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Wall of Reverence

Creature — Spirit Wall3 generic manaWhite mana

The trick to this defensive lifegain engine is that it points its end-step trigger at power, not toughness, which sounds backwards for a wall until you read it as a deckbuilding nudge rather than a self-contained brick. The 1/6 body holds the ground in the air and on it, but the lifegain it generates from its own stats is negligible by design; the card wants you to control something large for it to feed off. Aimed at a fat finisher, it banks a chunk of life every turn while never tapping to attack, turning a creature that would otherwise be a one-way threat into a clock that also stabilizes you. That separation of duties (one creature pressures, the wall converts that pressure into a growing life total) is the whole point: it rewards a board with a top end rather than asking the wall to do everything itself. It can target itself in a pinch, so an empty board never leaves the trigger stranded, but feeding off its own single power is the floor, not the plan. As a piece of color-pie work it sits squarely in white's lane of patient, attrition-based stabilization, the kind of card built to drag a race into the long game where incremental life swings decide things.

Wall of Reverence (c13)
C13 · #26rare
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Normal: $0.88
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Defender, flying At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
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
N/A
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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