Wei Night Raiders
Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Whenever this creature deals damage to an opponent, that player discards a card.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $30.00
- EDHREC rank
- #25685
Wei Night Raiders is a 4/3 black creature with horsemanship — effectively unblockable in nearly every Commander game — that costs four mana and requires you to tap two untapped creatures as an additional cost. The evasion is real, but that tap cost makes it a support-dependent card, not a standalone threat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wei Night Raiders is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, and sees essentially zero play in Legacy and Vintage — horsemanship is powerful evasion but four mana for a 4/3 with a tap-two-creatures cost doesn't compete in those formats. Commander is its only realistic home, and even there it's a niche card: horsemanship is unblockable against nearly every deck in the format since so few creatures share the keyword, which makes Wei Night Raiders a reliable damage source in go-wide black strategies. The tap cost is the friction — you need a board to pay it, which means it underperforms when you're behind.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Most black evasion threats at this mana cost skip the tap requirement entirely — Phyrexian Negator and similar cards offer comparable or better stats without needing a board to activate. If the appeal of Wei Night Raiders is the unblockable-in-practice horsemanship, there's no true budget equivalent since horsemanship appears on almost no other Commander-legal creatures, but a flying or shadow beater in the same slot will accomplish the same goal at a fraction of the price and with no additional cost.
Price Context
Current price
$30.00 premium tier
At $30, Wei Night Raiders sits at a premium price driven almost entirely by collector scarcity — it's a Portal Three Kingdoms card with minimal competitive demand, so the price reflects supply, not power. It holds value the way other P3K cards do, but you're paying for the collectible, not the card's impact on a game.
Explore
Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.