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The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Legendary Artifact Creature — Wall8 generic mana

A 0/30 body that never attacks is not the point; the second line is. Blanket indestructibility for every other permanent you control (not just creatures) rewrites how removal works against you. Board wipes that destroy stop mattering. Combat that would trade dies to friction. Your lands, artifacts, and planeswalkers all shrug off destruction as long as this stays on the table. The design tension is deliberately obvious: at eight mana with defender, it does nothing to close a game, and it leaves a glaring seam. Indestructible answers nothing to sacrifice, exile, bounce, counters, or effects that reduce toughness to zero or move a permanent to the graveyard without destroying it, so the wall invites exactly the removal that ignores it. And because the grant reads "other permanents," the wall itself stays destructible, which makes it the natural target: kill the 0/30 by any means and the fortress it was projecting collapses in the same instant. That is the whole strategic axis. It is a lynchpin that protects everything except itself, a defensive anchor priced high enough that a deck built around it spends the early turns surviving to deploy it, then spends the turns after surviving the moment someone finds the answer to it.

The Walls of Ba Sing Se (tla)
TLA · #261mythic
Pricing
Normal: $23.29
Foil: $28.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Legalities

Format Status

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