In 2006, Magic: The Gathering introduced an entire typal precon deck around a creature type they only had four different cards.
Over the years, Magic has had a wide-assortment of not only preconstructed theme decks, but also preconstructed starter decks, ready-to-play commander decks, and other similar designed decks. For the most part, they always try to aim for a popular color combo, using popular spells and creatures, or pulling really hard on the new mechanics and themes that were recently introduced.
When it is creature or character focused, Magic will get a popular one, one that has a lot of tried and true cards associated with it through the decades. For, say a preconstructed commander deck focusing on dinosaurs, Magic has currently 189 unique previous dinosaur cards to choose from to help construct it, not to mention any associated spells, artifacts or other surrounding cards.
However, back in 2006 with Coldsnap, Magic banked on making a preconstructed theme deck based on a creature they only had a grand total of four cards ever printed of the creature to work with - Aurochs.
Aurochs, the extinct wild cattle of Europe, have only seldom come out throughout the history of the game. Ice Age had one, Coldsnap brought three more and....that is it really. Only four different aurochs cards from which to choose.
The aggro red/green deck, named Auroch's Stampede, heavily banked on the trample mechanic. In total there were three Aurochs cards, three Aurochs Herd cards, four Bull Aurochs cards and two Rimehorn Aurochs cards. To this day, this deck remains the pre-con with the lowest number of unique creature cards available for said creature to be a focus of.
But the lack of unique cards didn't hurt. In addition to trample, Aurochs gained power with the more you had. So if you managed to play them all, and assuming there were no real blocks, you could theoretically knockout an opponent with full life with one or two massive stampedes. There was a method in the madness, just like pretty much all pre-cons.
For more than two decades, the aurochs creature type has yet to get a new card. Despite this, they claim an odd place in Magic history, and should there ever be a return to a snowy area, new aurochs could see the light of day. And, who knows? An aurochs-centered commander deck may not be out of the question by then.
Or, at the very least, getting a highlight.
