Mad Cow Disease

Pioneer BR (Rakdos) Budget Casual Discard Madness Minotaur

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Creature (22)

• 4x Gnarled Scarhide
• 4x Bloodrage Brawler
• 2x Burning-Fist Minotaur
• 4x Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 3x Neheb, the Worthy
• 2x Rageblood Shaman
• 3x Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion

Land (22)

• 4x Dragonskull Summit
• 4x Foreboding Ruins
• 10x Mountain
• 4x Swamp

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Deathbellow War Cry

Instant (12)

• 4x Heartless Act
• 4x Thrill of Possibility
• 4x Fiery Temper

Artifact (3)

• 3x Bag of Holding

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Sideboard

Sorcery (11)

• 4x Duress
• 4x Call of the Death-Dweller
• 3x Crippling Fear

Instant (4)

• 4x Rakdos Charm

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An ultra-budget (~$50) deck that utilizes Minotaur tribal synergies with discard and madness effects. Minotaur as a tribe suffer from the very unfortunate issue of being an aggressive tribe with only one 1-drop and five 2-drops legal in Pioneer, so don't expect this deck to be spiking any tournaments, but it's a lot of fun to play and will cost you very little to build.

All suggestions and critiques are welcome!

Creatures

• Gnarled Scarhide is the only one-drop minotaur ever printed. Luckily, they're actually playable, as their no-blocking downside is rarely relevant, and you'll find yourself using the bestow ability far more often than you'd expect.
• Bloodrage Brawler an unexceptional two-drop that can help fuel our discard synergies and provide us a fairly beefy cow.
• Burning-Fist Minotaur another unexceptional two-drop that can help us discard cards when needed.
• Neheb, the Worthy is a solid minotaur lord that works extremely well with all of our discard effects.
• Rageblood Shaman is our typical +1/+1 tribal lord that gives our cows trample to boot.
• Glint-Horn Buccaneer is a hasty minotaur that acts as both an engine and payoff for our discard synergies.
• Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion is a big creature that can fuel us into the late game and deal massive damage to our opponents when paired with Glint-Horn Buccaneer.

Non-Creatures

• Fiery Temper is usually a bolt in a format where bolt isn't legal.
• Infernal Grasp is instant speed removal for {1}{B}. Enough said.
• Thrill of Possibility provides some card advantage and discard synergies
• Bag of Holding is an instant-speed discard engine that can also help us with card advantage, potentially on a massive scale in the late game.
• Deathbellow War Cry is the dream we desperately want to be more than a meme. Most games you'll probably just cycle this away to the discard pile if you draw it, but in a stalled match that goes long or a mana-flood that you happen to survive through, there's enough power here to win the game on its own.

Sideboard

• Call of the Death-Dweller can bring back most of our minotaurs against a removal-laden opponent.
• Crippling Fear is a one-sided board wipe against most aggro and zoo strategies.
• Duress is a great swap-in against opponents packing a lot of removal or very few creatures.
• Rakdos Charm helps us deal with pretty much anything else.

Top Ranked	Achieved #9 position overall 4 years ago Achieved #1 position in Pioneer 4 years ago
Date added	6 years
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Pioneer legal.
Rarity (main - side)	24 - 3 Rares 14 - 8 Uncommons 8 - 4 Commons
Cards	60
Avg. CMC	2.47
Folders	Modern, FUN, try this, Pioneer Decks to Try, Decks, Rakdos R/B Pioneer, Pioneer Budget, Pioneer To-Build, Fun