Wall of Ice
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Limited Edition Beta
- Price
- $18.49
- EDHREC rank
- #16298
Wall of Ice is a 0/7 defender for three mana — it stalls ground combat effectively but does nothing else. Purely a roadblock, and in a format full of flying threats and noncombat win conditions, that's rarely enough.
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 |
Wall of Ice is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander, a 0/7 that can't attack and generates no value is a tempo loss — the format demands every card either accelerate your game plan or interact with opponents' plans, and a static body does neither. Legacy and Vintage have long since left defensive vanilla creatures behind. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander at smaller scale.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Anything Wall of Ice is trying to do — block early aggression — Fog Bank does cheaper and better by also stopping damage from large tramplers. If you want a high-toughness blue body with actual upside, Glacial Wall costs the same mana but at least you're not paying a premium price for a reprint.
Price Context
Current price
$18.49 mid tier
Wall of Ice at $18.49 is a collector's price, not a gameplay price — this is driven entirely by the original Alpha/Beta printings, not by demand from players running it in decks. It holds value only as a collectible; for anyone building a deck, later printings exist for under a dollar and play identically.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.