Archetype of Aggression
Enchantment Creature — Human Warrior
Creatures you control have trample.
Creatures your opponents control lose trample and can't have or gain trample.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $4.55
- EDHREC rank
- #2857
Archetype of Aggression hands your whole team trample and strips it from every opponent's creatures simultaneously — that double-axis effect on a 3/2 body for three mana is the rare enchantment creature that actually earns its slot. Gornog, the Red Reaper in particular converts that trample grant into a near-unblockable damage engine, and the math shifts fast.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Gornog, the Red Reaper
Gornog, the Red Reaper triggers off excess combat damage, and Archetype of Aggression ensures that excess is real — trample means blockers can't absorb the whole hit, so Gornog's ability fires consistently rather than getting stonewalled by a single 1/1.
General Marhault Elsdragon
General Marhault Elsdragon already rewards attacking with rampage, and Archetype of Aggression piles trample on top, turning what would be a minor stat bump into damage that actually lands.
Kratos, God of War
Kratos, God of War wants to push through damage and punish blockers, and Archetype of Aggression removes the clean chump-block option opponents would otherwise lean on to neutralize him.
Nikya of the Old Ways
Nikya of the Old Ways builds boards full of large creatures that opponents can trade with one-for-one, and Archetype of Aggression converts that size advantage into guaranteed damage by making trample the default.
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant cares about pushing through combat damage reliably, and Archetype of Aggression strips opposing trample-denial while ensuring Clive's team converts every block into overflow damage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Archetype of Aggression does its best work — three players worth of creatures lose trample simultaneously, which is a meaningful battlefield tax in a format full of go-wide token strategies that otherwise chump forever. In Modern and Pioneer it's too slow and too fragile for competitive play; a three-mana enchantment creature that doesn't immediately win the board gets answered before it matters. Legacy and Vintage have access to faster, more redundant trample enablers, so Archetype of Aggression doesn't make the cut there either. Oathbreaker is the one adjacent format where it sees occasional play, again in aggressive creature shells that want the blanket effect.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$4.55 cheap tier
At $4.55, Archetype of Aggression sits at the high end of cheap without crossing into mid-tier — reasonable for a card with consistent Commander demand and no obvious reprint pressure looming. It holds that price because the effect is unique enough that there's no strict budget substitute doing the same double-sided trample work.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Gornog, the Red Reaper
- General Marhault Elsdragon
- Kratos, God of War
- Nikya of the Old Ways
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.