First printed in Ixalan (2017)
All 3 prints
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Ixalan Promos (PXLN) #42p, 2017
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Ixalan Promos (PXLN) #42s, 2017
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Ixalan (XLN) #42, 2017
Tocatli Honor Guard 
Creature — Human Soldier
Creatures entering don't cause abilities to trigger.
The glorious city of Pachatupa is the center of the Sun Empire, and Tocatli, the emperor's palace, is its glowing heart.
1/3
- Illustrated by
- Sara Winters
Legality
- Legal in
- Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Tiny Leaders, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Standard Brawl
Rulings (6)
- Replacement effects, such as a permanent entering the battlefield tapped or with counters on it, are unaffected. Abilities that apply “as [this creature] enters the battlefield” are replacement effects.
- Tocatli Honor Guard’s ability stops a creature’s own enters-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that would trigger when a creature enters the battlefield. This includes abilities that would trigger when Tocatli Honor Guard itself enters the battlefield.
- Triggered abilities use the word “when,” “whenever,” or “at.” They’re usually written as “[Trigger condition], [effect].”
- If Tocatli Honor Guard and another creature enter the battlefield at the same time, neither creature entering the battlefield will cause triggered abilities to trigger.
- The trigger event doesn’t have to specify “creatures” entering the battlefield. For example, Contraband Kingpin has an ability that says “Whenever an artifact enters the battlefield under your control, scry 1.” If an artifact creature enters the battlefield under your control, that ability won’t trigger. If a noncreature artifact enters the battlefield under your control, the ability will trigger.
- Look at the permanent as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger. For example, if you control March of the Machines, which says, in part, “Each noncreature artifact is an artifact creature,” each artifact will be a creature at the time it enters the battlefield and will not cause triggered abilities to trigger.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 28 Oct 2026).
Combos
61 combos, the most popular first:
- Creatures do not untap, Lock: Intruder Alarm + Tocatli Honor Guard
- Infinite turns, Lock: Soulherder + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Roon of the Hidden Realm + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Conjurer's Closet + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Teleportation Circle + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Brago, King Eternal + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Abuelo, Ancestral Echo + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Mistmeadow Witch + Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta
- Infinite turns, Lock: Tocatli Honor Guard + Wormfang Manta + Y'shtola Rhul
