The Wall and the Fallen

Type: Token

Rarity: Token

Mana Cost: —

Color Identity: Colorless

Reminder card. Shield wall: as long as you control three or more untapped Soldiers, creatures you control other than the one with the greatest power can't be attacked, blocked, or targeted by your opponents.

The line protects everything behind it, and only the biggest thing you control is exposed. It falls the moment your Soldiers tap, so attacking is what breaks it — that is the whole tension of the deck, and vigilance and end-step untaps are how you cheat it.

For Sparta: whenever a Soldier you control dies, put a number of +1/+1 counters equal to its power on another target Soldier you control.

Nothing comes back. The power of the dead is moved onto the living, which is why this deck sacrifices its own rank and file on purpose and why the survivor gets bigger every time the line loses a man.

“Three hundred men held a road for three days, and the only thing that survived intact was the account of it.”

Single card from the 300 (Tonight We Dine in Hell) Commander deck. Sold individually.