Peregrin Took
Legendary Creature — Halfling Citizen
LegalCard DrawRank #777
If one or more tokens would be created under your control, those tokens plus an additional Food token are created instead. (It's an artifact with ", 
, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sacrifice three Foods: Draw a card.
2/3
KeywordsFood
Why is this card good?
Peregrin Took quietly turns any token strategy into a Food engine, and that's better than it looks.
The doubling-into-Food clause triggers on any token creation — Saprolings, Treasures, Clues, Soldiers, even tokens of other tokens. Every wide swing or value engine now also stocks Food, which Peregrin converts into raw card advantage at three Food per draw. In green token decks that flood the board constantly, that's a steady, repeatable refill that doesn't cost you a card.
Best homes: Food-matters commanders (Gyome, Korvold-adjacent sacrifice shells), token-go-wide builds, and Selesnya/Golgari decks that already make piles of tokens. Aristocrats lists love the lifegain and sac fodder. It's also a fine cheap support piece in any +1/+1 counter or populate deck since it greens up your token output.
Skip it if your deck doesn't make tokens regularly — Peregrin does nothing on its own and the draw outlet is too slow without a real token base. It's a payoff, not an enabler, so it needs the engine already built around it.
Related cards
Doubling Season
Doubles tokens including Food, supercharging token-based engines.
Parallel Lives
Doubles all token creation, generating extra Food.
Trail of Crumbs
Sacrifice Food to dig, similar Food card advantage engine.
Cauldron Familiar
Recurs by sacrificing Food, leveraging abundant Food tokens.
Witch's Oven
Reliable Food token producer for sacrifice synergies.
Academy Manufactor
Turns Food creation into Treasure and Clue tokens too.
Printings (4)
Combos (8)
- Peregrin Took + Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite tapped Treasure tokens
- Peregrin Took + Experimental Confectioner
→ Infinite card draw, Infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite creature tokens
- Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Hazel's Brewmaster + Gilded Goose
→ Infinite ETB, Infinite lifegain triggers, Infinite lifegain
- Ygra, Eater of All + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Academy Manufactor + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Peregrin Took
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
- Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Warren Soultrader + Peregrin Took
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite colored mana
- Camellia, the Seedmiser + Peregrin Took + Ashnod's Altar
→ Infinite LTB, Infinite ETB, Infinite sacrifice triggers
Tokens & Emblemsthis card creates
Rulings (7)
- 2024-11-08
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).
- 2024-11-08
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 2024-11-08
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.
- 2024-11-08
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- 2023-06-16
The additional Food tokens won't have any abilities the other tokens were created with. Anything else specified in the effect creating the token (such as tapped or "Exile that token at end of combat") applies to both the original tokens and the Food.
- 2023-06-16
You don't need to control the spell or ability that creates the tokens, but you do have to be the one creating the tokens for Peregrin Took's ability to apply.
- 2023-06-16
Peregrin Took's first ability applies to all kinds of tokens that its controller creates, not just Food tokens.