Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct
Trample
Traxos enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.
Whenever you cast a historic spell, untap Traxos. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Magic Online Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #3929
Traxos, Scourge of Kroog is a 7/7 trampler for four mana — one of the best stats-per-cost ratios on a legendary creature — but it enters tapped and stays tapped unless you cast a historic spell each turn. In artifact-heavy or legendary-dense shells like Aloy, Savior of Meridian, where you're already casting artifacts and historic spells every turn, the drawback functionally disappears; in a casual goodstuff pile that leans on Sensei's Divining Top as its only artifact, it's a 7/7 that rarely attacks.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Aloy, Savior of Meridian
Aloy, Savior of Meridian triggers off artifacts and historic spells constantly, which means Traxos, Scourge of Kroog untaps nearly every turn — it's the most natural home for a card that needs a steady stream of historic activity to function.
Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought runs a dense artifact gameplan, and Traxos, Scourge of Kroog slots in as a cheap, massive threat that gets unlocked by the same spells already powering the engine.
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year
Abigale, Eloquent First-Year cares about historic spells, so Traxos, Scourge of Kroog doubles as both a payoff and a reason to keep casting the artifacts and legendary spells that define the deck's gameplan.
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity
Meria, Scholar of Antiquity taps and untaps noncreature artifacts for value, and Traxos, Scourge of Kroog benefits from being surrounded by the constant artifact casting that Meria's engine demands to function.
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider generates artifacts and cares about historic permanents, giving Traxos, Scourge of Kroog a reliable untap trigger while adding a substantial threat the deck's otherwise modest board presence often lacks.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Traxos, Scourge of Kroog is strictly a synergy card — it's one of the most efficient bodies available at four mana, but it only earns its slot in decks that cast historic spells (artifacts, legendaries, Sagas) multiple times per turn cycle, which describes a real and popular archetype. In Legacy and Vintage, the historic requirement is nearly trivial given the density of artifact mana, but a 7/7 trampler without evasion isn't competing for slots against the formats' actual threats, so it sees essentially zero play there. Modern and Pioneer are in the same boat: the statline is theoretically attractive, but without a dedicated historic shell, the untap condition is unreliable, and neither format has built a home for it. Commander is definitively where Traxos, Scourge of Kroog lives.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Traxos, Scourge of KroogSensei's Divining TopParadise MantleMystic Forge
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Traxos, Scourge of KroogSensei's Divining TopParadise MantleExperimental Frenzy
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Traxos, Scourge of KroogSensei's Divining TopParadise MantleThe Reality Chip
Infinite card draw; Infinite draw triggers; Near-infinite storm count
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Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Traxos, Scourge of Kroog isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for current market prices before buying. Given its niche role as a synergy piece in artifact and historic-matter Commander decks, it has historically sat in the budget-to-low-value range — worth picking up if you're building the right shell, but not a card to speculate on.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.