wipes in this deck.

Assassin's Trophy, Putrefy, and Beast Within are more Commander staple removal spells, while Nature's Claim is a 1-mana Naturalize that can also nab a creature thanks to Ygra.

Pest Infestation adds more targeted removal, and it’s a good outlet for infinite mana if the combo you’ve assembled doesn’t involve Chatterfang or a Blood Artist.

Karn, the Great Creator is pretty much only here for the static ability, but you can use its +1 in creative ways to mess with your opponents’ utility tokens or turn their nontoken artifacts into creatures, and therefore more foods.

Season of Gathering has good modality here. It can help a very tall Ygra, Eater of All, Rapacious Guest, or Ravenous Squirrel trample over blockers, it’s another artifact and enchantment sweeper, and it provides a lot of card draw in the right circumstance. Just don’t deck yourself with a creature that’s taller than your library.

Collective Resistance also gives you modality, though it only removes single targets, and it trades in the card draw for a hexproof and indestructible enabler.

Edicts

These repeatable edicts grow Ygra if it’s on the battlefield, but they also slow down your opponents in a more grindy match. At the very least, they’re important cards that can distract your opponents and make them burn counterspells and removal before you assemble one of your many combos. Never underestimate the value of good removal bait.

You should often have enough sacrifice fodder around to keep forcing tough choices on your opponents with Braids, Arisen Nightmare. The only hiccup is that with your commander on the field, any creature you sacrifice also counts as an artifact, so they could liquidate their utility tokens before you even touch their key pieces. Every little bit helps, though.

Dictate of Erebos and Grave Pact both turn any of your infinite combos that rely on creature sacrifices into board wipes to clear the way for a big Ygra, an army of tokens, or whatever else you’ve assembled.

The Mana Base

This Ygra’s deck’s mana base is mainly composed of basics and dual lands, plus a few mana rocks and Treasure producers. Night of the Sweets' Revenge and The Cabbage Merchant turn your Food into more mana, Dark Ritual can give you a boost when you need it, and you have a bunch of green’s ramp spells. Thornvault Forager and Gilded Goose add a pair of flavorful mana dorks (pun not intended) to round things out.

Bojuka Bog and Rogue's Passage give you utility as graveyard hate and an unblockable enabler, respectively. The Shire adds more Food tokens when you have nothing better to do with your mana. Restless Cottage gives you a mana sink that can join in on the offensive, but it’s even better in an Ygra earthbend build.

The Strategy

You have a 5-mana commander and almost 50% of your deck sits at 2-4 mana, so you want to keep a hand that has lots of lands, or lands and ramp. Your commander is a lightning rod, so don’t feel the need to cast it immediately. It’ll be better to wait until you have the mana and spells to protect it.

Keep an eye out for your combo pieces. Not every piece fits together, but cards like Camellia, the Seedmiser, Warren Soultrader, Peregrin Took, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General are part of multiple combos, including with each other. And don’t worry if some of your combo pieces bite the dust: You have plenty of ways to assemble a game winner. Some of your combos can win the game when your Blood Artist effects are on the battlefield to drain your opponents’ life, or you can mill everyone out with a leveled up Scavenger's Talent.

Also watch for your artifact sweepers, because they can clear the way for your commander to attack. Aside from commander damage, you have other creatures in Rapacious Guest, Ravenous Squirrel, and Honored Dreyleader that can grow very, very big. In a pinch, you can also sacrifice a big Rapacious Guest to take out an opponent.

The combos really are the lifeblood here. They’re your path to infinite mana, life drain, or mill, or to a huge commander.

Combos and Interactions

This deck packs over 20 combos, which you can also iterate on if you have other cards on the battlefield at the same time. I’ll list most of them before we take a closer look (feel free to let me know in the comments if I’ve missed any).

• Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Pitiless Plunderer
• Peregrin Took + Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• Peregrin Took + Experimental Confectioner
• Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Blood Artist (or Zulaport Cutthroat, or Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER)
• Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Academy Manufactor
• Warren Soultrader + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Peregrin Took
• Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Academy Manufactor
• Warren Soultrader + Cauldron Familiar + Peregrin Took
• Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Ashnod's Altar
• Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Hazel's Brewmaster + Gilded Goose
• Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Academy Manufactor (or Night of the Sweets' Revenge) + Doubling Season
• Pitiless Plunderer + Cauldron Familiar + Academy Manufactor (or Peregrin Took) + Ashnod’s Altar (or Viscera Seer)
• Ygra, Eater of All + Experimental Confectioner + Savvy Hunter
• Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Academy Manufactor + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Peregrin Took
• Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser (or Experimental Confectioner) + Ashnod’s Altar (or Viscera Seer)

This might seem overwhelming, but a lot of them use the same play style: You need a sacrifice outlet and a source of sacrifice fodder to keep the engine going, and cards that add extra tokens when you make other tokens can turn ethanol into jet fuel.

Blood Artist and similar cards turn most of these combos into instant wins. Note that Marionette Apprentice and Mirkwood Bats don’t replace Blood Artist and friends in the Warren Soultrader combos because they don’t give you the life you need to pay into the Soultrader, but they still help to drain the table of life if you have any of the right combos online.

