Aegar, the Freezing Flame does not trample in the traditional sense, instead, rewarding the player with cards for 'overkilling' targets.That said, Toralf is the source of the secondary damage. Toralf, God of Fury lets noncombat sources trample, not only to the player, but to other targets as well (e.g.Flame Spill won't trigger Aegar or Toralf. This is most relevant as they can stack effects, but the above trample spells would not trigger i.e. The rest of the cards do not use a replacement effect for their excess damage effect. Ram Through is a bite spell, so the creature ends up dealing noncombat damage.Flame Spill and Pigment Storm are classic 'trampling burn'.Flame Spill was later printed in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths essentially spelling out the reminder text of Super-Duper Death Ray - the phrase 'excess damage' was deemed sufficiently clear enough for players that it has been introduced into more designs, with more outputs than merely damage: In the silver-bordered set Unstable, Trample appeared for the first time on a non-creature spell ( Super-Duper Death Ray) because, ostensibly, putting trample on spells was not possible to be parsed through the black-border rules and Design had conceded that it never would. The first attempt to introduce trample on a spell came with Liquid Fire, which by most accounts failed, and had to morph into its current unwieldy phrasing. When Dominaria abandoned the Planeswalker redirection rule, the reminder text was changed to This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking. In Unstable, the keyword featured on Super-Duper Death Ray (an instant direct damage spell) with a new adapted reminder text (This spell can deal excess damage to its target's controller.) There was no change to how trample worked, the reminder text was just changed for clarity and brevity. Starting with Magic Origins, it gained a new reminder text: Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to defending player or planeswalker while attacking.). The Ninth Edition reminder text read: Trample (If this creature would assign enough damage to its blockers to destroy them, you may have it assign the rest of its damage to defending player or planeswalker.) Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths introduced trample counters. In fact, we want the Core Set to be a teaching tool, which means we want it to cover as much ground as realistically possible, which is why we worked so hard for a way to get trample (and protection and equipment) into Ninth Edition. Three, our rules people came up with good reminder text for the mechanic, allowing it to exist happily in the Core Set. Two, our replacement for trample (the Thorn Elemental ability) was not particularly easy to understand either. But trample (and protection) were not, meaning the first time players saw it, they were clueless.

Most keywords without reminder text in black-bordered sets (flying, swampwalk, first strike, etc.) are clearly explained in the Core Set. One, newer players were running into trample in expert-level sets and not knowing how it worked.

Three things combined to get trample back in the Core Set with Ninth Edition. In a ' Ask Wizards' column, Aaron Forsythe said about Trample: Consequently, Trample was brought back in Ninth Edition. It is said that this ability was created because Wizards thought trample was too confusing, yet this new ability wasn't taken too well in its place. Lone Wolf, Pride of Lions and Thorn Elemental each can do combat damage to defending players as though they weren't blocked. Later on, WotC introduced a vertical cycle of creatures known as ' super tramplers' in the Starter 1999 starter-level set, which were all reprinted in Seventh Edition. Trample was removed from the core set with the Sixth Edition. It has also been printed on small creatures with no intrinsic ability to gain power, such as on Defiant Elf, but these are rare. and is generally printed on creatures with high power, such as Crash of Rhinos, or creatures with the ability to increase their power, such as Keldon Battlewagon.

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