Festival of Trokin
Sorcery
You gain 2 life for each creature you control.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Second Age
- Price
- $1.80
- EDHREC rank
- #22467
Festival of Trokin puts a 3/3 token on the board and gains you 3 life for three mana — passable rate, nothing more. It's a fine role-player in token-doubler or life-gain-matters shells, a cut in any deck that doesn't care about both halves.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Festival of Trokin competes in a crowded slot against more efficient token producers and life-gain payoffs, so it earns a seat only when you have synergies rewarding both outputs simultaneously. Pauper is where it looks best — at common, the combined body plus life swing is above-rate for the format's slower, grindier games. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; three mana for a 3/3 and 3 life doesn't register at those power levels. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic: run it if your signature spell or planeswalker cares about creature count or life totals, cut it otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.80 cheap tier
At $1.80, Festival of Trokin sits in the cheap tier — low enough that you're not making a meaningful budget sacrifice to try it. It's a bulk-rare price point, and there's no pressure driver likely to move it, so buy it if you want it and don't stress the cost.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.