The Walls of Ba Sing Se – MTG Proxy Avatar: The Last Airbender

About The Walls of Ba Sing Se

The Walls of Ba Sing Se is a premium unofficial The Walls of Ba Sing Se MTG proxy card from Magic: The Gathering‘s Avatar: The Last Airbender set. This legendary artifact creature Wall is most useful in decks built around defender strategies, artifact protection, and control gameplay, making it a strong option for casual Commander, cube, and deck testing.

Mana Cost
Type	Legendary Artifact Creature — Wall
Text	Defender Other permanents you control have indestructible.
Set	Avatar: The Last Airbender TLA #261
Rarity	Mythic

What The Walls of Ba Sing Se Does

The Walls of Ba Sing Se is a colorless legendary artifact creature Wall with defender and a very large toughness stat. Its main ability gives other permanents you control indestructible, protecting your creatures, artifacts, enchantments, lands, planeswalkers, and other permanents from destruction effects.

The main value of The Walls of Ba Sing Se is board protection. Once it is on the battlefield, many common destroy effects become much weaker against the rest of your board. This can be especially valuable in Commander, where board wipes and removal spells often decide whether a deck can keep its engine in play.

The key detail is that The Walls of Ba Sing Se protects other permanents, not itself. That means it can still be removed by exile, bounce, sacrifice effects, toughness reduction, or destruction effects that can answer it directly. Protecting the Wall itself is an important part of building around it.

Best Uses for The Walls of Ba Sing Se

• Defender decks: The Walls of Ba Sing Se is a natural fit for decks that care about Walls, defender creatures, and high toughness.
• Control decks: It helps protect a developed board from many destruction-based answers while giving control decks time to stabilize.
• Artifact decks: As a legendary artifact creature, it can benefit from artifact support, artifact tutors, recursion, and protection effects.
• Commander and cube testing: The card is worth testing in slower environments where protecting a large board matters.

Recommended Interactions

The Walls of Ba Sing Se works well with cards that support defender creatures, let Walls deal combat damage using toughness, or protect key artifacts. When building around it, look for ways to protect the Wall itself, take advantage of its high toughness, or use it as part of a defensive artifact shell.

• Arcades, the Strategist: Lets defender creatures attack and assign combat damage equal to toughness, turning The Walls of Ba Sing Se into a major offensive threat.
• High Alert: Allows creatures you control to assign combat damage equal to toughness and gives defender decks another way to attack.
• Lightning Greaves: Protects The Walls of Ba Sing Se with shroud and haste, helping cover the fact that its indestructible ability does not protect itself.
• Darksteel Forge: Gives artifacts you control indestructible, which can help protect The Walls of Ba Sing Se and other artifact pieces.

Cards That Work Well With The Walls of Ba Sing Se

Arcades, the Strategist

Arcades supports defender decks by letting creatures with defender attack and assign combat damage equal to toughness. The Walls of Ba Sing Se has extremely high toughness, making it a major payoff in that strategy.

High Alert

High Alert lets creatures assign combat damage equal to toughness and gives defender creatures a way to attack. It turns The Walls of Ba Sing Se from a defensive piece into a potential win condition.

Lightning Greaves

Lightning Greaves helps protect The Walls of Ba Sing Se from targeted removal. This matters because the Wall gives other permanents indestructible, but it does not give indestructible to itself.

Darksteel Forge

Darksteel Forge gives artifacts you control indestructible. Since The Walls of Ba Sing Se is an artifact creature, Darksteel Forge can help protect the Wall while reinforcing an artifact-heavy board.

Decks That Want The Walls of Ba Sing Se

The Walls of Ba Sing Se fits best in defender, artifact control, and pillow-fort decks. In Commander, it is useful for decks that want to protect a large board of permanents, especially if the deck can tutor for artifacts, protect key creatures, or turn high-toughness Walls into attackers.

In cube, The Walls of Ba Sing Se is strongest when the environment supports slower artifact decks, defender themes, or high-toughness payoffs. It is less effective in fast environments where eight-mana defensive cards are difficult to deploy before the game is decided.

Strengths and Considerations

The main strength of The Walls of Ba Sing Se is its broad protection effect. Giving other permanents indestructible can make board wipes and destroy-based removal much less effective against your battlefield.

The main consideration is cost and vulnerability. The Walls of Ba Sing Se costs a lot of mana, and it does not protect itself with its own ability. Testing The Walls of Ba Sing Se as a proxy can help you decide whether your deck, cube, or casual playgroup can support the mana cost and protect the card once it is in play.

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This is an unofficial proxy/playtest card for casual play, Commander, cube, display, and deck testing where proxies are allowed. It is not an official Magic card and is not tournament legal. Review our Proxy Use Policy for responsible casual use.

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