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Hurloon Shaman

Creature — Minotaur Shaman1 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Symmetrical land destruction stapled onto a body that wants to trade. The Minotaur is the trigger's delivery vehicle: a 2/3 priced to swing into something its size, die, and shave a land off the board on the way out. The catch is the symmetry. When it dies, each player sacrifices a land, the controller included, so the card only nets you tempo if you can spend a land more cheaply than your opponent. That makes it a creature for the aggressor in a mana-light race, where stripping an opponent's third or fourth land hurts them more than it hurts you, and the choice clause (each player picks their own) blunts it further: nobody loses a key dual or a tapped-out color, just the least useful land they own. It sits in a small, mostly forgotten family of dies-triggered Stone Rain effects, an attempt to fold disruption into the combat step rather than spend a card on it. The design never quite cohered because the body and the trigger pull in different directions: a creature good enough to attack profitably is one you do not want to throw away for a single land, and a creature you are happy to chump with rarely connects with the symmetry in your favor. It comes from a time when red's land destruction was a respected pillar of the color rather than a sideboard footnote.

Hurloon Shaman (wth)
WTH · #108uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
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Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, each player sacrifices a land of their choice.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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