Wu Scout
Creature — Human Soldier Scout
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
When this creature enters, look at target opponent's hand.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $4.14
- EDHREC rank
- #23006
Wu Scout is a 1/1 for two mana with Horsemanship — a evasion keyword so rare on blue creatures that it's essentially unblockable in most Commander pods. The body is irrelevant; you're paying for a damage vector that most decks have zero answer to.
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 Scout sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage — Horsemanship is a Portal Three Kingdoms mechanic that never got reprinted into the mainstream, and a 1/1 for two does nothing in those formats regardless. In Pauper, Wu Scout is legal but unplayed; the format has enough efficient creatures that a vanillaish two-drop with a niche evasion type doesn't make the cut. Commander is the only format where Wu Scout has any real argument: Horsemanship is so absent from the card pool that most tables can't block it, making it a legitimate unblockable threat in decks that want to connect — Voltron commanders or those using combat damage triggers.
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Price Context
Current price
$4.14 cheap tier
At $4.14, Wu Scout sits in the cheap tier but punches well above its utility for most decks — that price is driven entirely by Portal Three Kingdoms scarcity, not demand from competitive play. It holds value as a collectible curiosity, but don't buy it expecting tournament relevance.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.