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The Walls of Ba Sing Se

The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Legendary Artifact Creature — Wall

The Walls of Ba Sing Se wants a deck that makes attacking it too costly, so opponents fight each other. It also works in a deck built around Artifact Creatures or Defender / Walls.

  • Mana cost8 generic
  • Colorless
  • Power / toughness0 / 30
  • RarityMythic

Defender

Other permanents you control have indestructible.

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Cards That Fit The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Picked for what they do in The Walls of Ba Sing Se's deck. When two cards do the same job, the one with the lower comes first. All of them fit The Walls of Ba Sing Se's color identity.Mana ValueThe total amount of mana a card costs, all added up. A card costing two generic and one green has a mana value of three. Wizards renamed this from "converted mana cost" in 2021, so older cards and articles may still use the old name.Sol RingOpen the full glossary

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Rulings for The Walls of Ba Sing Se

explain how The Walls of Ba Sing Se works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

A battle with indestructible still loses defense counters as it's dealt damage. If it's a Siege, it will still be exiled when the last defense counter is removed from it, and its controller may still cast it transformed without paying its mana cost.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

A planeswalker with indestructible still loses loyalty as it's dealt damage. It is put into its owner's graveyard if its loyalty becomes 0.

Wizards of the Coast 2 Oct 2025

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature you control may become lethal if The Walls of Ba Sing Se leave the battlefield during that turn.

3 rulings, all written by Wizards of the Coast. Read the originals on Gatherer ↗

Similar Commanders

Commanders that share the most with The Walls of Ba Sing Se, and what they share.

Color identityEvery color of mana symbol on a card, in its cost and in its rules text. Your commander's color identity sets the limit for your whole deck: every other card has to fit inside it. A deck led by a green and white commander cannot play a card with any blue in its color identity.Open the full glossaryPillowfortPillowfort decks make attacking you so costly or unappealing that opponents attack each other instead. Cards like Ghostly Prison make a player pay mana for every creature that attacks you, buying time for your own plan.Open the Pillowfort pageDefender / WallsWalls and other creatures with defender, which cannot attack, plus the cards that put them to work anyway. Some let these creatures attack, or deal combat damage equal to their toughness instead of their power.Open the Defender / Walls pageProtectionA creature with protection from something, like a color, is safe from anything with that quality. It cannot be damaged, enchanted or equipped, blocked, or targeted by it, and players remember the four with the word DEBT. It does not stop effects that neither target nor damage, like a board wipe that destroys every creature. ProgenitusOpen the Protection page