Is Feasting Troll King good in Commander?

Feasting Troll King

Creature — Troll Noble

Vigilance, trample
When this creature enters, if you cast it from your hand, create three Food tokens. (They're artifacts with ", , Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.")
Sacrifice three Foods: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate only during your turn.

CMC: 6
Mana cost
Color identity: G
Rarity: rare
Set: Throne of Eldraine
Price: $2.59
EDHREC rank: #7621

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Feasting Troll King puts a 7/6 vigilance, trample, lifelink body on the board for as little as three mana when you've got three Foods in play — and when it dies, you crack those Foods to bring it straight back. The catch is assembling the Food count, which is why it slots almost exclusively into dedicated Food engines like Witch's Oven or The Cabbage Merchant rather than general green stompy.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

The Cabbage Merchant

67.1% of decks · synergy 0.66

The Cabbage Merchant is the premier home for Feasting Troll King because the commander generates Food every time a creature enters or leaves, meaning the King's three-Food revival trigger is effectively always live and the free-cast threshold is trivial to reach.

Gyome, Master Chef

55.5% of decks · synergy 0.54

Gyome, Master Chef hands out a Food token to each creature you play on your turn, so Feasting Troll King routinely enters for free and returns from the graveyard without you devoting extra cards to Food generation.

The Goose Mother

34.8% of decks · synergy 0.34

The Goose Mother's Food tokens scale with the X on her enter trigger, giving Feasting Troll King a reliable supply of sacrifice fodder and making the King one of the cleanest top-end payoffs in that deck.

Samwise Gamgee

29.5% of decks · synergy 0.29

Samwise Gamgee creates a Food whenever a nontoken permanent returns from the graveyard, which means Feasting Troll King's self-resurrection literally triggers more Food production, creating a loop of resources with each death.

Ygra, Eater of All

14.0% of decks · synergy 0.12

Ygra, Eater of All turns every Food sacrifice into a life-drain effect, so Feasting Troll King's built-in recursion loop doubles as a repeatable drain engine — the King keeps dying, Ygra keeps punishing the table.

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

Feasting Troll King is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its competitive footprint outside Commander is minimal — seven mana at face value is simply too slow for formats where the game is decided by turn four. In Commander it earns its slot as a resilient, self-recurring threat in Food-themed decks, where the free-cast condition and graveyard loop make it a genuine engine piece rather than just a big creature. Oathbreaker can support it in the same Food shells, though the smaller life totals make the lifelink less impactful as a stabilizer.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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