Zhang Fei, Fierce Warrior
Pairing evasion with a defensive keyword is the structural choice worth noting here: a 4/4 that carries both vigilance and horsemanship attacks and blocks in the same turn, so the trait that usually reads as a glass-cannon aggressive keyword instead anchors a durable centerpiece. Horsemanship itself works exactly like shadow: a creature with it can only be blocked by creatures that share the keyword. The difference is scarcity. Because horsemanship appears almost exclusively in a single historical block, that blocking condition is satisfied in practice almost never, which leaves the body effectively unblockable against the entire card pool that came after. It is clean theme-driven design from the early era that imported the Romance of the Three Kingdoms cast into Magic, where horsemanship stood in for cavalry and the legends were sized as durable threats rather than tempo plays. The curiosity now is how the ability aged: built to be conditional, it has become one of the most reliable forms of "can't be blocked" in the game, not because it grew stronger but because the keyword that could have answered it stopped being printed. An evasion designed to be interactive drifted into near-total inevitability by attrition of the rest of the game around it.
