Talruum Champion

A first striker designed to win the fight against other first strikers, which is a narrower brief than it sounds. Most first-strike combat is decided before regular damage even matters: two first strikers trade in the first-strike step like ordinary creatures, and a first striker that meets a vanilla blocker simply gets a free swing. This Minotaur's combat trigger collapses that asymmetry the moment it engages an opposing first striker, stripping the keyword off whatever it blocks or is blocked by, so the 3/3 body deals its damage first and unopposed. Against the everyday creature it offers no edge beyond the printed keyword; against another first striker it turns a mutual trade into a one-sided exchange. What you get is a creature whose value scales entirely with how much first strike the opponent is fielding, a hyper-specific answer dressed as a generic beater. It reads as the kind of as-fan curiosity Wizards produced when the design vocabulary was still small enough that "first striker that hoses other first strikers" counted as a complete idea for a card, the combat-math equivalent of a protection clause aimed at a single keyword rather than a color.