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Jeskai Barricade

Creature — Wall1 generic manaWhite mana

A defender is supposed to sit still and absorb damage, but the flash makes this one ambush at the worst possible moment: cast it during an opponent's attack and you get both a 0/4 to soak a hit and a bounce of one of your own creatures, mid-combat, at instant speed. That bounce is the real engine. Returning a creature you control resets enters-the-battlefield triggers, and doing it on the opponent's turn turns the wall into a recursion piece rather than a pure blocker. A blink target with a strong entry effect gets to fire twice while you also untap with a fresh body in play; a creature about to die in combat or to removal gets saved instead of bounced uselessly. The 0/4 body and Defender keyword set the price for that flexibility: this is not a clock, it never attacks, and the return is optional and targeted at your own side, so it cannot disrupt the opponent directly. What it does is fold a value reset and a defensive wall into a two-cost flash spell, which is a tighter package than the rate suggests. The design rewards a board built around entry triggers, where the wall is less a wall than a button you press at the end of the opponent's turn to rebuy whatever your best creature does when it lands.

Jeskai Barricade (frf)
FRF · #15uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.40
Foil: $3.21
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) Defender When this creature enters, you may return another target creature you control to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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