Vigorous Charge
Instant
Kicker 
(You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.)
Target creature gains trample until end of turn. Whenever that creature deals combat damage this turn, if this spell was kicked, you gain life equal to that damage.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GW
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Invasion
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #27377
Vigorous Charge gives your entire team trample for a single green mana at instant speed — that's a combat trick that punches through chump-block walls and closes games. Narrow in isolation, but in any go-wide token deck it converts a stalled board into lethal damage.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vigorous Charge earns its slot in go-wide strategies — one mana at instant speed to punch a token army through chump blockers is a genuine surprise closer. Pauper is its strongest competitive home, where common-powered aggro decks can exploit it as a finisher in Elf or token builds. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to support it but the power ceiling is high enough that it rarely makes the cut outside fringe token shells. Oathbreaker can leverage it similarly to Commander, especially under planeswalkers that generate wide boards quickly.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Vigorous Charge is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box without thinking twice. Demand is too narrow for the price to move meaningfully, so there's no urgency either way; just grab it when you need it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.