Wu Warship
Creature — Human Soldier
This creature can't attack unless defending player controls an Island.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $2.32
- EDHREC rank
- #29348
Wu Warship is a 3/3 islandwalk creature for three mana with a mandatory discard-a-card upkeep cost — the card disadvantage is real and consistent. Unless you're specifically exploiting the discard trigger, this fails a basic rate check against nearly every comparable threat available.
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 Warship sees essentially no competitive play across any format where it's legal. In Commander, the upkeep discard is punishing in a format where card advantage is already hard to sustain, and islandwalk as an evasion type is too narrow to justify the slot. Legacy and Vintage offer no compelling reason to run it over threats with better rates and no drawback. Pauper is the one format where islandwalk aggro shells occasionally exist, but even there Wu Warship's mandatory discard makes it a liability in longer games.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.32 cheap tier
At $2.32, Wu Warship sits in budget territory, but that price reflects collector demand for the Portal Three Kingdoms printing rather than any gameplay merit. Don't let the price tag suggest utility it doesn't deliver.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.