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Walking Bulwark

Artifact Creature — Golem1 generic mana

Defender exists to divorce a creature's body from its offensive value: give something a fat rear and no way to swing, and you get a wall priced under its stats. This Golem's activated ability picks that lock, but with a twist most defender-enablers skip. It does not just let a wall attack; it swaps the attacker's damage assignment to toughness, so the very stat that made the wall a good blocker becomes its attack power. A 0/3 that could never threaten anything suddenly hits for three. The 2 generic mana activation is repeatable and untethered from the creature it targets, so one Bulwark can turn a board of defensive bodies into a lethal turn, but the sorcery-speed clause is the wire that keeps it grounded: no ambushing after blocks are declared, no flashing your walls into aggression during the opponent's combat. Because the haste rider comes stapled to each activation, a freshly cast wall can attack the turn it lands, which matters for any archetype that piles up high-toughness enters-the-battlefield engines and wants to close before the value grind reverses. It belongs to a small line of cards built to make defenders relevant on offense, and this one is the cleanest expression of the toughness-as-power conversion at the lowest possible cost.

Walking Bulwark (tdc)
TDC · #334uncommon
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Normal: $0.30
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender 2 generic mana: Until end of turn, target creature with defender gains haste, can attack as though it didn't have defender, and assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legalities

Format Status

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