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Impenetrable Arc 4W
Creature - Elemental Wall
Defender, flying
Converge - Impenetrable Arc enters the battlefield with a beam counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.
Each other creature you control enters the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter on it for each beam counter on Impenetrable Arc.
In defense of Zendikar, the roilmages rendered beauty solid.
0/5

Next: A Wall from (at last) the Golgari guild

Gates to the Rotfarm
Creature - Gate Wall
Defender
When a creature you control dies, put a +1/+1 counter on ~
, , remove X +1/+1 counters from ~: return target creature card with converted mana cost X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
0/4

Next: a wall from Serra's realm

Radiant's Fortifications
3W
Creature - Wall
Defender, flying, first strike,
Cycling 2
2/4

Next: A wall from Lorwyn

Gilt-Leaf Station 3B
Creature - Wall
Defender
At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, that player loses 1 life and you create a 1/1 green Elf Warrior creature token.
1/6

Next: A Wall from Theros.

Starfield Membrane 1ww
Enchantment Creature - Wall
Defender
~'s power and toughness are each equal to your devotion to white.
*/*

Next: a Wall that's also a land

Hanging Garden GG
Creature - Wall
Defender
When ~ dies, return it to the battlefield transformed.
T: Add G
0/3
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Floating Garden
Land - Forest Plains Island
When ~ becomes tapped, scry 1 and you gain 1 life.

Next:
A compleated wall

Ceramic-Bound Mass
Creature - Horror Wall
Defender, Infect
At the beginning of your upkeep you may sacrifice a creature, if you do put X +1/+1 counters on ~ where X is that creature's toughness.
As long as ~ has 4 or more +1/+1 counters on it, it can attack as though it didn't have defender.
0/1

Next: something resembling a spartan phalanx

Defensive Position
1WW
Creature - Soldier Wall (R)
2/3
Defender
Banding
Creatures banded with Defensive Position have first strike.
Heroic - Whenever you cast a spell that targets Defensive Position, create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token.


Next: A wall that wouldn't feel out of place in a Taiga.

Wall of Frost Trees 3g
Snow Creature - Pland Wall (U)
Defender
t: Add ss
0/5

Next: Wall with level up.

Barrier of Skulls b
Creature — Skeleton Wall
Defender
Level up — b, Sacrifice a creature (b, Sacrifice a creature: Put a level counter on this. Level up only as a sorcery.)
0/1
Next: a Wall with power and toughness each equal to something

Mnemonic Barrier
Creature - Illusion Wall
Flash
~'s toughness s equal to the number of cards in your hand
~'s power is equal to the number of attacking creatures
: switch ~'s power and toughness
*/*

Next: a wall that can't block

Cowardly Wall 2r
Creature - Coward Wall
Cowards can't block.
Cowards your opponents control can't attack.
3t: Each player creates a 1/1 red Coward creature token.
0/4

Next: Master of Cruelties wall.

Wall of Cruelties 3br
Creature - Wall
First strike, deathtouch, defender
3br - Wall of Cruelties may attack as though it didn't have defender.
Wall of Cruelties can only attack and block alone.
Whenever Wall of Cruelties attacks a player and isn't blocked, that player's life total becomes 1. Wall of Cruelties assigns no combat damage this combat.

1/4

Next: Wall with annihilator 2

Wall of the Broken 3B
Creature — Eldrazi Horror Wall
Defender, annihilator 2
Wall of the Broken may attack as though it didn't have defender as long as another creature with converted mana cost 7 or greater is attacking.
Whenever an opponent sacrifices a creature, put a +1/+1 counter on Wall of the Broken.
"It advances across the landscape, composed of countless of our dead, grasping for more." —Jalun, Affa sentry
0/3

Next: A wall that screeches.

Screeching Wall
1U
Creature - Wall (Uncommon)
Defender
When Screeching Wall is dealt combat damage, each player puts that many cards from the top of their libraries into their graveyards.
0/4
Next: A wall found in Femeref.

Krishnath wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Name the wall cycle that inspired this card and I'll give you an imaginary cookie. It's delicious.

Krishnath wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Banding

btw I'm absolutely horrified you made a card with banding where it makes absolute 100% sense for what you were asked to do. nice work. :D

spacemonaut wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Krishnath wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Name the wall cycle that inspired this card and I'll give you an imaginary cookie. It's delicious.

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is it the walls from stronghold? A couple of those care about being dealt combat damage, and they're all 0/4 CMC2. (except the red one that's not 0/4)

Krishnath wrote: ↑

4 years ago

Banding

btw I'm absolutely horrified you made a card with banding where it makes absolute 100% sense for what you were asked to do. nice work. :D

And you win an imaginary cookie.

And as for banding, I love the mechanic, but then again I understand it! And since it got downgraded from 10 to 9 on the storm scale, it could technically appear in Standard some day (but it is highly unlikely). I hope we get some in a supplementary set, a lot of high Storm Scale mechanics have started to show up there...

Terorq Mineshaft 2R
Creature - Wall
Defender
As long as Terorq Mineshaft is untapped, Dwarves you control get +1/+0.
1R, T: Return target Mountain card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Activate this ability only during your upkeep.
0/4

Next: A Wall with no way to cast it normally.

Ghirapur Scrapheap - no casting cost -
Artifact Creature - Wall
Defender
, discard an artifact card: return ~ from your graveyard to the battlefield with X additional +1/+1 counters where X is equal to that artifact's converted mana cost.
Cycling
0/0
Next: a wall that makes copies of itself for yout opponents

I wouldn't mind seeing banding again, may be with a little overhaul to share combat abilities between creatures in the band, if nothing else, at least to streamline the reminder text on actual paper cards.

Pandemic Blob 2(g/u)(g/u)
Creature - Ooze Wall
Defender, reach
Whenever ~ blocks a creature, that creature becomes a copy of ~.
1/4

Next: a Wall working the best against some or all of the following: Angels, Demons, Dragons, Hydras, Sphinxes

Wall of Preservation
3WW
Creature - Wall [Rare]
Flying
Protection from Angels, Demons, Dragons, Hydras, and Sphinxes.
0/5


Next: A wall found in one of Jolrael's palaces.

Mwonvuli Palace Bastion
Creature - Wall
: add
When ~ blocks a creature you may return ~ to its owner's hand. If you do, you may put a non-human green creature card from your hand onto the battlefield blocking that creature
0/3

Next: a wall of flowstone

Flowstone Wall
2R
Creature - Wall (C)
Defender
R: Flowstone Wall gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
0/6

-or-

Shifting Wall
X
Artifact Creature - Wall (U)
Defender
Shifting Wall enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters on it.
0/0

???

Now, my actual answer is:

Flowstone Barricade
1RW
Creature - Wall (U)
Defender, first strike
R: Flowstone Barricade gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
2W: Flowstone Barricade becomes an elemental creature until end of turn and may attack this turn as if it did not have defender.
0/6


Next: A wall sacred to Nylea.

Winds of the Winter Nexus 2GG
Enchantment Creature - Wall
Flash
Defender, reach
Creatures with flying enter the battlefield tapped.
4GG: Tap target creature with flying. Winds of the Winter Nexus deals 2 damage to that creature's controller.
0/8

Next: A Wall sacred to Purphoros.

Forge of the Fiery River 2rr
Enchantment Creature - Wall
Flash
Defender, first strike
Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks or blocks, ~ deals 1 damage to it.
4rr: tap target land. It doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
4/4


Next: a Wall sacred to Thassa