Wall of Shadows
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to this creature by creatures it's blocking.
This creature can't be the target of spells that can target only Walls or of abilities that can target only Walls.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $0.48
- EDHREC rank
- #21213
Wall of Shadows blocks practically everything in the game and survives the trade — prevention of all combat damage dealt to it means attackers die and it walks away clean. Two black mana for a 0/1 that never goes to the graveyard in combat is a real rate, but the zero power means it will never threaten anything on the other side of the table.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Wall of Shadows occupies the niche of a near-unkillable blocker that stonewalls any ground creature indefinitely, which matters most in decks that need to survive long enough to assemble something — Oloro, Ageless Ascetic life-gain piles and Doran, the Siege Tower builds both have reasons to look at it, the latter because Doran turns that 0 toughness into a 0-power attacker anyway. In Pauper, Wall of Shadows is a legal commons-legal blocker that trades favorably against almost any aggro creature, though dedicated wall strategies there tend to prefer defenders with higher toughness. Legacy and Vintage have it legal but the card sees no meaningful play in either format — the competition for two-mana black permanents at those power levels is simply too steep. Wall of Shadows is fundamentally a casual and Commander-tier card, and that's the context where evaluating it makes any sense.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.48 bulk tier
At $0.48, Wall of Shadows is firmly bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. The price is stable because demand is low and supply from older printings is plentiful, so there's no reason to expect movement in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.