Riding the Dilu Horse

Riding the Dilu Horse's Design Intent

Was Riding the Dilu Horse lacking the "Until end of turn" rider deliberate or not? I'm trying to settle an argument; I'm on the side of "it was a mistake that left in because of the negligible impact of 'fixing' it"; the other party is on side "It was deliberate because it makes it function as a pseudoenchantment, when Portal was intended to lack that type".

I didn’t work on that set, but I believe is was intentional to mimic an enchantment.

Enchantments Horses Mimic Riding the Dilu Horse

Rules and Acorn Cards

How is it that Staying Power can only be acorn, but Riding the Dilu Horse and Nature's Blessing work in the non-acorn rules? Can the rules manager fix this at their whim, but more pressing things are in the way? I'd prefer the solution of Riding and Blessing getting some errata or being made acorn cards but having Staying Power be un-acorned would also satisfy, so long as these are consistent.

The game is capable of making effects that last for the duration of the game. Staying Power’s issue is the rules have issues with making some temporary effects permanent. As is often the case with weird effects, the rules can handle 99% of the issues, but weird corner cases exist and the rules have to handle all cases.

Errata Horse Nature's Blessing Riding the Dilu Horse Rules Rules Manager Staying Power Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Card Design Philosophy

If Staying Power is firmly silver border, why is Riding the Dilu Horse allowed to exist as it is rather than make it work like a black border card?

A single card can produce an effect that doesn’t end. The problem is certain effects don’t handle being turned into an endless effect well.

Black Border Horse Riding the Dilu Horse Staying Power Un-Magic / Silver Border / Acorn Un-sets

Dilu Horse Errata Possibility

Due to perpetually being a thing in Alchemy couldn't Riding the Dilu Horse be errata'd to say "Target creature perpetually gets +2/+2 and gains horsemanship" or is perpetually only something that you strictly want in Alchemy?

I think it’s just an Alchemy thing.

Creatures Errata Horse Horsemanship Riding the Dilu Horse

Dilu Horse Riding Rules

since horsemanship is flying, is riding the dilu horse a bend or a break?

It’s a break.

Bend / Break Flying Horse Horsemanship Riding the Dilu Horse Rules

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