Wall of Reverence
Creature — Spirit Wall
Defender, flying
At the beginning of your end step, you may gain life equal to the power of target creature you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Commander 2013
- Price
- $0.88
- EDHREC rank
- #4570
Wall of Reverence ends each of your turns by adding your largest creature's power to your life total — the kind of passive, compounding gain that forces opponents to kill a 0/4 defender just to stop the bleeding. At four mana it's a touch slow, but commanders like Bre of Clan Stoutarm and Jumbo Cactuar that already care about life totals turn it into a must-answer engine within a turn cycle.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Bre of Clan Stoutarm
Bre of Clan Stoutarm's ability rewards high-power creatures, and Wall of Reverence converts that same power directly into life gain each end step — the two mechanics feed off the same board state rather than competing for it.
Felothar the Steadfast
Felothar the Steadfast generates value off creatures with high power, so Wall of Reverence isn't just incidental lifegain — it's additional payoff for the wide, beefy boards Felothar wants anyway.
Hope Estheim
Hope Estheim decks accumulate life as a resource, and Wall of Reverence's end-step trigger stacks reliably with other passive gain sources to keep that total climbing without requiring additional mana investment.
Karlov of the Ghost Council
Karlov of the Ghost Council triggers off each individual lifegain event, and Wall of Reverence fires once per end step to deliver two counters per turn cycle — straightforward, free triggers on a blocker that also survives most combat.
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's upkeep triggers already pad your life total, and Wall of Reverence stacks on top to give the deck a second recurring source that scales with whatever your biggest creature happens to be.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Wall of Reverence does its best work — 100-card singleton games go long enough that a repeating end-step life boost genuinely accumulates into a meaningful cushion, and the 0/4 body blocks early aggression while it does it. In Legacy and Vintage, it's technically legal but irrelevant; those formats end too fast for a four-mana do-nothing-immediately enchantment to matter. Oathbreaker is a reasonable home if your planeswalker and signature spell generate the high-power creatures the card wants to see.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.88 bulk tier
At $0.88, Wall of Reverence sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy include-or-test with no financial friction. That price is likely stable — it sees niche but consistent Commander demand and has been reprinted enough to prevent any meaningful upward pressure.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.