Ragost, Deft Gastronaut

Ragost is a 2-mana Boros commander that converts all your artifacts into Foods (adding a sacrifice outlet/lifegain ability to each), then lets you sacrifice any Food for {1}{T} to deal 3 damage to each opponent, and untaps itself whenever you gain life. This creates a self-sustaining loop: sacrifice an artifact-Food to gain 3 life → untap Ragost → sacrifice another → ping opponents repeatedly. Signature in Boros lifegain, food-matters, and aristocrats/artifact-sacrifice shells; conflicts with voltron (sacrificing artifacts kills equipment) and control (too combo-centric and creature-reliant).

• Ragost's static ability retroactively makes ALL artifacts Foods — this includes mana rocks, equipment, and other utility artifacts, giving them a sacrifice outlet even if that is normally undesirable in voltron or equipment shells.

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• The untap trigger fires at EACH end step (including opponents'), meaning if you can gain life on an opponent's turn (e.g. via an artifact-Food sacrifice in response to something), you untap Ragost for additional activations even outside your own turn.

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• In a deck with many cheap artifacts, Ragost can chain multiple 3-damage pings in a single turn by gaining life from one sacrifice, untapping, and repeating — this can function as a lethal combo with enough sacrifice fodder and a way to gain life between activations.

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• EDHREC rank: #5,679

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