Zerapa Minotaur
Creature — Minotaur
First strike
: This creature loses first strike until end of turn. Any player may activate this ability.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #30340
Zerapa Minotaur gives first strike on attack and loses it on block — the upside is real in an aggressive red deck, but the downside turns any chump-blocking situation into a liability. It's a narrow card that earns its slot only if you're never planning to defend.
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 |
Zerapa Minotaur is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Pauper it's the most plausible home — red aggro wants every edge it can find at common — but a 2/2 for two with conditional first strike is below the bar even there. In Commander, three power levels of blockers make the blocking drawback punishing, and better Minotaur tribal payoffs exist for Minotaur-focused builds.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Zerapa Minotaur is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a collection binder and stays there. Demand is too low to expect this to move in either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.