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Minotaur, Roxxon CEO

Legendary Creature — Minotaur Villain4 generic manaBlack manaBlack mana

A death-triggered engine that treats attrition as raw material: every nontoken creature that dies, on either side of the table, restocks the board with a menace body. That "either side" clause does the real work. Most token-on-death designs only reward your own casualties, which forces you to build the sacrifice loops yourself; this one taxes combat itself, so a defensive block or a board wipe that clears the opponent's creatures still feeds you. It turns removal-heavy tables into a grinding source of evasive attackers rather than a race you can be forced out of. The "nontoken" restriction caps the loop cleanly: the 2/1 Villains it makes are themselves tokens, so feeding them back into a sacrifice outlet nets you value but never another trigger. Each token is a one-way body: it pressures life totals through menace and serves as fodder, but the engine has to be primed with real creatures, not its own products. The card itself asks nothing beyond bodies willing to die, which is the recurring shape of black's board-driven villain designs. What separates this one is symmetry: it does not care whose creatures perish, only that they were nontokens rather than conjured, and the more attrition a game generates the more it favors the player holding the trigger.

Minotaur, Roxxon CEO (msc)
MSC · #539rare
Pricing
Normal: $3.01
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever Minotaur, Roxxon CEO or another nontoken creature dies, you create a 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Legalities

Format Status

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