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Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Legendary Artifact Creature — Construct · {4} · Colorless commander
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.)
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What Traxos, Scourge of Kroog actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a historic spell, untap Traxos.
- Keyword · trampletrample
- AbilityTraxos enters tapped and doesn't untap during your untap step.
What a Traxos, Scourge of Kroog deck needs
Plays as historic cast trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- historic spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
The Traxos, Scourge of Kroog deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 33× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Dragon Throne of Tarkir4 mana
- Skyshaper2 mana
- Krang, Utrom Warlord9 mana
- Thunderhawk Gunship6 mana
A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Darksteel Citadel0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Gemstone Caverns0 mana
- Inventors' Fair0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
- Warping Wail2 mana
- Null Elemental Blast1 mana
- Zuko's Exile5 mana
- Clay Golem4 mana
- Lazotep Quarry0 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Shrine Steward5 mana
- Self-Assembler5 mana
- Pyre of Heroes2 mana
- Tamiyo's Journal5 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Nevinyrral's Disk4 mana
- Karn's Sylex3 mana
- Calamity of the Titans6 mana
- Apocalypse Chime2 mana
- The Moment2 mana
- Aligned Hedron Network4 mana
- Coercive Portal4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 mana
- Key to the City2 mana
- Mask of Memory2 mana
- Tome of Legends2 mana
- Buster Sword3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Traxos, Scourge of Kroog
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Traxos, Scourge of Kroog is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge + Paradise Mantle803 decks
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Retraction Helix675 decks
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Banishing Knack575 decks
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge + Relic Of Legends138 decks
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Sensei's Divining Top + Mystic Forge + Honor-Worn Shaku127 decks
- Traxos, Scourge of Kroog + Sensei's Divining Top + Experimental Frenzy + Paradise Mantle101 decks