Wu Light Cavalry
Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $3.85
- EDHREC rank
- #24250
Wu Light Cavalry is a 2/3 horsemanship creature for three mana — a statline and keyword that would be unremarkable if horsemanship weren't effectively unblockable in most Commander pods. The card's entire case rests on that evasion; outside of it, there's nothing here.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wu Light Cavalry sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy or Vintage despite being legal — a 2/3 for three with horsemanship simply doesn't meet the power threshold those formats demand. In Pauper it's similarly irrelevant, where efficient commons set a much higher bar for three-mana creatures. Commander is the only format where Wu Light Cavalry has any real conversation, and even there it's niche: horsemanship is a near-unique evasion type that almost nothing in the format can block, making it a consideration exclusively in decks that care about consistent combat damage — Voltron strategies, commanders that trigger on dealing combat damage to players, or Silvar and Trynn-style go-wide builds looking for a reliable attacker.
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Price Context
Current price
$3.85 cheap tier
At $3.85, Wu Light Cavalry sits at a premium that its on-paper stats don't justify — you're paying entirely for the scarcity of a Portal Three Kingdoms printing, not for power. It holds that price because supply is permanently constrained, but don't expect the card to pull its weight at the table the way a $4 staple normally would.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.