General Traag, Heart of Stone

Legendary Artifact Creature — Elemental Soldier

Trample
When General Traag enters, you may sacrifice another artifact. When you do, General Traag deals 4 damage to target creature.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Price
$0.11
EDHREC rank
#26848
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General Traag, Heart of Stone turns every land you play into a 3/1 Dinosaur token with trample, which is a substantial rate of board presence for a five-mana commander. The cost is that the engine only fires on your land drops, so it stalls the moment you flood or miss.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Commander is where General Traag, Heart of Stone lives — a five-mana Gruul legend that demands land-synergy support is built for a 100-card singleton format with room for Exploration, Oracle of Mul Daya, and Azusa, Lost but Seeking. In 60-card formats like Modern, Pioneer, and Legacy, five mana for a vanilla-adjacent threat that doesn't immediately impact the board is a non-starter when those formats punish do-nothing turns at that cost. Standard legality is technically true, but the same problem applies at a smaller scale — five mana needs to win games on the spot, not generate 3/1s over subsequent turns. Oathbreaker is the one adjacent format where the land-drop engine could function, though the tighter card economy makes the payoff feel slower.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.11 bulk tier

At $0.11, General Traag, Heart of Stone is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a box rather than buy. That price reflects limited constructed demand, and there's no pressure driving it upward.

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    Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.