Challenger Troll
Creature — Troll
Each creature you control with power 4 or greater can't be blocked by more than one creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #11833
Challenger Troll forces a blocker assignment every combat — your biggest creature gets through or your opponent burns a blocker to stop it, and in a Zilortha, Strength Incarnate deck where everything has effectively zero power requirement for trample, that pressure compounds fast. It's a four-mana 5/3 with a relevant, repeatable ability, and in the right shell that's a straightforward include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate
Zilortha, Strength Incarnate turns every creature's toughness into the blocking requirement, so pairing that with Challenger Troll's mandatory blocker demand means opponents are routinely forced to throw a creature in front of something they simply cannot survive — over half of Zilortha decks run it for exactly this reason.
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma already pushes big creatures through with its built-in power boost and trample grant, and Challenger Troll's challenge ability pre-selects a target before blockers are even declared, letting Goreclaw's pump finish what the Troll starts.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Challenger Troll is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play in the 60-card formats has no appetite for a four-mana 5/3 with a situational combat trick — it simply doesn't survive contact with the speed of those metas. Commander is where it actually functions: multiplayer combat is messy, blockers are plentiful, and a repeatable forced-block effect on a body this large creates genuine decision pressure every turn. In Oathbreaker it's the same story on a smaller stage — playable in the right signature spell shell, irrelevant outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Challenger Troll is deep bulk — you're paying pennies for a card that fills a real role in the right Commander deck. Bulk rares with narrow applications don't climb without a sudden spike in format demand, so treat it as a cheap pickup and nothing more.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.