Forbidding Watchtower
Forbidding Watchtower: Land, Tenth Edition. This land enters tapped. Tap: Add W. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana value
- 0
- Type
- Land
- Colour identity
- White (W)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Tenth Edition (10E)
- Released
- 2007-07-13
- Collector number
- 352
- Artist
- Aleksi Briclot
- Commander rank
- 10,999 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Forbidding Watchtower
Forbidding Watchtower is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon white land from Tenth Edition (10E), a core set released in July 2007. It is collector number 352 in that set, with art by Aleksi Briclot. As a land, it has no mana cost. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker and PreDH. It has been printed in 4 sets, from Urza's Legacy (1999) to The List (2020). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.59 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
This land enters tapped.
{T}: Add {W}.
{1}{W}: This land becomes a 1/5 white Soldier creature until end of turn. It's still a land.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.59 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Forbidding Watchtower by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
Other printings of Forbidding Watchtower
Forbidding Watchtower has been printed in 4 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The List (PLST) #10E-352 | Uncommon | 2023 |
| Duel Decks: Mirrodin Pure vs. New Phyrexia (TD2) #39 | Uncommon | 2011 |
| Urza's Legacy (ULG) #140 | Uncommon | 1999 |
Official rulings
Two official rulings apply to Forbidding Watchtower, newest first.
- Activating the ability that turns it into a creature while it’s already a creature will override any effects that set its power and/or toughness to a specific number. However, any effect that raises or lowers power and/or toughness (such as the effect created by Giant Growth, Glorious Anthem, or a +1/+1 counter) will continue to apply.
- A noncreature permanent that turns into a creature can attack, and its {T} abilities can be activated, only if its controller has continuously controlled that permanent since the beginning of their most recent turn. It doesn’t matter how long the permanent has been a creature.
Similar cards
Other land cards with a white colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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