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Notorious Throng

Kindred Sorcery — Rogue

Prowl {5}{U} (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Create X 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature tokens with flying, where X is the damage dealt to your opponents this turn. If this spell's prowl cost was paid, take an extra turn after this one.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Zendikar Rising Commander
Price
$3.45
EDHREC rank
#4036
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Notorious Throng card art
Notorious Throng can end a game on the spot — connect with enough Rogues, cast it for its prowl cost, generate a swarm of 1/1 tokens, and take an extra turn to crash in with all of them. The prowl cost is the price of admission, meaning you need a functional Rogue beatdown engine before this card does anything, but Anowon, the Ruin Thief builds exactly that engine, and Ghostly Flicker can't touch a sorcery you've already resolved — once it fires, it fires.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Anowon, the Ruin Thief

Anowon, the Ruin Thief

80.5% of decks · synergy 0.75

Anowon, the Ruin Thief is the definitive home for Notorious Throng — Anowon's mill trigger rewards connecting with Rogues every combat, so by the time you're threatening an extra turn, opponents have already lost chunks of their library and hand. The 80% inclusion rate reflects how cleanly Notorious Throng closes the game plan Anowon establishes.

02
Alela, Cunning Conqueror

Alela, Cunning Conqueror

56.4% of decks · synergy 0.51

Alela, Cunning Conqueror generates Faerie tokens on opponents' turns, and Faeries are Rogues, which means Alela can satisfy Notorious Throng's prowl condition without committing a dedicated Rogue package. The extra turn lets those newly minted tokens swing freely before opponents have a chance to rebuild their boards.

03
Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Edric, Spymaster of Trest

49.2% of decks · synergy 0.49

Edric, Spymaster of Trest rewards connecting with small evasive creatures, and Notorious Throng converts that same combat success into an extra turn — the two cards share identical preconditions. Half of Edric decks run it because the prowl cost is trivially met when your whole gameplan is already built around unblocked attackers.

04
Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist

45.2% of decks · synergy 0.39

Obyra, Dreaming Duelist deals damage whenever Faeries enter, then fills the board with Faerie tokens via combat damage triggers, making the Rogue-connecting threshold for Notorious Throng easy to hit. The extra turn becomes a second full damage wave off all those newly created bodies.

05
Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor

42.4% of decks · synergy 0.37

Tegwyll, Duke of Splendor draws a card whenever a Faerie dies and buffs the whole tribe, which supports the kind of wide, aggressive Faerie board that gets Notorious Throng's prowl cost online. Notorious Throng then rewards that aggression with an extra turn to press the advantage before opponents stabilize.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Notorious Throng is a Commander card — nearly every copy played anywhere is in a 100-card singleton deck built around a Rogue or Faerie commander. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, it sees no meaningful play: a five-mana sorcery with a conditional cost and a payoff measured in 1/1 tokens can't compete in formats where games end on turn one or two. Modern is the same story — the card is too slow and too dependent on a tribal setup that doesn't exist in competitive Modern shells. Commander is where the setup cost is affordable, the tribal synergies are deep enough to reliably hit prowl, and an extra turn at the end of a wide Rogue attack can simply win the game on the spot.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$3.45 cheap tier

At $3.45, Notorious Throng sits in a comfortable spot for what it does — it's a near-win-condition in its best decks and cheap enough that including it is an easy call. Demand is narrowly concentrated in Rogue and Faerie tribal Commander builds, so the price reflects genuine playability rather than speculation.

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