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Sunweb

Creature — Wall3 generic manaWhite mana

A defensive wall built with a deliberate hole in its net. The 5/6 flying body promises a brick that stonewalls everything in the air and most things on the ground, but the design pays for that stat line with a backwards restriction: it cannot block the smallest attackers. A 5/6 flier that holds the line against fatties and evasive threats yet waves through every 2/1 and 1/1 is a strange shape, and that strangeness is the point. Most walls of the era scaled their toughness up and their cost up to gate the big stuff; this one inverts the logic, asking the controller to find another answer for the cheap aggressive creatures it ignores while it dominates everything expensive. The flying clause earns its place on a Defender that will never swing: it lets the wall trade with or chump the evasive midrange and bombs that would otherwise sail over a grounded blocker. The net result is a body that is excellent against exactly the threats a control deck fears most and useless against the swarm a control deck can usually handle with sweepers, a clean piece of role-compression that tells you what it is for by what it refuses to do.

Sunweb (7ed)
7ED · #51★rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.44
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender (This creature can't attack.) Flying This creature can't block creatures with power 2 or less.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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