Guan Yu, Sainted Warrior
A 3/5 body that almost nothing can block, in almost every game it will ever see: that is the practical reality of horsemanship, an evasion keyword shared by only a small pocket of Magic's earliest cards, which means in most pools no creature on the table qualifies to stop it. The second ability is the more distinctive piece of design. Rather than staying dead, Guan Yu may shuffle himself back into your library from the graveyard, sidestepping the recursion-and-reanimation economy most legendary creatures invite. You do not get to loop him cheaply; you get him back eventually, on a fresh draw, which quietly insulates the card against graveyard exile and edict effects without ever handing you a value engine. It is a flavor-driven nod to the warrior who refuses to stay buried, engineered as a brake on abuse rather than a payoff: the shuffle costs him all board presence and tempo, so it protects the card without rewarding you for killing your own creature. The combination frames him less as a tempo play than as a recurring inevitability, a near-unblockable durable body that keeps rejoining the deck without ever becoming a combo piece.
