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Tinder Wall

Creature — Plant Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Sacrifice this creature: Add {R}{R}.
{R}, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 2 damage to target creature it's blocking.

CMC
1
Mana cost
{G}
Color identity
GR
Rarity
common
Set
Coldsnap Theme Decks
Price
$2.80
EDHREC rank
#2440
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Tinder Wall card art
Tinder Wall blocks a attacker, then cashes out for two red mana — one mana spent, two returned, with a body in the way first. The catch is that both abilities together demand sacrificing it, so the wall is a one-shot ramp piece rather than a repeatable blocker; pair it with Mortuary or any reanimation loop and that limitation evaporates, which is exactly why Etali, Primal Conqueror lists run it at over 54% inclusion.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Etali, Primal Conqueror

54.7% of decks · synergy 0.50

Etali, Primal Conqueror needs to attack to generate value, and Tinder Wall provides the two red mana that lets you cheat Etali into play a full turn early — at 54.7% inclusion across nearly 15,500 decks, it's practically a staple of the archetype.

02
Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer

21.4% of decks · synergy 0.20

Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer is a mana-intensive tutor-to-play commander, and Tinder Wall's two-mana net gain at one green pip gets Rocco online faster than almost any other one-drop in the color.

03
Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King

22.3% of decks · synergy 0.18

Korvold, Fae-Cursed King wants permanents to sacrifice for cards and counters, and Tinder Wall delivers both a free sacrifice trigger and two mana to reinvest — it's a one-card fuel pellet for the engine.

05
Flubs, the Fool

Flubs, the Fool

19.6% of decks · synergy 0.14

Flubs, the Fool cares about creatures dying and value accruing from sacrifice, so Tinder Wall slots in as a cheap blocker that converts itself into mana the moment Flubs, the Fool needs to push through a key spell.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Tinder Wall is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, and Commander is by far where it does its best work — the combination of a free blocker and two-mana return on a one-mana investment is exactly the kind of incremental efficiency that snowballs in a 40-life, multiplayer game. In Pauper it's technically available, but the format's fast, interactive nature means a Wall that can't block effectively until you're ready to sacrifice it rarely makes the cut over straighter ramp. Legacy and Vintage have access to every broken piece ever printed, so Tinder Wall doesn't compete for a slot in those formats. Oathbreaker mirrors Commander's logic closely enough that the same sacrifice-and-ramp shells that want it there will consider it here too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.80 cheap tier

At $2.80, Tinder Wall sits in the cheap tier but punches above its price — it's a reserved-list card with a narrow, highly specific use case, and its demand is almost entirely Commander-driven. That combination tends to keep the floor stable without much ceiling upside, so treat it as a utility pickup rather than a spec.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.