A Scavenger's Talent that’s at level 2 can mill out your opponents if you have it alongside most of these combos. Ravenous Squirrel, Honored Dreyleader, and Rapacious Guest can join Ygra as very big creatures, and you can sacrifice Rapacious Guest once it’s big enough to take out an opponent.

Some of these combos are less straightforward than others, though, like Camellia, the Seedmiser alongside Peregrin Took, Hazel's Brewmaster, and Gilded Goose. If you exile Gilded Goose from your graveyard with Hazel's Brewmaster, it essentially turns all your food permanents into Treasure tokens. Start with an untapped Food token (or food creature without summoning sickness). Sacrifice it to its new activated ability to generate mana of any color. With Camellia and Peregrin Took on the battlefield, you get a Squirrel token and a new Food token. Sacrifice the new Food to keep the combo going for infinite mana of any color and infinite Squirrel tokens. With Ygra on the battlefield, you can also use some of those Squirrel tokens to draw from Peregrin Took’s sacrifice outlet or put +1/+1 counters on your other Squirrels with Camellia’s.

Rule 0 Violations Check

This deck has a bunch of combos that can end the game with the right setup, and that can be a sticking point at low power tables. If you run into any issues, you can take out Chatterfang and Peregrin Took to break up most of the more egregious combos and bring down the Bracket from a 4 to a 3. Just don’t replace either of them with an Ivy Lane Denizen or a Scurry Oak and you should be okay.

Budget Options

To trim this deck’s price, start in the mana base. I personally don’t like to pay more than about $2 for duals; any “expensive” duals I have are due to a compulsive need to buy a couple boosters whenever I’m in my LGS and some silly good pack luck. Overgrown Tomb, Undergrowth Stadium, and Deathcap Glade are the worst offenders in this list, followed by Vernal Fen. You can swap them out for whatever you have on hand. Nature's Lore is the only card that fetches nonbasic lands, so it usually won’t matter that much if none of your duals are fetchable.

Gyome, Master Chef was only printed in Commander 2021, and there have been a few commanders that have been reprinted since then that want to recruit it. Aside from the bursts of Food tokens, it gives you a repeatable indestructible enabler. Heroic Intervention is in a similar boat as a staple green card. Tyvar's Stand and Tamiyo's Safekeeping are one-time effects, but they’re a fraction of the price on the singles market.

Nuka-Cola Vending Machine goes infinite with Peregrin Took and it adds infinite mana to some of your other combos, but it’s not necessary for this deck to function. Same goes for Doubling Season, which is more of a win-more card here.

Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos turn your infinite combos into guaranteed removal, since an edict gets around shroud, hexproof, and indestructible. Blasphemous Edict can sub in, though I know I’d only use it after my own board is wide enough to save at least Ygra from it.

I only included Phoenix Fleet Airship because I have a copy and wanted to play it somewhere, but it isn’t necessary. If you want to keep up the deck’s combo potential and slash the budget, Scurry Oak and Ivy Lane Denizen work just fine. Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER isn’t necessary either; Vengeful Bloodwitch can replace it. Dark Ritual isn’t the most expensive card, but it isn’t at its best in this deck. You can replace it with a Farseek or even just a basic land if you want.

The Cabbage Merchant can come out in favor of Greta, Sweettooth Scourge. You lose a lot of the Food token generation, but you get different forms of utility and slash into the deck’s price. Worldly Tutor isn’t needed if you don’t want Game Changers in your deck, while you can replace Malakir Rebirth with a basic Swamp.

Warren Soultrader and Ashnod's Altar are harder to cut because they’re key pieces to many of your combos. You can cut them if you don’t mind that you also tune the deck down to a lower power level.

Other Builds

Ygra, Eater of All is remarkably flexible. Just for fun, I put together an Ygra Earthbend decklist just to see if it was possible, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out (yes, I did forget to include a Druid Class). You’ll want more lands than you usually might play, and proliferate effects can help to grow your animated lands before you attack with them.

You could make different variations of the deck that focus on Food cards from the Eldraine sets or Tales of Middle-earth, or pretty much any Golgari sacrifice theme. It works very nicely alongside the squirrels from Bloomburrow given how the forage mechanic asks you to sacrifice a food if you don’t exile cards from your graveyard.

You can also build an Ygra deck that focuses on the +1/+1 counters to pile them on as quickly as possible, using cards like The Ozolith to protect your investment.

Commanding Conclusion

Hunt the Weak | Illustration by Mathias Kollros

Gee, I’m getting a lil peckish. That’ll teach me to write about a food deck so close to dinner time. Ygra, Eater of All is such an oppressive threat, a card that impacts the board and makes your opponents think twice about casting an overloaded Vandalblast.

Which cards do you play in your Ygra deck? Which of these cards would you take out, and which ones will you add to your own deck? Let me know in the comments below or over on the Draftsim Discord.

Until next time, stay hungry! For victory, of course.