Skip to content
Moxonomy

Wu Warship

Creature — Human Soldier2 generic manaBlue mana

The geographic-grudge cycle this belongs to is one of the strangest design experiments in early-era development: a body whose entire restriction keys off your opponent's manabase rather than anything you do. A 3/3 for three with no evasion and no abilities would be unremarkable, but the clause turns it into a wager on the opposing land types. Against any deck without a single Island, this creature simply cannot enter the red zone; it sits as a blocker and nothing more. Against a blue shell, it attacks freely and demands an answer. So it is a conditional attacker whose offense is hostage to a deckbuilding choice the opponent already made, a creature that is either a beater or a wall depending entirely on the board across the table. The lineage runs through the older "hate" cards that punished particular land types, but most of those punished the controller of the land for owning it; this one inverts the logic, restricting its own bearer for the privilege of swinging. That inversion is what makes it a curiosity rather than a card: you pay full freight up front and cannot know, at the time you sleeve it, whether you have bought an attacker or a roadblock. The decision the card front-loads belongs entirely to your opponent, which is exactly backward from how a creature's combat utility usually gets decided.

Wu Warship (me3)
ME3 · #56common
Pricing
Normal: $1.78
Foil:
Oracle Text

Rules text

This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

1 set
Quick navigation
move selectesc close