Yellow Scarves Cavalry
Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
This creature can't block.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $8.80
- EDHREC rank
- #25072
Yellow Scarves Cavalry is a 2/1 for one red mana that can't block — a stats-over-everything aggro piece with a meaningful downside baked in. It's a historical curiosity more than a competitive inclusion, and virtually no Commander deck wants a non-blocking 2/1 in 2025.
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 |
Yellow Scarves Cavalry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Legacy and Vintage, one-mana 2/1s need to do something — Goblin Guide has haste and a drawback worth accepting; Yellow Scarves Cavalry just can't block, which is a liability in any interactive format. Pauper is its most plausible home in theory, where aggressive red commons have a ceiling, but even there the card has no evasion, no enter-the-battlefield effect, and no tribal tag worth caring about. In Commander, Yellow Scarves Cavalry is essentially unplayable — 40-life tables and multiplayer combat make a non-blocking 2/1 irrelevant by turn two.
Key Combos
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Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Any red one-drop with haste — Goblin Guide, Falkenrath Pit Fighter, or even Stromkirk Noble — outperforms Yellow Scarves Cavalry by offering evasion, upside, or at least the ability to block. If the goal is a cheap aggressive body in a budget red deck, Monastery Swiftspear costs under a dollar and scales with the game in a way Yellow Scarves Cavalry never will.
Price Context
Current price
$8.80 mid tier
At $8.80, Yellow Scarves Cavalry sits in mid-tier pricing driven entirely by collector demand for Portal Three Kingdoms cards, not gameplay merit. That premium is unlikely to translate to stable long-term value as reprints and diminishing interest in the card's playability erode the novelty premium.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.