Skophos Reaver

The math tells the whole story: a 2/3 that swings as a 4/3 on your turn and shrinks back to a 2/3 on the crackback. That asymmetry is deliberate. It buys aggressive stats cheap by refusing to pay for them on defense, so the card is a blade that dulls the moment you stop attacking. The body is priced to bully any two- or three-toughness blocker on offense while offering nothing to a race in the other direction. Madness ties the design together, turning a discard into a tempo play: pitch it to a rummaging effect and it comes back a generic mana cheaper than its printed cost, arriving already primed to press forward. That reframes the creature from a topdeck into a payoff for churning your hand, a beater you want to throw away rather than draw off the top. Minotaurs have long been red's aggressive workhorses, and this one leans hardest into the cheap-offensive-disposable register. The combination of a discount-on-discard clause and a body that only earns its rate while attacking makes it a purpose-built aggro piece, not a midrange creature dressed up as one.