Mobile Fort
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: This creature gets +3/-1 until end of turn and can attack this turn as though it didn't have defender. Activate only once each turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.33
- EDHREC rank
- #24647
Mobile Fort trades off an enormous 0/10 wall for a single attack trigger that pumps it — a threat that never actually threatens anything until you've already invested multiple turns. It's a novelty, not a staple.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Mobile Fort is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Commander, a 0/10 defender that needs to attack to grow is deeply contradictory — it can't attack until you jump through hoops, and even then you're spending resources to make a vanilla beater. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a five-mana do-nothing artifact. Oathbreaker is faster and more focused than Commander, which makes Mobile Fort's ceiling even lower there.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.33 bulk tier
At $0.33, Mobile Fort sits firmly in bulk territory, and that price reflects its playability ceiling accurately. Don't expect it to appreciate — it sees essentially no competitive play in any format.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.