Emberhorn Minotaur
Creature — Minotaur Warrior
You may exert this creature as it attacks. When you do, it gets +1/+1 and gains menace until end of turn. (An exerted creature won't untap during your next untap step. A creature with menace can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Amonkhet
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #23064
Emberhorn Minotaur is a vanilla 4/3 with trample for four mana — passable stats, no abilities, nothing that justifies a deck slot in any format with real competition for four-drops. The trample stops it from being a complete blank in combat, but that's the entire case for it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Emberhorn Minotaur is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different conversations. In Pauper it's the most relevant, where vanilla creatures at common occasionally see fringe use in aggressive red shells — even there, a 4/3 for four is slow compared to the format's one- and two-drop threats. In Commander, a 4/3 trample body with no enters-the-battlefield trigger, no tribal tag worth building around, and no combo utility is an easy cut in favor of any creature that replaces itself or advances a game plan. Emberhorn Minotaur exists; it just doesn't do anything worth building around in any of the formats where it's legal.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Emberhorn Minotaur is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a draft chaff box. There's no meaningful demand to push that price up, so treat it as a throwaway filler piece at best.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.