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Talruum Minotaur

Creature — Minotaur Berserker2 generic manaRed manaRed mana

French vanilla in the technical sense: a single evergreen keyword bolted onto a plain body, which is the design vocabulary's term for exactly this. The 2 generic manaRed manaRed mana rate on a 3/3 with haste is unremarkable, and it was always meant to be; this is the kind of common that fills out a curve without spending any of a set's complexity budget. Haste is the whole pitch. A 3/3 that swings the turn it lands does a different job than a 3/3 that has to survive a rotation of removal first, which is precisely why red owns the keyword as a color-pie staple and the other colors mostly do not: the card converts to damage on the same turn it commits to the board, trading durability for tempo. Minotaurs as a creature type would later pick up tribal scaffolding in other sets, but this one predates any of that and stands on its body alone. There is no second angle here and no need to manufacture one. It is a baseline aggressive common, the sort of card a set prints several of so the splashier rares have something to sit on top of.

Talruum Minotaur (mir)
MIR · #196common
Pricing
Normal: $0.15
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Haste
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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