Deadshot Minotaur
Creature — Minotaur
When this creature enters, it deals 3 damage to target creature with flying.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #25949
Deadshot Minotaur trades a 3/3 body and a free Shock into whatever blocked or was targeted — solid two-for-one pressure at five mana. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/3 is below rate, so you're playing this for the trigger, not the stats.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Deadshot Minotaur is a bulk common, and competitive formats ignore it entirely — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have no interest in a five-mana 3/3 when faster, cheaper threats exist. Pauper is the one constructed format where it could see fringe play in a Gruul aggro shell, though even there five mana is a steep ask for a card that doesn't close games. Commander is where Deadshot Minotaur actually finds a home: Minotaur tribal decks and Gruul creature-value commanders will run it for the on-attack ping, which turns every swing into incidental removal or direct damage.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Deadshot Minotaur is firmly bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because you need the effect and the deck can afford a bad rate. It will stay in this tier; nothing about its power level or demand profile suggests upward movement.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.