The Walls of Ba Sing Se
The Walls of Ba Sing Se: Legendary Artifact Creature - Wall, Avatar: The Last Airbender. Printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {8}
- Mana value
- 8
- Type
- Legendary Artifact Creature - Wall
- Colour identity
- Colourless
- Power / toughness
- 0/30
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Set
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA)
- Released
- 2025-11-21
- Collector number
- 261
- Artist
- Arthur Yuan
- Keywords
- Defender
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About The Walls of Ba Sing Se
The Walls of Ba Sing Se is a Magic: The Gathering card, a mythic rare colourless legendary artifact creature from Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA), an expansion set released in November 2025. It is collector number 261 in that set, with art by Arthur Yuan. It costs {8} (eight generic mana) to cast, for a mana value of 8. It is a 0/30 creature. It has no colour identity. It is legal in Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Alchemy, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $26.11 (normal finish, as of 2026-10-23).
Card text
Defender
Other permanents you control have indestructible.
"That is why the city is named Ba Sing Se. It's the 'impenetrable city.'" -General Sung
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $26.11 (as of 2026-10-23).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of The Walls of Ba Sing Se by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Standard | Legal |
|---|---|
| Pioneer | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Standard Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Alchemy | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of The Walls of Ba Sing Se
The Walls of Ba Sing Se has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Avatar: The Last Airbender Promos (PTLA) #261s | Mythic | 2025 |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender (TLA) #329 | Mythic | 2025 |
Official rulings
Three official rulings apply to The Walls of Ba Sing Se, newest first.
- A battle with indestructible still loses defense counters as it's dealt damage. If it's a Siege, it will still be exiled when the last defense counter is removed from it, and its controller may still cast it transformed without paying its mana cost.
- A planeswalker with indestructible still loses loyalty as it's dealt damage. It is put into its owner's graveyard if its loyalty becomes 0.
- Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature you control may become lethal if The Walls of Ba Sing Se leave the battlefield during that turn.
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