Wall of Stone
Creature — Wall
Defender (This creature can't attack.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Eighth Edition
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #20794
Wall of Stone is a 0/8 blocker for three mana — it stops most ground attackers cold but contributes nothing to your board state beyond that. In a format as threat-dense as Commander, a vanilla defender with no enter-the-battlefield effect and no offensive upside doesn't earn a slot.
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 |
Wall of Stone is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but seeing competitive play in none of them. In Commander, a 0/8 with defender occupies a three-mana slot that could hold a piece of ramp, a draw spell, or a blocker that actually interacts — the toughness is impressive, but opponents go over it, under it, or simply target you with evasion. In Legacy and Vintage the card is laughably underpowered relative to what those formats are doing on turn two. Modern has long since moved past pure defensive walls without payoffs.
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Wall of Stone isn't available at the moment, but as a decades-old common with no competitive demand it almost certainly sits well under a dollar in any printing. Not worth tracking down unless you're completing a set or running a Defender-tribal build that truly needs the toughness count.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.