Lu Meng, Wu General

A 4/4 for five that lands on the battlefield already knowing it will connect, turn after turn, against nearly any opponent it will ever face. That is the practical read on this body, and the reason is the keyword riding shotgun: horsemanship, an evasion mechanic built for a standalone product with its own stable of cavalry meant to police it. When those riders live almost nowhere else, the ability that reads as a checkable condition (blockable only by other horsemen) behaves in practice as unconditional unblockability against the rest of the card pool. Structurally it works exactly like flying: an evasion that asks the blocker to share a trait the format essentially never supplies. The difference is supply. Fliers are everywhere and reach answers them; horsemanship is so rare outside its native setting that the keyword is stricter than its text suggests, closer to true unblockability than to an evasion a defender can answer. Unlike shadow, though, a horseman can still block whatever it likes, so this is not a one-way wall; it is simply a creature that gets through, every combat, against players who will basically never field an answer in the relevant zone. The 4/4 body turns that into a repeatable four to the face with a clock attached. The mechanic was designed to build a self-contained evasion stack; the side effect, that its cavalry slide untouched through every other battlefield, is what keeps a plain blue soldier like this relevant.