Argivian Avenger
Artifact Creature — Shapeshifter
: Until end of turn, this creature gets -1/-1 and gains your choice of flying, vigilance, deathtouch, or haste.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #18763
Argivian Avenger lands on the battlefield and immediately punishes every opponent who controls a creature — each of them loses a creature or takes damage, no targeting required, no stack interaction. That kind of on-board pressure at a reasonable mana cost is real, and Trazyn the Infinite copying its triggered ability turns a one-time haymaker into a repeating threat.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Trazyn the Infinite
Trazyn the Infinite imprints Argivian Avenger and then replicates its enter-the-battlefield trigger every time Trazyn enters or a new creature enters under its effect, stacking forced-sacrifice or damage against every opponent at once and making the punishment nearly impossible to out-pace.
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 |
Argivian Avenger is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's a Commander card through and through — the effect scales directly with the number of opponents and the number of creatures on the board, which means a four-player pod extracts far more value than any 1v1 format ever would. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too slow and too conditional to compete with the raw power density of those formats. Modern and Pioneer have pushed their creature and removal suites well past the point where a single forced-sacrifice-or-damage trigger swings a game. Commander is where Argivian Avenger actually does what it promises.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Argivian Avenger is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a genuine multiplayer effect. Bulk rares with niche Commander appeal tend to stay flat unless a popular commander pushes demand, so don't expect the price to move meaningfully in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.