Wall of Spears
Artifact Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
First strike
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Fourth Edition Foreign Black Border
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #23098
Wall of Spears is a 2/3 defender with first strike for two mana — functional roadblock, nothing more. Outside of dedicated Wall or defender tribal strategies, cheaper and more versatile options exist at every point on the curve.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Wall of Spears sees essentially no competitive play across any format where it's legal — Legacy, Vintage, and Modern all have access to strictly better creatures at the same cost. In Commander, it occasionally appears in Arcades, the Strategist or Doran, the Siege Tower lists that want to fill out the defender count, but even there it sits near the bottom of the inclusion stack. Pauper is its most forgiving home, where the card pool is shallow enough that a 2/3 first striker for two can pull weight in a dedicated walls build.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data isn't currently available for Wall of Spears, but as a common with decades of reprintings and minimal competitive demand, it typically sits in bulk range — expect to find copies for a few cents in most stores. There's no meaningful financial reason to prioritize picking it up.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.