Card
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
Mana cost {2}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Soldier 3/2
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 14 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · PTK · #92
- Cheapest printing
- €127.96
- EDHREC salt
- 0.18
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Horsemanship
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
14 known combos.
- Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Phyrexian Altar + Living Death
Produces: Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Not Dead After All
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Feign Death
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2013-09-20 · Wizards of the Coast
If a turn has multiple combat phases, the ability can only be activated before the beginning of the declare attackers step of the first combat phase in that turn. - 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Despite the similarities between horsemanship and flying, horsemanship doesn't interact with flying or reach. - 2009-10-01 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't activate Xiahou Dun's ability to return Xiahou Dun itself to your hand. You must choose a target before you sacrifice Xiahou Dun, so it's not a black card in your graveyard yet.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast