Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed 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.
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Official card text
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.
How it works : Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Despite the similarities between horsemanship and flying, horsemanship doesn't interact with flying or reach.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· 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.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
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#1
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Phyrexian Altar + Living Death
Infinite blinkingInfinite colored manaInfinite death triggersInfinite creature ETB
- 1Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing all creatures you control, adding at least
. - 2Cast Living Death by paying
, causing each player to exile all creature cards from their graveyard, sacrifice all creatures they control, then return all cards exiled this way to the battlefield. - 3Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, returning Living Death from your graveyard to your hand.
- 4Repeat.
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#2
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Not Dead After All
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Not Dead After All by paying , targeting Xiahou Dun.
- 2Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, targeting Not Dead After All.
- 3When Xiahou Dun dies, it and Pitiless Plunderer triggers, as well as any Wicked Roles that were attached to Xiahou Dun.
- 4Resolve the Wicked Role trigger(s), if applicable, causing each opponent to lose that much life.
- 5Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 6Resolve the Xiahou Dun trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a Wicked Role token attached to it.
- 7Resolve the Xiahou Dun ability from step 2, returning Not Dead After All from your graveyard to your hand.
- 8Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
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#3
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Supernatural Stamina
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Supernatural Stamina by paying , targeting Xiahou Dun.
- 2Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, targeting Supernatural Stamina.
- 3When Xiahou Dun dies, it and Pitiless Plunderer trigger.
- 4Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Resolve the Xiahou Dun trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 6Resolve the Xiahou Dun ability from step 2, returning Supernatural Stamina from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Repeat.
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Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Feign Death
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Feign Death by paying , targeting Xiahou Dun.
- 2Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, targeting Feign Death.
- 3When Xiahou Dun dies, it and Pitiless Plunderer trigger.
- 4Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Resolve the Xiahou Dun trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 6Resolve the Xiahou Dun ability from step 2, returning Feign Death from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Repeat.
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#5
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Pitiless Plunderer + Undying Malice
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Undying Malice by paying , targeting Xiahou Dun.
- 2Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, targeting Undying Malice.
- 3When Xiahou Dun dies, it and Pitiless Plunderer trigger.
- 4Resolve the Pitiless Plunderer trigger, creating a Treasure token.
- 5Resolve the Xiahou Dun trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 6Resolve the Xiahou Dun ability from step 2, returning Undying Malice from your graveyard to your hand.
- 7Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Repeat.
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Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Phyrexian Altar + Abhorrent Overlord + Victimize
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite colored manaInfinite creature sacrifice triggers
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Victimize by paying
and sacrificing another creature, returning Xiahou Dun and Abhorrent Overlord from your graveyard to the battlefield. - 2When Abhorrent Overlord enters, it triggers, creating a number of 1/1 Harpy creature tokens equal to your devotion to black.
- 3Activate Phyrexian Altar three times by sacrificing Abhorrent Overlord and two Harpies. adding .
- 4Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, returning Victimize from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
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#7
Solemnity + Luminous Broodmoth + Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed
Infinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETBInfinite creature sacrifice triggersInfinite death triggers
- 1Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it.
- 2When Xiahou Dun dies, Luminous Broodmoth triggers, returning Xiahou Dun from your graveyard to the battlefield without a flying counter on it due to Solemnity.
- 3Repeat.
- 4Resolve all Xiahou Dun abilities.
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#8
Xiahou Dun, the One-Eyed + Storm-Kiln Artist + Not Dead After All
Infinite artifact ETBInfinite artifact LTBInfinite creature LTBInfinite creature ETB
- 1During your precombat main phase, cast Not Dead After All by paying , targeting Xiahou Dun.
- 2Storm-Kiln Artist triggers, creating a Treasure toen.
- 3Resolve Not Dead After All.
- 4Activate Xiahou Dun by sacrificing it, targeting Not Dead After All.
- 5When Xiahou Dun dies, it triggers, as well as any Wicked Roles that were attached to Xiahou Dun.
- 6Resolve the Wicked Role trigger(s), if applicable, causing each opponent to lose that much life.
- 7Resolve the Xiahou Dun trigger, returning it from your graveyard to the battlefield with a Wicked Role token attached to it.
- 8Resolve the Xiahou Dun ability from step 2, returning Not Dead After All from your graveyard to your hand.
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Legal formats
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