Honor Troll is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Vigilance If you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 1 instead. This creature gets +2/+1 as long as you have 25 or more life.
How it works : Honor Troll
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
If you control two Honor Trolls and you would gain life, you gain that much life plus 2. A third Honor Troll has you gain that much life plus 3, and so on.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
The middle ability of Honor Troll applies just once to each life-gaining event, whether it's 1 life from Impassioned Orator or 4 life from Dawning Angel. If you gain an amount of life "for each" of something or "equal to the number" of something, that life is gained as one event and the ability of Honor Troll applies only once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Each creature with lifelink dealing combat damage causes a separate life-gaining event. For example, if two creatures you control with lifelink deal combat damage at the same time, Honor Troll's second ability will apply twice. However, if a single creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage to multiple creatures, players, and/or planeswalkers at the same time (perhaps because it has trample or was blocked by more than one creature), the ability will apply only once.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If Honor Troll is dealt damage and your life total is increased above 25 before state-based actions are performed (most likely because Honor Troll is dealt combat damage at the same time that a creature you control with lifelink deals combat damage), Honor Troll's last ability applies before checking whether it's destroyed for having lethal damage marked on it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Because damage remains marked on a creature until it's removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to Honor Troll may become lethal if your life total drops below 25 during that turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, life gained by your teammate won't cause Honor Troll's second ability to apply, even though it will cause your team's life total to increase.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
In multiplayer formats where your life total doesn't start at 20, Honor Troll's last ability still applies if your life total is 25 or more.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
In a Two-Headed Giant game, Honor Troll's last ability applies as long as your team's life total is 25 or more.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Aetherflux Reservoir + Purity + Honor Troll
- 1Activate Aetherflux Resevoir by paying 50 life, targeting yourself, but instead preventing the damage and causing you to gain 51 life due to Purity.
- 2Repeat an arbitrarily large number of times.
- 3Activate Aetherflux Resevoir by paying 50 life, dealing 50 damage to any target.
- 4Repeat step 3 as desired.
Trudge Garden + Healer of the Pride + Prize Pig + Mana Reflection
- 1Cause a creature to enter the battlefield under your control.
- 2Healer of the Pride triggers, holding priority, activate Prize Pig by tapping it, adding
. - 3Resolve the Healer of the Pride trigger, causing you to gain 3 life due to Honor Troll.
- 4Prize Pig and Trudge Garden trigger.
- 5Resolve the Prize Pig trigger, putting three ribbon counters of Prize Pig, then removing all ribbon counters from Prize Pig and untapping it.
- 6Resolve the Trudge Garden trigger, causing you to pay to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
- 7Repeat from step 2.
Trudge Garden + Healer of the Pride + Prize Pig + Leyline of Abundance
- 1Cause a creature to enter the battlefield under your control.
- 2Healer of the Pride triggers, holding priority, activate Prize Pig by tapping it, adding
. - 3Leyline of Abundance triggers, adding
. - 4Resolve the Healer of the Pride trigger, causing you to gain 3 life due to Honor Troll.
- 5Prize Pig and Trudge Garden trigger.
- 6Resolve the Prize Pig trigger, putting three ribbon counters of Prize Pig, then removing all ribbon counters from Prize Pig and untapping it.
- 7Resolve the Trudge Garden trigger, causing you to pay to create a 4/4 Fungus Beast creature token.
- 8Repeat from step 2.
Legal formats
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