Trestle Troll
Creature — Troll
Defender
Reach (This creature can block creatures with flying.)
: Regenerate this creature.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BG
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Return to Ravnica
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26022
Trestle Troll is a 2/3 reach, regenerating blocker for three mana that does exactly one thing well: it sits on the ground and dares attackers to run into it. The cost is that it does nothing else — no ETB, no upside, just a speed bump that better cards outclass at every bracket.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Trestle Troll is a fringe Pauper consideration at best, where cheap, durable blockers occasionally matter in stall-heavy matchups — but even there, more efficient commons crowd it out. In Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, and Vintage, three mana for a vanilla-adjacent wall is simply unplayable. Commander is where Trestle Troll is most frequently slotted, usually in beginner lists, but 99-card deckbuilding demands cards that advance a game plan, and a regenerating blocker that can't attack meaningfully does not.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Trestle Troll sits firmly in bulk territory and has no realistic path out of it. Pick it up if a build genuinely needs it, but don't expect the price to mean anything — it reflects the card's power level accurately.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.