Shade of Trokair
Creature — Shade
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Suspend 3— (Rather than cast this card from your hand, you may pay and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost. It has haste.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #28592
Shade of Trokair is a passable early blocker that can grow into a real threat — but only if you're flooding white mana into it every turn, which is a steep ongoing tax. The suspend cost makes it cheap to deploy early, and a big flying shade can close games, but white pump spells and better threats have long since left it behind.
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 |
Shade of Trokair is a bulk common in every format that matters, and nowhere is that more apparent than Commander, where a 2/2 flyer with a mana-sink ability competes against threats that generate immediate value or win the game outright. In Pauper, the suspend line is at least interesting — a free-ish turn-one play that grows — but the format has enough cheap efficient creatures to make Shade of Trokair a fringe choice at best. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the card doesn't approach the power threshold those formats demand. If you're running it anywhere, Pauper is the only context where the suspend cost does real work.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Shade of Trokair is deep bulk — you're essentially paying for the cardboard. Don't expect that floor to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it upward.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.