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Fell Horseman // Deathly Ride

Creature — Zombie Knight // Sorcery — Adventure3 generic manaBlack mana1 generic manaBlack mana

The Adventure frame usually splits one card into two clean spells; here the two halves are built to quarrel over the same resource. Deathly Ride is a sorcery-speed Raise Dead that hauls any creature card out of your graveyard back to hand, leaving the 3/3 body waiting in exile to cast later. Play that body instead, let it trade, and its death trigger does something a plain Zombie Knight would not: it dies as normal, then buries itself on the bottom of the library rather than lingering in the yard. That self-removal is the balancing wrinkle. A four-mana body carrying a two-for-one is a fine attrition piece, but shipping itself to the bottom denies the graveyard-payoff decks that want corpses to stay put: no delve fuel, no reanimation target, nothing to raise a second time. Note the timing, though. Because this is a dies trigger and not a replacement effect, the creature can still be sacrificed to an outlet and still register on every "when a creature dies" trigger before it heads for the library; the self-removal is a separate trigger alongside those payoffs, not instead of them. The friction is the whole design. Deathly Ride wants a full graveyard to pick from, while the front-half creature methodically strips itself out of every graveyard it lands in, refusing to become the very kind of body its Adventure half is built to recover.

Fell Horseman // Deathly Ride (woe)
WOE · #92common
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature dies, put it on the bottom of its owner's library. // Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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N/A
Premodern
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PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
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Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
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Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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