Wall of Lava
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.20
- EDHREC rank
- #28564
Wall of Lava is a red defender that pumps its own toughness for R each activation — a mana sink that keeps it alive through combat but never threatens to kill anything. It costs more resources to maintain than it returns, and in Commander that trade is nearly always wrong.
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 Lava is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legal and playable are different things. In Commander, a blocker that requires repeated mana investment to survive trades poorly against the board-wide threats the format generates — you'd rather spend that red mana advancing your own plan. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in a defensive creature this slow and fragile without external pump support. Oathbreaker shares Commander's tempo logic, so the same verdict applies.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.20 bulk tier
At $0.20, Wall of Lava sits firmly in bulk territory. It's cheap enough that picking one up costs nothing, but demand is low enough that the price isn't going anywhere.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.