Charnel Troll

In Commander, Charnel Troll slots into graveyard-heavy black-green builds where self-mill and sacrifice engines guarantee a steady food supply — without consistent graveyard density, the exile cost becomes a liability fast. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes in aggressive Golgari midrange shells where the two-mana 3/3-with-upside body is genuinely rate-efficient, though the mandatory upkeep sacrifice makes it a liability in grind matchups where graveyard resources thin out. Legacy has better options at the same slot, and Vintage doesn't care about a two-mana beater. Charnel Troll is at its best in any 60-card format that pairs it with dedicated self-mill to ensure the upkeep trigger never misfires.