Yuan Shao, the Indecisive
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier
Horsemanship (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship.)
Each creature you control can't be blocked by more than one creature.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $135.00
- EDHREC rank
- #24375
Yuan Shao, the Indecisive lands as a repeatable token engine that scales with your board — every untap step becomes a resource if you can keep creatures in play. The cost is real: five mana for a 3/4 that needs support to close games, but the ceiling on token generation per turn cycle is high enough to justify the slot in dedicated go-wide builds.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Yuan Shao, the Indecisive actually gets to do its job — a 100-card singleton environment gives you the redundancy to build around the tap-to-generate-tokens effect, and multiplayer life totals buy the time a five-drop needs to take over. Legacy and Vintage are technically legal but irrelevant; nothing about Yuan Shao competes in those formats, and no competitive pilot is registering it. Oathbreaker is the one alternative worth mentioning: if you can pair it with a signature spell that protects or untaps it, the token output accelerates meaningfully in a compressed game.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Yuan Shao, the Indecisive sits in a crowded lane of token-generating legends, and most of what it does can be approximated for far less — Rhys the Redeemed and Adeline, Resplendent Cathar both generate tokens on a cheaper axis without needing to tap. The trade-off is that neither replicates Yuan Shao's exact triggered pattern, so if the specific synergy matters to your build, the substitutes are functional stand-ins rather than true replacements.
Price Context
Current price
$135.00 premium tier
At $135, Yuan Shao, the Indecisive is premium territory — this is the price of a serialized or low-print-run treatment, not a card whose power level commands three figures. Treat it as a collector purchase first; if you want the effect, functional reprints or similar legends cost a fraction of that and won't leave you sweating a boardwipe.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.