General Traag, Heart of Stone

TMT · uncommon · Released 2026-03-06

Power

brawl

trap→fringeFiller

commander

trapFillertrap

Tier shown as baseline → best-case (in its ideal shell).

Derived from the 7 atoms below.

on rate

incremental

minor value alone

synergy

wants support

caps

fixed effect

rigid

one mode

narrow

situational

sticky

hard to remove

Commander Bracket

1Precon2Core3Upgraded4Optimized5cEDH

Archetypes

positive:

aristocratsartifact-matters

negative:

No active conflicts.

Roles

midrange-threatetb-triggerping-damageremoval-artifactsacrifice-outletconditional-removal

Risks

requires-artifact-densityetb-onlyconditional-trigger

Mechanics

—

Typal

synergy:

elementalsoldier

anti:

—

Structural

triggered-ability

Rationale

General Traag is a 5cmc 4/3 trample artifact creature whose ETB lets you sacrifice another artifact to deal 4 damage to a target creature — efficient conditional removal stapled to a body. It slots into artifact-matters and aristocrats shells where sacrificing artifacts is incidental or valuable, but the damage is restricted to creatures only (not players), limiting its ceiling as removal.

Learnings (3)

General Traag's ETB is a reflexive triggered ability (sacrifice triggers a second trigger) — this means the sacrifice is optional but the damage only fires if you do sacrifice; the 4-damage hits creatures only, not players or planeswalkers, so it can't serve as face-burn.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
Being an artifact creature itself, Traag can technically enable other sacrifice synergies as the sacrificed permanent in a subsequent ETB, but it cannot sacrifice itself to its own trigger.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6
At 5 mana in mono-red, Traag competes with other red top-end threats; its value scales sharply with low-cost artifact fodder (Treasure tokens, Clue tokens, Thopters) since sacrificing a meaningful artifact can feel like card disadvantage.
tagging · claude-sonnet-4-6

Popularity

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