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Wall of Limbs

Creature — Zombie Wall

Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Whenever you gain life, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
{5}{B}{B}, Sacrifice this creature: Target player loses X life, where X is this creature's power.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{B}
Color identity
B
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Magic 2015
Price
$0.34
EDHREC rank
#11994
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Wall of Limbs card art
Wall of Limbs snowballs into a game-ending activated ability — pay X life, deal X damage to each opponent — but that ability costs seven mana on top of whatever life you've accumulated, making it a slow build that demands a dedicated shell. Agatha's Soul Cauldron can grant the activated ability to other creatures, which is where Wall of Limbs stops being a novelty and starts being a threat; Felothar the Steadfast pushes it further by stacking +1/+1 counters fast enough to make the payoff realistic.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Felothar the Steadfast

Felothar the Steadfast

19.1% of decks · synergy 0.17

Felothar the Steadfast turns every life gain trigger into a +1/+1 counter on Wall of Limbs, compressing what normally takes a full game into a handful of turns and making the drain activation a credible mid-game threat rather than a late-game desperation play.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Wall of Limbs is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker. Constructed formats don't want it — seven mana for a conditional damage effect is far too slow when faster life-gain payoffs exist in Modern and Pioneer. Commander is its real home, specifically life-gain commanders who can stack counters reliably and push the activated ability into range before the table stabilizes. Outside of dedicated life-gain builds, Wall of Limbs is too passive to justify the slot.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.34 bulk tier

At $0.34, Wall of Limbs sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to acquire without thinking twice about cost. Bulk cards with narrow homes rarely appreciate, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a pickup with upside.

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