Aggressive Negotiations
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it and exile that card. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #15530
Aggressive Negotiations hands you a free Chaos Warp effect stapled to an immediate combat trick — your creature gets +2/+0 and first strike until end of turn, and then you exile the top card of target opponent's library and may cast it until your next end step. The cost is real: you need a creature swinging to trigger it, and the card you exile is pure variance.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aggressive Negotiations is a Commander card in practice — the combination of situational combat buff and random card advantage fits the chaotic, multiplayer-friendly design space better than any focused competitive format. In Legacy, Modern, or Pioneer, paying three mana for a conditional buff plus a coin-flip on someone else's library is simply not viable when your deck demands consistency. In Standard it's legal but competes against far more reliable three-mana plays. Pauper is where it gets mildly interesting as a common, since the card-advantage ceiling is reachable at that power level, but the attack requirement still limits it. Commander is the correct home: Aggressive Negotiations rewards aggro-slanted red decks that are already attacking and want to generate incremental advantage off opponents' libraries.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Aggressive Negotiations is deep bulk — you're paying under a dime for a card with a genuine upside ceiling in the right shell. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price rarely move unless a competitive format breaks them, and nothing about this card's design points there, so don't expect appreciation.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.