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Wu Elite Cavalry

Creature — Human Soldier3 generic manaBlue mana

Horsemanship is evasion built as a closed loop: a creature with it can only be blocked by another creature with it, and the keyword lives almost entirely in one corner of the game where the original printings concentrated. That makes it functionally unblockable in nearly every deck it would otherwise meet, which is the whole point of the mechanic and the reason it never crossed into wider play. The body here is the unremarkable half of the deal: a 2/3 that connects every turn because nothing on the other side of the table shares the keyword. The closest analogue in standard design vocabulary is fear or intimidate, evasion gated by a property the opponent usually lacks, except horsemanship's gate is so rarely printed that the "usually" becomes "always" outside its native pool. A four-mana attacker for two damage a swing is a modest clock by any era's math, but the keyword's scarcity is what converts a fair rate into reliable, repeatable damage. It is a clean window into why Wizards stopped designing evasion this way: an ability whose entire value depends on the opponent not owning matching cards scales unpredictably and ages into a near-blank curiosity everywhere the matching cards do not exist.

Wu Elite Cavalry (ptk)
PTK · #58common
Pricing
Normal: $2.06
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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
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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