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Honor Troll

Creature — Troll Druid

Vigilance
If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead.
This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{G}
Color identity
G
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Strixhaven: School of Mages
Price
$0.11
EDHREC rank
#13828
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Honor Troll card art
Honor Troll turns every life-gain trigger into a relevant board presence — a 3/3 regenerating body that grows with each soul counter and converts surplus life into stats, which makes it a natural fit alongside engines like Aetherflux Reservoir where life totals swing dramatically. The cost is a two-color pip requirement and a reliance on a life-gain shell; outside one, it's a vanilla troll.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant

18.4% of decks · synergy 0.18

Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant's entire game plan is accumulating life-gain triggers to reach 111 life, and Honor Troll both benefits from and fuels that count — every soul counter is a life-gain event that pushes Bilbo closer to the finish line while growing a blocker that threatens to become a serious attacker.

02
Dina, Soul Steeper

Dina, Soul Steeper

12.9% of decks · synergy 0.12

Dina, Soul Steeper pings opponents whenever you gain life, so Honor Troll's repeated counter triggers double as damage sources while keeping a sturdy regenerating body on board to protect Dina herself.

03
Beledros Witherbloom

Beledros Witherbloom

12.3% of decks · synergy 0.12

Beledros Witherbloom rewards decks that cycle life totals aggressively, and Honor Troll slots in as a recursive threat that scales off every payment — the regeneration clause also means it survives the board wipes common in Witherbloom midrange builds.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

In Commander, Honor Troll earns its slot in dedicated life-gain shells and nowhere else — the payoff is real but conditional, and a 99-card singleton format is exactly where conditional payoffs need to be reliably assembled. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes against faster and less color-demanding life-gain payoffs, so it sees essentially no play outside fringe brews. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to win before a soul-counter engine stabilizes, which keeps Honor Troll firmly on the bench there. Commander is its format, and within that format its ceiling is high if the commander supports it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.11 bulk tier

At $0.11, Honor Troll is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking about it. Bulk rares rarely spike unless a commander breaks them wide open, and the life-gain archetype has enough redundancy that Honor Troll is unlikely to become scarce.

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