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Wei Strike Force

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaBlack mana

Horsemanship is fear wearing a costume: an evasion keyword that reads as flavor (mounted cavalry of the Three Kingdoms) but functions as a near-unblockable clause, since the pool of creatures that can block it is vanishingly small. Where fear gates blockers behind black-or-artifact, horsemanship gates them behind the keyword itself, and that keyword lives almost entirely inside one closed set of cards. The practical effect is that a body like this one connects every turn it attacks, against nearly any board, in nearly any deck. The cost of that reliability is paid in the stat line: 2/1 is fragile, a creature that hits hard and dies to a stiff breeze, so the design leans on getting damage through rather than surviving the crackback. That is the trade the whole keyword runs on. Evasion this absolute would be priced out of reach if it scaled to a real body, so the cards carrying it tend to be small, aggressive, and expendable. As a piece of design it is a closed-system evasion mechanic, a deliberate choice to make a keyword that interacts only with itself, which keeps the power contained: horsemanship is broken in the abstract and tame in practice precisely because almost nothing else shares it.

Wei Strike Force (me3)
ME3 · #82common
Pricing
Normal: $2.14
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
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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