Skophos Maze-Warden
Creature — Minotaur Warrior
: This creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever another creature becomes the target of an ability of a land you control named Labyrinth of Skophos, you may have this creature fight that creature. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25032
Skophos Maze-Warden turns every Minotaur entering the battlefield into a free damage trigger — a meaningful threat in a token-flooding deck that would otherwise need a separate finisher. The cost is context: outside a dedicated Minotaur shell, it's a 3/4 for four that does nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Sethron, Hurloon General
Sethron, Hurloon General floods the board with 2/3 Minotaur tokens on every nonhuman cast, and Skophos Maze-Warden converts each of those enters-the-battlefield triggers into direct damage — the two cards form a damage engine that doesn't require combat to close games.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Skophos Maze-Warden is legal across Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but competitive non-rotating formats give it nothing — Minotaur tribal has no meaningful presence in Legacy or Modern, and Pioneer isn't deep enough to support the archetype either. Commander is the only format where it earns a slot, specifically in Minotaur-tribal builds where token generation is high enough to make the damage ability relevant every turn cycle. Outside that narrow home, it sits.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Skophos Maze-Warden is bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in without thinking twice. Demand is too niche to push the price anywhere meaningful, and it should stay at the floor indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.