Aetherflame Wall
Creature — Wall
Defender
This creature can block creatures with shadow as though they didn't have shadow.
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Time Spiral
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #22899
Aetherflame Wall blocks anything with power up to its toughness and hits back for 1 thanks to its activated ability — the problem is that activated ability costs one red mana per point of power, making it ruinously expensive to threaten anything meaningful. A 0/5 defender that can't attack and needs six mana just to deal 5 damage is not a card competitive Commander tables are looking for.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Aetherflame Wall is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Commander, a 0/5 wall that can block large creatures is structurally fine, but five slots on the board demand more than a speedbump — removal, ramp, and draw all outclass it for the same slot. Pauper is the one format where cheap, high-toughness defenders occasionally find a home in fog-style or mill strategies, but even there Aetherflame Wall's activated ability is too mana-intensive to matter. Legacy and Modern have no shell that wants it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Aetherflame Wall is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a bulk box but rarely fills a deck slot on purpose. The price accurately reflects demand: near zero.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.