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Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

Legendary Creature — Elder Giant

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped.
Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life.
Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{B}{R}
Color identity
BR
Rarity
mythic
Set
Multiverse Legends
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#4726
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Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger card art
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger hits every opponent for forced discard and three life the moment it enters, and again every upkeep once it escapes — that's a repeatable tax engine stapled to a 6/6 threat. The escape cost is the real ask, but in black-red graveyard shells the fueling happens naturally, and the payoff eclipses lighter discard options like Zoyowa Lava-Tongue or anything short of Worldfire on the disruption scale.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

Zoyowa Lava-Tongue

46.6% of decks · synergy 0.44

Zoyowa Lava-Tongue's entire gameplan punishes opponents for holding cards, and Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger extends that pressure beyond combat — every upkeep trigger strips another card and drains three, compounding the damage-per-hand-size math Zoyowa Lava-Tongue is built to exploit.

02
Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate

33.2% of decks · synergy 0.31

Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate recurs creatures with two or less power from the graveyard, and Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger's 6/6 body sidesteps that restriction entirely — you run it for the escape engine, not the recursion, using the graveyard fuel Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate naturally generates through combat and sacrifice loops.

03
Chainer, Nightmare Adept

Chainer, Nightmare Adept

22.5% of decks · synergy 0.20

Chainer, Nightmare Adept lets you cast creatures from the graveyard and gives them haste, which pairs directly with Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger's enter-the-battlefield trigger — every escape gives you a fresh ETB hit, and Chainer, Nightmare Adept's discard outlet helps load the graveyard to hit escape threshold in the first place.

04

Kefka, Court Mage

21.5% of decks · synergy 0.19

Kefka, Court Mage rewards you for opponents losing life, turning Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger's upkeep drain into a consistent trigger engine — at nearly 25,000 decks, Kefka, Court Mage is the broadest home for Kroxa and the one where the three-life drain does the most political and mechanical work.

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

Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and it sees real play in the 60-card formats — Modern and Pioneer both have graveyard-fueled midrange shells that use Kroxa as a late-game inevitability engine after filling the yard through looting and self-mill. In Commander, the calculus shifts: a single-target discard trigger is weaker in a four-player pod, but the life drain scales with opponents, and once Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger escapes it becomes a recurring nuisance that demands an answer every turn. The sweet spot in Commander is any deck that fills its own graveyard as a byproduct of its main strategy — Rakdos sacrifice, reanimator, and madness builds all generate the five-card escape threshold without dedicating slots to enablers. Outside those shells, Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger is harder to justify at two mana up front plus the escape investment when that resource could close games faster.

Key Combos

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Kroxa, Titan of Death's HungerWorldfire

Kroxa, Titan of Death's HungerWorldfire

Each opponent loses the game; Exile all cards in hands and graveyards; Exile all permanents; Near-infinite lifeloss; Mass Land Denial

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Price Context

Current price

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Pricing data isn't available in the current feed for Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live number before buying. It has historically sat in the $10–20 range given its cross-format playability, so budget accordingly if you're picking it up for a graveyard Commander build.

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