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Aragorn, the Uniter

Legendary Creature — Human Noble

Whenever you cast a white spell, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature token.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, scry 2.
Whenever you cast a red spell, Aragorn deals 3 damage to target opponent.
Whenever you cast a green spell, target creature gets +4/+4 until end of turn.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{R}{G}{W}{U}
Color identity
GRUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
Price
$7.80
EDHREC rank
#3339
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Aragorn, the Uniter card art
Aragorn, the Uniter is a four-color value engine that triggers on each color of spell you cast — white creates Soldiers, blue Scries, red bolts, and green pumps, all simultaneously when your spells overlap — and the Shrieking Drake loop turns that into a repeatable ping machine on a single infinite bounce. The ceiling is absurdly high for five mana, and Jodah, the Unifier treats Aragorn as one of the better legendary payoffs in the 99 thanks to both being four-color-plus legendary creatures that compound each other's triggers.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jodah, the Unifier

Jodah, the Unifier

24.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Jodah, the Unifier cascades into Aragorn, the Uniter for free and then watches every subsequent legendary spell trigger both commanders at once — Jodah's pump and Aragorn's color-based abilities stack on the same cast, turning each legendary spell into a board-wide event.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Aragorn, the Uniter actually lives — four colors is trivially supported in the format, and five mana is on-curve for the mid-game value turns where Aragorn starts churning out Soldiers, chip damage, and card selection simultaneously. As a commander itself, it incentivizes a four-color spells-matter build with a low curve; in the 99, it slots into any Jodah, the Unifier or Legendary-tribal shell without effort. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but doesn't compete — five mana for a value creature is unplayable in formats where the game often ends on turn one or two. Oathbreaker is the one other format where it could see fringe play, but the format's lower profile means most Aragorn fans just stay in Commander.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

Najeela, the Blade-Blossom offers a similar multi-trigger, multi-color reward structure for a single mana less and with a lower buy-in price, though she demands an aggro-warrior shell rather than a generic spells-matters build. If what you want from Aragorn, the Uniter is specifically the incremental value-per-spell cadence, Rienne, Angel of Rebirth or Esika, God of the Tree in their respective color ranges approximate the legendary-matters payoff at a fraction of the cost, with the trade-off being narrower color identity and no built-in burn.

Price Context

Current price

$7.80 mid tier

At $7.80, Aragorn, the Uniter sits in the mid tier — not a budget pickup, but not a barrier either for a card that pulls legitimate weight as both a commander and a 99 inclusion. Demand is stable given its unique four-color identity and combo ceiling, so the price is unlikely to crater barring a direct reprint.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.