Minotaur Tactician
Creature — Minotaur
Haste
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a white creature.
This creature gets +1/+1 as long as you control a blue creature.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Apocalypse
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30924
Minotaur Tactician gives all your red and white creatures +1/+1 and haste until end of turn — a meaningful pump-and-enabler on a three-mana body. The catch is that it only cares about red, white, or red-and-white creatures, so it's worthless outside those color combinations.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Minotaur Tactician is a tribal-adjacent combat trick and lives almost entirely in Commander, where Boros and Minotaur-tribal decks can actually trigger both conditions. In Pauper it's technically legal but has no competitive home — the format's aggro shells want more efficient payoffs than a three-mana sorcery-speed pump. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect doesn't come close to the power level required. Commander is the only format where the haste-grant on a board of wide red and white creatures makes Minotaur Tactician worth sleeving.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Minotaur Tactician is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a niche effect. Bulk commons and uncommons at this price point don't hold or gain value, but that's irrelevant; you pick it up for pennies if the deck calls for it and don't think twice.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.