Longhorn Sharpshooter
Creature — Minotaur Rogue
Reach
When this card becomes plotted, it deals 2 damage to any target.
Plot 
(You may pay and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #20036
Longhorn Sharpshooter enters with a +1/+1 counter and pings any target for 1 whenever another creature with a counter enters under your control — in the right deck, that's a damage engine stapled to a body. The two-mana price is right, and Sethron, Hurloon General decks that flood the board with Minotaurs and counters will trigger it constantly.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sethron, Hurloon General
Sethron, Hurloon General pumps every Minotaur with +2/+1 counters on attack, and each of those Minotaurs entering or attacking alongside Longhorn Sharpshooter stacks into repeated pings that pressure planeswalkers or finish off weakened creatures.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Longhorn Sharpshooter is legal across every major constructed format but hasn't made a dent outside Commander — the ping rate is too slow to matter in faster 60-card environments where a two-mana 1/1 needs to do more work immediately. In Commander it finds a genuine home in +1/+1 counter decks and token strategies where the trigger fires multiple times per turn cycle, turning incidental board development into consistent chip damage. The fact that it hits any target — players, planeswalkers, or creatures — gives it real flexibility that pure go-wide payoffs lack.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Longhorn Sharpshooter is deep bulk — grab a copy out of any common box without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow synergy profiles rarely climb without a tournament breakout, and this one isn't positioned for that, so buy it for the deck and don't think about it further.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.