Wall of Earth
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $0.42
- EDHREC rank
- #25193
Wall of Earth is a 0/6 defender for two mana — it blocks almost everything in the early game and costs nothing to slot in. The ceiling is just that: a wall that never swings back, making it a tempo play with no upside beyond staying alive.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wall of Earth sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy or Vintage, where a 0/6 that can't attack is too passive against decks that win through non-combat means. In Pauper, cheap ground-stalls see occasional fringe play in prison shells, but Wall of Earth lacks the enters-the-battlefield effect or utility text that would make it worth a slot over other common defenders. Commander is where the card is most forgiving as a budget blocker in early builds, but even there Wall of Earth gets outclassed quickly — most threats in multiplayer fly, trample, or win without combat entirely, and a vanilla wall doesn't scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.42 bulk tier
At $0.42, Wall of Earth is bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. Don't expect that price to move; pure vanilla defenders have no speculative upside and no tournament demand to push the number anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.