Riding the Dilu Horse
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- Price unavailable
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Green
Card text
Target creature gets +2/+2 and gains horsemanship. (It can't be blocked except by creatures with horsemanship. This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Hong Yan
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-09-07
Flavour text
"All men have their appointed time; that's something no horse can change." —Liu Bei, after being told that the Dilu brings its master ill fortune
Rulings
The spell’s effect has no duration. The targeted creature gets +2/+2 until the game ends or it leaves the battlefield. It has horsemanship until the game ends, it leaves the battlefield, or some other effect causes it to lose horsemanship.