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Riding the Dilu Horse

Sorcery2 generic manaGreen mana

Horsemanship is one of the most insular keywords the game ever produced: an evasion mechanic built for a single self-contained world, where the rule is simply that only horsemen can block horsemen. Because the keyword almost never appears outside that closed pool, granting it to a creature is, in practice, granting unblockable to anything sharing a board with cards that have never carried the ability. That is where the leverage of this green combat spell lives. It is not a pump effect with evasion tacked on; it is a vector for exporting a quarantined mechanic into contexts that were never designed to answer it. The +2/+2 is the threat's size; horsemanship is the reason the threat connects, and the parenthetical "lasts indefinitely" matters because it permanently rewrites how the target relates to combat rather than buying a single attack step. Most aura-style pumps wear off or only modify the next swing; this one resolves once and the creature is changed for the rest of the game. The flavor is a Three Kingdoms commander mounting a celebrated warhorse to ride straight through the front line, and the rules text faithfully delivers the consequence: the front line stops mattering. As a piece of design it is narrower and sharper than the type line suggests, a sorcery whose real payload is an evasion type the rest of the table simply has no language for.

Riding the Dilu Horse (ptk)
PTK · #144rare
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Normal: $539.60
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains horsemanship. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship. This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Legalities

Format Status

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