Maniacal Rage

The two-mana stat boost that asks you to give something up. A +2/+2 aura costing two mana is a fine rate by the math of its era, and the can't-block clause is the tax that pays for it: the design says you can have the aggressive body, but the creature wearing this is committed to the attack and offers nothing on defense. That is a coherent trade for a beatdown deck, where the enchanted creature was never going to block anyway, and a real liability the moment the board stalls. The deeper structural cost is the one every aura carries: this is a card and a creature bundled into a single point of removal, so a one-for-one answer to the body strips both. Wizards has circled this exact bargain for decades, pairing a stat pump with a defensive restriction to keep the rate honest: Rancor leans on trample and recursion instead, while later aggressive auras lean on protection or evasion. Maniacal Rage represents the blunt early version of the idea, the trade stated plainly with nothing to soften the downside. The flavor lands cleanly on the mechanic, too: a creature whipped into a rage swings harder and forgets to defend itself.