Chris' Magic: The Gathering Card of the Day!

In this web page, I hope to present to you strategies, combos, and obscure uses for a new Magic the Gathering card every single day.

The Card of the Day is....

Animate Wall

Play only on a Wall. Enchanted creature can attack as though it were not a Wall.

A brief rundown of the card:

This obscure card is often quickly forgotten about in most collections. Most players don't even give this underrated card a second thought-- Animate Wall? HA! Ohhh, I could make a fully-functional creature for the cost of 2 cards instead of the usual one. Why bother? Here's why bother:

• Blistering Barrier
  This has similar results to Erhnam Djinn/Deadly Insect. A 5/2 creature for 2WR is not too bad.
• Carniverous Plant
  Speaking of Erhnam Djinn, attack away with your Erhnam plant while making fun of the people that joke about its removal from 5th edition.
• Necropolis+Transmutation
  You can build Necropolis to mammoth proportions in no time. Add something like Parapet to get it's ex-power/soon to be toughness to at least 1 (so it doesn't die when you Transmutation it) and then POW! Switch the power/toughness and attack with your 18/1 Animated Necropolis!
• Crown of the Ages+Wall of Kelp+Sunken City
  Keep many kelp tokens around with Wall of Kelp. Animate one of them and attack. If our brave little attacking salad looks like he will die, move the Animate Wall to another waiting kelp token with the Crown.
• Drift of the Dead
  Think of this like a cheap Dakkon Blackblade, except you *could* have up to 16 in play at a time (4 Drifts of the Dead, 4 Clones, 4 Dance of the Many, 4 Vesuvian Dopplegangers) unlike only 1 Dakkon. The overall casting cost is less, and is only 2 colors instead of 3!
• Illusionary Wall
  There are very few creatures that can survive a meeting with the Illusionary Wall, and even fewer opponents that can withstand 3 unblocked hits by it. **7/4 flying first strike**
• Wall of Opposition/Snow Fortress
  Use these easily pumpable walls to wreak havoc in any game. It's nice to have creatures and not have to worry about only 1 Lightning Bolt. It's even nicer (I think) to see someone -dare I say-*waste* 2 of them on 1 of your walls.
• Sunweb
  Don't let the "not able to block creatures with power greater than 2" thing concern you, you're going to be too busy attacking every turn with your animated Sunweb--it'll be too busy to block. This is even a single color combo!