• Living Wall (Original Art)
  • Living Wall (Original Art)
  • Living Wall (Original Art)

    Living Wall (Original Art)

    Artist
    Anson Maddocks
    Year
    1992
    Medium
    Water-based Medium & Pencils
    Set/Console Name
    Alpha
    Console/Game
    Magic the Gathering
    C.O.A.
    yes
    Painted A.P.
    yes
    Substrate Material
    Crescent Archival Cotton Rag Illustration Board
    Substrate Dimensions
    6 3/4"H x 9"W
    Image Area Dimensions
    5 5/8"H x 7 1/8"W
    Frame Dimensions
    Unframed
    Handmade Protective Case
    YES
    Reserved List
    No

    Living Wall is a four-mana 0/6 Artifact Wall creature, first printed in Alpha (1993), that can regenerate itself for one colorless mana. It’s a quirky, flavorful artifact from Magic’s early days- a reminder of when artifact creatures were mysterious and genuinely weird. At a time when creatures were fragile and removal was plentiful, being able to keep your wall alive was a big deal. Since it’s a colorless artifact, it could fit in any color deck back when mana bases were unreliable. Living Wall was one of the first regenerating artifact creatures, and remained a symbol or early artifact creature design. Back in the earliest days of Magic, before Serra Angel and Shivan Dragon ruled the skies, Living Wall was one of the most durable blockers available to any deck. A 0/6 that could regenerate was incredibly hard to deal with in 1993-1994. Living Wall is not on the reserved list, it was removed from the Reserved List in March 2002.
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