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Shield-Wall Sentinel

Artifact Creature — Golem4 generic mana

A tutor that only fetches its own kind, which is precisely the point. Wall-based decks live or die by consistency: you need enough defensive bodies to survive to the turn your payoff comes online, but drawing walls in the wrong ratio leaves you either overexposed or holding a hand of blockers with nothing to convert them into offense. When it lands, the search reaches for any creature with defender, so the same body can dig for a specific piece (a wall that taps for mana, a wall that draws cards) or simply the next brick in the fortress, depending on the board. Being colorless is the quiet enabler here: a defensive shell drawn across two or three colors can slot this in without touching its mana base, which is the kind of flexibility a narrow tribal engine rarely gets. The 1/3 body is honest about its job, holding the ground the deck cares about while the search does the deckbuilding work you would otherwise leave to variance. It replaces itself twice over in a wall strategy: once as a blocker, once as the card it finds.

Shield-Wall Sentinel (dmu)
DMU · #238common
Pricing
Normal: $0.35
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender When this creature enters, you may search your library for a creature card with defender, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Legalities

Format Status

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