Seriously, if you don't have 4 Great Walls in every one of your decks you're a damn fool.
Splenivore
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(12 votes)
Easily one of the best cards to deal with plainswalkers.
Shikadi
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(6 votes)
underated , stop using understatements...
Kartakass
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
That will stop shose pesky Righteous Avengers! They are far too popular these days.
ObsessedAddict
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Aren't there only like, 4 creatures in existance, that can get plainswalking? O_o
Volcre
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Because plainswalk really needs a hoser...
mrredhatter
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Run with Golden Wish, if ever plainswalkers become a problem. No wait call The Genis Book of World Records first!
AgesofThunder
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
The strangest thing about this card is that at the time of it's printing only one card had plainswalking and it was a 3/1. Congrajulations on being able to prevent damage from ONE already awful creature.
Thrull_Champion
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(9 votes)
Richard Garfield actually had called this the worst card ever printed, in a old issue if Inquest Gamer I still have somewhere.
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
The worst card of an already bad cycle...Righteous Avengers was the only card with plainswalk at the time, although Giant Slug could obtain for a measly . Since Legends the amount of cards printed with the word plainswalk on them can be counted on one hand. There is absolutely no reason to play this whatsoever.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
There are 5 creatures in Magic with Plainswalk (one of them has Snow-covered Plainswalk, but it still counts), a Homelands enchantment that gives all white creatures Plainswalk, Giant Slug can give itself Plainswalk, Barbarian Guides can give a creature Snow Plainswalk.
tenkaze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
take THAT, Mind Sculptor!
GradiustheFox
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(6 votes)
This card is depressing. Maybe if you're playing someone with severe dyslexia you can convince them that it stops "Planeswalk" cards, which would possibly be worth 3 mana, but otherwise... It doesn't even make sense in the in-game context. Why does it take such an absurd amount of mana to build a wall out of rocks that only keeps out deer? That's the same cost as making one out of, just to name a few; Pure Aether, flames, cadavers, Alabaster, and, wait for it... ANGELS.
spectermonger
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Another vintage piece in the mold of the one and only Chimney Imp
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(21 votes)
It hoses Planeswalkers, you say? Hah! Finally, this card gets its due - and we have a way to punish foolish children who pour money into those fancy Jaces and Gideon Juras! Wait... plainswalkers?
"Great Wall"... more like "NOT-SO-GREAT WALL" AMIRITE.
brunsbr103
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(6 votes)
useful in EVERY deck. I don't care if that deck has no white mana in it, those plainswalk creatures are nasty
it stops four whole creatures
FOUR!
Alpinefroggy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This is the worst card in the entire game because only one card has the plainwalk ability
dberry02
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This is going in my 60 card Battle of Wits deck.
Nothing beats out-of-nowhere victories like Opalescence!
achilleselbow
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
I feel like landwalk is just a failed mechanic for the same reason that Wizards gave up on circles of protection and cheap color-hate cards like Karma or Justice - either you're stuck with useless cards 80% of the time, or games turn into a matter of who can out-sideboard who.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
HOSE DAT PLAINSWALK
count_dorku
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mix with Magical Hack and now you can use it to stop islandwalk too! You know, the trait you wouldn't have been vulnerable to if you hadn't been stupid enough to splash blue to make this slightly less appalling...yeah, it's pretty much unsalvageable.
Andon_A
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think the ONLY time this MAY be REMOTELY useful is if you have a blue deck that already has a splash of white and Magical Hack in it for other uses. That way you can defend against islandwalk. But still, it's bad. Just... Yeah.
To be fair, 3 mana for blocking a landwalk isn't bad. It's just that.... There's no plainswalkers.
scumbling1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It comes down the turn before your opponent's Graceful Antelope: wonderful!
iSlapTrees
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Doesn't look chinese to me ;(
tavaritz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Let's see: Splash white and add this plus Magical Hack or use Undertow. Which one is easier.
Spideredd
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
when decks go bad...
ChaosK
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Maybe one day this could become useful, but for now its close to being useless
Azrael1911
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It would be funny if it said "Creatures with PLANESWALK may be blocked as if they did not have this ability."
This way you can block Teferi, Venser, Karn, and Nicol Bolas! (Yes, i know it doesn't work like that >.>)
If a landwalk set ever becomes released, this will QUADRUPLE in price. It will almost cost a dime.
Pretty sure the only creature that had plainswalk when this was released was righteous avengers, which was already one of the worst cards ever printed. Serra Angel had the same converted mana cost.
LlanowarEmissary
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh snap!
anytwofactors
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
5/5. Very useful. Took almost no time to light grill thanks to this card.
NeoKoda
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Now when Gideon Jura tries to hop into Dominaria, then back onto our Plane to sneak by your defenses, you can stop him!
occamsrazorwit
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Combos well with China.
kazenpaus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
All those people who are rating this half a star will quake in fear when I play my Righteous Avengers and walk right across their plains.
SirZapdos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Makes your opponent's Aysen Highway even more worthless, if that were possible.
LandKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is the worst card in the history of magic because it's designed exclusively to stop the second worst card in the history of magic.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Uhm hello? This is called a sideboard card. 5/5 hoses otherwise unblockable cards.
omni8000
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
BUT THINK OF ITS DELICIOUS FLAVOR!
War_Elemental
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Terrible card, but it was obviously necessary to print it in order to hose the ridiculously broken Aysen Highway decks that were running rampant in constructed formats at the time.
This card is probably useful in fewer situations than any other Magic card. It can be used against FOUR CARDS.
Drecon84
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is even part of a cycle (for reference: Deadfall). I'm really not sure if that is a redeeming quality or a really bad idea...
Morgaledh
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 for flavor. I mean, the Great Wall did stop a whole lot of plainswalkers, if you think about it. Now we need another card:
Hadrian's Wall Creatures with mountainwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have mountainwalk.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not "Great" by any stretch of the imagination...
ultratog1028
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Still would be unplayable at negative mana costs.
enjoy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
only 10 cards have plainswalk...
FourEx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
YES! SCREW YOU GIDEON AND JACE, I GOT A GREAT--
wait, what do you mean it's not like that
Aquillion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the most powerful cards ever printed, this card completely stops mighty planeswalkers from...
Wait, plainswalkers? Yeah, whatever, you go with that, I'm outta here.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It would have to draw you a card and cost 0-1 to make it even mildly playable.
tankthebest
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How is plainswalking even a difficult thing to do in the first place? You're literally just walking across a field with some moderately high grass. Compare it to:
Can't believe this isn't in Portal Three Kingdoms...
cha0sc0w
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't think people understand how this game works. If it cost negative mana, it would be akin to simian spirit guide exept it would give you storm count...
If it cost 0 and cantriped it would also be extremely powerful, although I agree it could (with the current state of plainswalkers) cost 1-2 mana and cantrip and not be as horible.
Plainswalking should obviously be the hardest walking to achieve. The others are harder to navigate but they also have the most cover and ways to get through undetected.
Merfolk can easily navigate underwater and slip past any would-be blockers, goblins and dwarves know how to get through caves and tunnels in mountains being able to get through undetected. Swamps would be easy to hide in under the extremely murky water. Forestwalk could go by undetected through the trees or undergrowth depending on how knowledgable the creatures are to the forest.
But how do you sneak across a plains to hit somebody unnoticed? You have to be either extremely sneaky in knee-high grass or be able to move through it fast enough to hit your mark before anything can block, most plainswalkers appear to the the latter.
MightyWhitey
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This could of been another moat.... Really this should of been moat. But then what would moat do? Glad I own a moat and not this though. Phew.
Ancient-Toaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Number of cards in Magic history with Plainswalk:
10.
Number of plainswalkers up to and including Legends:
Comments (61)
"Great Wall"... more like "NOT-SO-GREAT WALL" AMIRITE.
it stops four whole creatures
FOUR!
Nothing beats out-of-nowhere victories like Opalescence!
To be fair, 3 mana for blocking a landwalk isn't bad. It's just that.... There's no plainswalkers.
This way you can block Teferi, Venser, Karn, and Nicol Bolas!
(Yes, i know it doesn't work like that >.>)
all those Boggart Arsonists, Graceful Antelopes, Righteous Avengers and Zodiac Roosters are very dangerous!
Pretty sure the only creature that had plainswalk when this was released was righteous avengers, which was already one of the worst cards ever printed. Serra Angel had the same converted mana cost.
5/5 hoses otherwise unblockable cards.
Oh, and 1/5 since it doesn't stop Storm Crow.
Hadrian's Wall
Creatures with mountainwalk can be blocked as though they didn't have mountainwalk.
wait, what do you mean it's not like that
Wait, plainswalkers? Yeah, whatever, you go with that, I'm outta here.
Mountainwalk: You're climbing a freaking mountain that probably has lava shooting out of it or rocks falling off it.
Forestwalk: You're traversing through a thick forest filled with poisonous things that's probably easy to get lost in.
Islandwalk: You're crossing a sea or ocean that could be stormy with powerful waves and wind.
Swampwalk: You're navigating a foul mass of rotting things that probably has god knows how any diseases lurking in it.
The only danger plains pose is if someone sets them on fire.
If it cost 0 and cantriped it would also be extremely powerful, although I agree it could (with the current state of plainswalkers) cost 1-2 mana and cantrip and not be as horible.
Plainswalking should obviously be the hardest walking to achieve. The others are harder to navigate but they also have the most cover and ways to get through undetected.
Merfolk can easily navigate underwater and slip past any would-be blockers, goblins and dwarves know how to get through caves and tunnels in mountains being able to get through undetected. Swamps would be easy to hide in under the extremely murky water. Forestwalk could go by undetected through the trees or undergrowth depending on how knowledgable the creatures are to the forest.
But how do you sneak across a plains to hit somebody unnoticed? You have to be either extremely sneaky in knee-high grass or be able to move through it fast enough to hit your mark before anything can block, most plainswalkers appear to the the latter.
10.
Number of plainswalkers up to and including Legends:
1 (Righteous Avengers)
Number of cards in Legends that disable Plainswalking:
2 (Great Wall, Lord Magnus)