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Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed

Legendary Creature — Human Soldier

Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Sacrifice Xiahou Dun: Return target black card from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only during your turn, before attackers are declared.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{B}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
rare
Set
Judge Gift Cards 2012
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#17516
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Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed card art
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed returns any black card from your graveyard to hand — that's a recursive engine stapled to a 3/2 horsemanship body, and the cost is sacrificing him, which is a feature in decks running Phyrexian Altar. The catch is the Portal Three Kingdoms print run: he's legendarily scarce, and the price reflects it.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed is genuinely powerful — mono-black reanimator, aristocrats, and combo shells all want a repeatable black-card retrieval loop, and his horsemanship makes him nearly unblockable in the rare game where you're attacking. He's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees zero competitive play there; the formats move too fast for a five-mana 3/2 with no immediate board impact. Oathbreaker is technically on the table but his recursion effect is better supported in the 99 than in the command zone.

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Price Context

Current price

unknown tier

Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed has no current market price on record — Portal Three Kingdoms cards trade infrequently, and copies surface mostly through buylist transactions or high-end singles dealers rather than TCGPlayer volume. Expect to pay a significant premium over comparable-effect cards purely for the scarcity, so weigh that against proxying him in casual metas where the table won't object.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.