Zodiac Horse
Creature — Horse
Islandwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls an Island.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Portal Three Kingdoms
- Price
- $53.69
- EDHREC rank
- #27610
Zodiac Horse is a 3/3 creature for four mana with plainswalk — a narrow evasion ability that only matters when an opponent controls Plains, which is unreliable outside white-heavy metas. It has no enters-the-battlefield effect, no utility text, and no synergy hooks; there is almost no situation in Commander where this is the right card for the slot.
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 |
Zodiac Horse is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Legacy and Vintage, a vanilla-adjacent 3/3 for four with conditional evasion does not come close to meeting the power bar. In Commander, plainswalk becomes marginally more relevant if you're sitting across from Atraxa or Breya players, but even then it requires the opponent to have a Plains on board and doesn't win a combat so much as occasionally not lose one. Oathbreaker shares the same ceiling.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Any creature at the same cost that offers an enters-the-battlefield effect, keyword soup, or actual evasion — Imposing Grandeur targets aside — will outperform Zodiac Horse in a functional deck. If the appeal is specifically a horse creature for tribal, Crested Sunmare and Nightmare Shepherd cost more but do real work; at the budget end, even a basic utility creature with reach or vigilance is a more honest replacement.
Price Context
Current price
$53.69 premium tier
At $53.69, Zodiac Horse sits in the premium tier entirely on collectibility — it's a Portal Three Kingdoms card with extremely limited print run, and that scarcity drives the price, not gameplay demand. The value is real to collectors and set completionists, but it reflects nothing about the card's power level, and no Commander deck should be paying $53 for plainswalk.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.