Labyrinth Adversary
Creature — Minotaur
Trample (This creature can deal excess combat damage to the player it's attacking.)
Whenever you attack, you may pay 
. When you do, target creature can't block this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Assassin's Creed
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #19294
Labyrinth Adversary enters and immediately taxes your opponents for every nonland permanent they control — the pressure is on-board before they untap. The three-mana body is a reasonable rate for what amounts to a political lever or a genuine drain engine in the right shell, and Sethron, Hurloon General decks are the clearest home for it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sethron, Hurloon General
Sethron, Hurloon General triggers on every Minotaur entering the battlefield, and Labyrinth Adversary's tax effect stacks with that flood of triggers to drain opponents out while the board keeps growing — the two cards reward exactly the same thing.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Labyrinth Adversary is a Commander card through and through — the multiplayer environment means the drain effect hits three opponents simultaneously, turning a modest per-permanent tax into a real life swing each trigger. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but irrelevant; three mana for a symmetry-dependent drain effect is far too slow for those formats. Modern has better tools at every point on the curve, so Labyrinth Adversary doesn't compete there either. Stick to Commander, specifically tribal shells that flood the board fast enough to make the tax punishing.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Labyrinth Adversary is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a bulk bin. Bulk rares with narrow tribal applications rarely climb on their own, so don't expect the price to move unless Minotaur tribal gets a significant new piece.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.