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Waves of Aggression

Sorcery

Untap all creatures that attacked this turn. After this main phase, there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.
Retrace (You may cast this card from your graveyard by discarding a land card in addition to paying its other costs.)

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{R/W}{R/W}
Color identity
RW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source Material
Price
$1.96
EDHREC rank
#9530
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Waves of Aggression card art
Waves of Aggression grants an additional combat phase for the cost of discarding a land — and can be retraceable from the graveyard as many times as you have lands to pitch. Narset, Enlightened Master turns it into a near-infinite combat loop when she's attacking, and Kirri, Talented Sprout rewards every extra swing with more land drops to fuel the next cast.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Narset, Enlightened Master

Narset, Enlightened Master

21.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Narset, Enlightened Master is one of the most natural homes for Waves of Aggression because her attack trigger exiles noncreature spells for free, meaning she can chain extra combats without ever paying the discard cost — just retracing from the yard becomes academic when the card is free in the first place.

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General Ferrous Rokiric

General Ferrous Rokiric

18.8% of decks · synergy 0.17

General Ferrous Rokiric churns out Golem tokens whenever you cast a multicolored spell, and Waves of Aggression is multicolored — so each retraced copy off a land pitch produces another attacker before the new combat even begins, compounding the board state with every swing.

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

Waves of Aggression is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but in practice it lives almost exclusively in Commander. In Modern and Legacy, paying two mana plus a land to get one extra combat is too slow against interaction-dense fields, and without a commander-level engine to exploit the retrace loop the card just trades resources at a net loss. Commander is where the retrace mechanic shines: longer games mean more lands in hand, and combat-centric commanders can weaponize each additional attack step in ways that close games outright. Oathbreaker is a functional home if your planeswalker and signature spell can abuse the extra combat, but the card sees minimal play there compared to its Commander presence.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$1.96 cheap tier

At $1.96, Waves of Aggression sits at the low end of the price range for a card that can singlehandedly win games in the right shell. That price is stable — it's not a chase rare, but the retrace mechanic keeps demand steady enough that it's unlikely to crater further.

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