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Skophos Maze-Warden

Creature — Minotaur Warrior3 generic manaRed mana

The trigger here is a rare kind of design: a creature whose keystone ability points not at a spell, an attack, or a combat step, but at a specific named land in your own deck. Whenever another creature becomes the target of an ability from your Labyrinth of Skophos, this Minotaur may fight it, turning a utility land into a repeatable removal engine so long as both halves are on the board. That dependency is what pays for the effect: the fight rider is dead text without the exact land it names, so assembling and protecting a two-piece package becomes the price of admission. The self-pump activation is what tilts the combat math. Paying 1 generic mana for +1/-1 pushes the fight through as extra damage while shaving toughness, a tension the 3/4 frame absorbs well: you can trade durability for power a few times before it falls over. It sits closer to the "named land plus payoff" tradition than to a standalone beater, and it lives or dies on whether you can put the pair together. Absent the land, you get a serviceable roadblock; with it, every land activation that points at an enemy creature converts into a targeted fight, punishing an opponent for keeping creatures on the table worth aiming at.

Skophos Maze-Warden (thb)
THB · #153uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.03
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

1 generic mana: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn. Whenever another creature becomes the target of an ability of a land you control named Labyrinth of Skophos, you may have this creature fight that creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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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