Dread Rider — ruling 1

Although players may respond to the activated ability, they can’t respond to the paying of its activation cost. The creature card will already be exiled by the time anyone can respond.

Dread Rider : règles, fonctionnement et interactions (MTG)

Dread Rider is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.

Official card text

, , Exile a creature card from your graveyard: Target opponent loses 3 life.

How it works : Dread Rider

Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall

#1February 5, 2021· Wizards of the Coast
Although players may respond to the activated ability, they can’t respond to the paying of its activation cost. The creature card will already be exiled by the time anyone can respond.
No other card is named in this ruling.