Olog-hai Crusher
Creature — Troll Soldier
Trample
This creature can't block unless you control a Goblin or Orc.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #21850
Olog-hai Crusher is a five-mana 6/5 trampler with ward 2 — a body that hits hard and demands extra investment to answer. The rate is fine, but fine doesn't earn a slot in most Commander lists competing with cheaper threats that do more.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Olog-hai Crusher is a fringe inclusion at best — ward 2 and trample are real keywords, but a vanilla-adjacent 6/5 for five mana gets outclassed by nearly every comparable threat in green or black. Pauper is where Olog-hai Crusher actually has a case: commons at this size are scarce, and ward 2 is a meaningful protection layer in a removal-heavy format. In Legacy, Modern, and Vintage, it has no competitive application — those formats demand more text on the card for five mana.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Olog-hai Crusher sits firmly in bulk territory, and nothing about its power level suggests that changes. Pick it up freely for budget Pauper builds, but don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.