Coastal Bulwark
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender
This creature gets +2/+0 as long as you control an Island.
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: Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card into your graveyard.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The Brothers' War
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20214
Coastal Bulwark gives all your creatures +0/+1 until end of turn for three mana — a one-shot toughness buff that rarely changes the outcome of a combat or race. It's a bad combat trick at sorcery speed, and there is almost never a good reason to run it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Coastal Bulwark is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, a three-mana sorcery that temporarily pumps toughness does nothing to advance a board state or close a game. Competitive Pauper has faster, more impactful commons that actually affect the board in lasting ways. Coastal Bulwark is technically castable in every format that allows commons; it simply has no format where it's worth a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Coastal Bulwark is deep bulk — a price that reflects exactly how little demand exists for it. The price has nowhere meaningful to go, and picking one up is only relevant if you need it for a very specific janky project.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.