Wall
A wall is usually a defensive creature that, by default, either has the rule text "walls can't attack", or after an errata, has defender. This assumption was removed in Champions of Kamigawa when defender was added. Now, any new wall does not automatically have defender, it must say so on the card. Being a defensive creature, walls in general have a higher toughness then power but there are exceptions like Blistering Barrier.
Walls were removed for a short time after 8th Edition because in a sense it was hard to fathom how a Wall of Wood which seemed stationary would be able to move to block a creature. In 10th Edition each color, except black, saw a wall being printed. No explanation was given as to why walls came back to print.
Notable walls
- Wall of Blossoms — A green 0/4 Wall that, when it comes into play, allows its controller to draw a card; this wall saw, and, in formats which it is legal in, sees, play in some tournament green decks.
- Wall of Mulch — The closest thing to a "Wall Lord," this is the only wall that rewards players for putting it in a deck with other Walls.
Trivia
- Number of walls: 93.
- Number of walls with subtype snow: 1 — Wall of Shards.
- Number of artifact walls: 13.
- Cheapest (mana cost) wall: Shield Sphere —
. - Most expensive (mana cost) walls: Dark Maze, Illusionary Wall, Infested Roothold, Necropolis, Snow Fortress, Wall of Opposition — converted mana cost of 5.
- Wall with the highest power: Illusionary Wall — 7.
- Walls with the highest toughness: Wall of Shards and Wall of Stone — 8.
- Walls with the highest combined power and toughness: Illusionary Wall and Sunweb — 11
- Walls with the lowest combined power and toughness: Mindbender Spores, Necropolis, Wall of Shadows, Wall of Tombstones and Wall of Vapor — 1.
- Wall printed the most times: Wall of Swords (every core set except 9th Edition plus Portal).
- Expansion set with the most walls: Ice Age — 11.