Waking the Trolls
Enchantment — Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Destroy target land.
II — Put target land card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.
III — Choose target opponent. If they control fewer lands than you, create a number of 4/4 green Troll Warrior creature tokens with trample equal to the difference.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaldheim Promos
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #13718
Waking the Trolls turns every land an opponent loses into a 4/4 troll token on your side — the swing in board presence can end games. Six mana is real, but this is a build-around payoff, not an incidental include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Svella, Ice Shaper
Svella, Ice Shaper's activated ability can cast Waking the Trolls for free off the top of the library, and the Gruul color identity lines up perfectly with a landfall-adjacent strategy that wants to punish opponents for every fetchland crack and strip mine.
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 |
Waking the Trolls lives and dies in Commander, where land destruction is common enough — Strip Mine, Wasteland, Field of the Dead getting nuked — to generate multiple triggers across a long game. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it's legal but functionally irrelevant; six mana for a conditional token engine doesn't compete in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it could see fringe play, paired with a planeswalker that accelerates into the late game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Waking the Trolls is deep bulk — pick it up without hesitation if the deck wants it. Bulk rares that are legal in competitive formats but do nothing there rarely spike, so expect this price floor to hold.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Svella, Ice Shaper
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.