Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender
: This creature deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker. Activate only if you control a Desert or there is a Desert card in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #23585
Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs blocks a creature and pings an opponent for 1 life whenever you control a Desert — a narrow condition that limits it to dedicated Desert synergy builds. Outside that niche, it's a 0/4 defender that does nothing, and that's not a trade worth making.
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 |
Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but competitive play across those formats has no interest in it. In Commander, it earns a slot only in Desert-tribal or Amonkhet-themed builds where the ping triggers stack into something meaningful — Hazezon, Shaper of Sand being the clearest home. Pauper is the one format where a 0/4 blocker is genuinely cheap to deploy, but the Desert requirement makes it too conditional to rely on. Everywhere else, Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs is a draft common doing draft common things.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Wall of Forgotten Pharaohs is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not card value. It won't appreciate unless Desert synergy becomes a competitive pillar, and that's not happening.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.