Ragost, Deft Gastronaut – Edge of Eternities
Date Reviewed: August 15, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.30
Casual: 4.00
Limited: 3.40
Multiplayer: 3.75
Commander [EDH]: 4.00
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
Setting aside the hilarious typeline, Ragost, Deft Gastronaut is quite an intriguing little card, thanks to letting you weaponize any artifacts you have. He’s not a perfect outlet to weaponizing them, but throwing 3 damage each turn at an affordable rate can add up, and he can even do it repeatedly if you have a way to gain life (like with the food he turns things into). The caveat is that he himself doesn’t provide the materials to concoct your culinary masterpiece, but he’s pretty wily and can work with a lot of different things. There are definitely engines to weaponize Ragost, and I do think he’ll be a lot of fun…maybe not good, but definitely fun, and white and red are both able to make plenty of tokens that Ragost can use for his ultimate creation.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 3
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander [EDH]: 4
Thijs
Boros is known for its powerful combination of doing damage and letting you gain life, and Ragost is sort of the ultimate combination of the two. While he makes all your other artifacts Food tokens, he also lets you sacrifice those Foods to ping your opponents. I’m sorry, Lighting Bolt your opponents.
At a very low cost of one red and one white mana, it means you can cast this guy on turn 2. If you happen to also play some zero-mana artifacts, like Ornithopter or a Mishra’s Bauble, you’re in for a treat.
Unfortunately the ability doesn’t immediately activate itself, since you have to sacrifice the Food for the other ability, but don’t let that spoil the fun that this gourmet chef can bring to the table.
It’s a card without any big surprises or hidden meanings, it’s exactly what he puts on the plate that you and your opponents will taste. Straightforward, honest and powerful. If that is not Boros in a nutshell, I don’t know what is.
Constructed: 3,6
Casual: 4
Limited: 3,8
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
Why not Zoidberg? . . . No, wait, that series got cancelled – and then un-cancelled for like the eighth time. It’s also owned by a completely different company, and even if it wasn’t, Zoidberg was a terrible cook and Ragost is a very good one. He’s got to be, if he can turn literally anything into something that actually gains you life and use it to dominate tables besides. He’s quite flexible in terms of use, able to get cute with generating other kinds of tokens (since red is not a big Food color) and equally able to attack efficiently and honestly and throw random objects at opponents. You definitely need a certain number of artifacts in your deck before adding him to your mana curve, but that’s nowhere near as hard as it used to be, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he finds a deck in constructed.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.5
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander [EDH]: 3.5
As far as I’m concerned, Futurama‘s last episode is “The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings”. Anything else is just a curiosity.
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