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Golgari Grave-Troll

Creature — Troll Skeleton

This creature enters with a +1/+1 counter on it for each creature card in your graveyard.
{1}, Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: Regenerate this creature.
Dredge 6 (If you would draw a card, you may mill six cards instead. If you do, return this card from your graveyard to your hand.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{4}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
rare
Set
Ravnica Remastered
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#2537
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Golgari Grave-Troll card art
Golgari Grave-Troll enters as one of the largest creatures on the board for its cost, scaling with every creature in your graveyard and doubling as a dredge engine that refills that graveyard on command. The dredge 6 clause is the real draw — few cards move this much cardboard into the bin this efficiently, which is exactly why The Mycotyrant and graveyard-centric builds prize it far above something like Benthic Biomancer. If you're building around the graveyard, this is not a flex slot.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern banned
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage restricted
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Golgari Grave-Troll carries two restrictions worth naming: it's banned in Modern and restricted in Vintage, both consequences of dredge 6 warping those formats' games before they get going. In Legacy it remains legal but is kept honest by the format's speed and hate density. Commander gives it a pass for two structural reasons — you only get one copy anyway (matching Vintage's restriction by default), and graveyard hate is widespread enough at most tables that the self-mill engine rarely runs unchecked. The result is a powerful but fair role-player in Commander rather than the format-warping engine it becomes in 60-card contexts.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
The Mycotyrant

The Mycotyrant

57.8% of decks · synergy 0.52

The Mycotyrant wants as many creature cards hitting the graveyard as possible to fuel fungal token generation, and Golgari Grave-Troll's dredge 6 is among the fastest ways to make that happen every turn.

02
Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis

58.2% of decks · synergy 0.52

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis convokes and delves itself into play from the graveyard, so Golgari Grave-Troll serves double duty — binning creatures to reduce Hogaak's casting cost while growing into a substantial threat of its own.

03
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

52.8% of decks · synergy 0.47

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord gets +1/+1 for each creature in your graveyard and can sacrifice creatures to drain opponents, making Golgari Grave-Troll both a massive sac outlet target and a self-refilling body that keeps the graveyard count high.

04
The Gitrog Monster

The Gitrog Monster

45.7% of decks · synergy 0.40

The Gitrog Monster draws a card whenever a land hits the graveyard, and Golgari Grave-Troll's dredge 6 mills through lands at a rate that turns each activation into several card draws — a core piece of the Gitrog combo engine.

05
Nethroi, Apex of Death

Nethroi, Apex of Death

40.6% of decks · synergy 0.37

Nethroi, Apex of Death mutates and reanimates creatures with total power 10 or less from your graveyard, and Golgari Grave-Troll — a zero-power creature by base — is a clean loop target that also spent the early game loading the bin for Nethroi's mutate trigger.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Golgari Grave-Troll has seen multiple reprints across premium and budget products alike, which has kept its price accessible relative to its power level. Live pricing isn't available here, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market — but historically it sits well below $5 in most printings, making it an easy pickup for any graveyard build.

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