Motivated by the study of the Kahan–Hirota–Kimura discretisation of the Euler top, we characterise the growth and integrability properties of a collection of elements in the Cremona group of a complex projective 3-space using techniques from algebraic geometry. This collection consists of maps obtained by composing the standard Cremona transformation $${{\,\textrm{c}\,}}_3\in {{\,\textrm{Bir}\,}}(\mathbb {P}^3)$$
c
3
∈
Bir
(
P
3
)
with projectivities that permute the fixed points of $${{\,\textrm{c}\,}}_3$$
c
3
and the points over which $${{\,\textrm{c}\,}}_3$$
c
3
performs a divisorial contraction. Specifically, we show that three behaviour are possible: (A) integrable with quadratic degree growth and two invariants, (B) periodic with two-periodic degree sequences and more than two invariants, and (C) non-integrable with submaximal degree growth and one invariant.