Animate Wall question

[Larry Choy]

Hi Everybody!

I have a question about the enchantment Animate Wall.

The card says, "W: Target Wall can now attack"

My question is, if the wall is animated, and it attacks, is it tapped?
Can it defend also when the opponent's turn comes around and he attacks?
According to the Single Card Strategies, it can still defend although it has
attacked before. Is this true?

Thanks.

Larry Choy

[David DeLaney]

lc...@pacific.net.sg (Larry Choy) writes:
>I have a question about the enchantment Animate Wall.
>
>The card says, "W: Target Wall can now attack"
>
>My question is, if the wall is animated, and it attacks, is it tapped?

Yes. Walls are creatures, creatures tap when declared as attackers, thus
walls tap when declared as attackers. It's just that they normally can't
attack.

>Can it defend also when the opponent's turn comes around and he attacks?

Only if it untaps first, or didn't tap to attack for some reason [Eternal
Warrior, Johan, Serra Paladin, etc.]

If of course it didn't attack, then it can be used as a blocker [if it
didn't get tapped for some other reason first].

Dave
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[Frederic SIMONS]

Larry Choy wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody!

>
> I have a question about the enchantment Animate Wall.
>
> The card says, "W: Target Wall can now attack"
>
> My question is, if the wall is animated, and it attacks, is it tapped?

> Can it defend also when the opponent's turn comes around and he attacks?

> According to the Single Card Strategies, it can still defend although it has
> attacked before. Is this true?

If you attack, you will hate to tap it. So it cannot block on you
opponent's turn.
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Frederic SIMONS
f.si...@ulg.ac.be

[J. Andrew Lipscomb]

In article <50ldcc$d...@newton.pacific.net.sg>, lc...@pacific.net.sg (Larry
Choy) wrote:

> Hi Everybody!
>
> I have a question about the enchantment Animate Wall.
>
> The card says, "W: Target Wall can now attack"
>
> My question is, if the wall is animated, and it attacks, is it tapped?
> Can it defend also when the opponent's turn comes around and he attacks?
> According to the Single Card Strategies, it can still defend although it has
> attacked before. Is this true?

Basically, Animate Wall overrides the rule that walls can't attack. They
still tap to attack (modulo Johan), and can only block if untapped.

J. Andrew Lipscomb <ew...@chattanooga.net, them...@delphi.com>
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[bai...@engin.umich.edu]

lc...@pacific.net.sg (Larry Choy) wrote:

>Hi Everybody!

>I have a question about the enchantment Animate Wall.

>The card says, "W: Target Wall can now attack"

>My question is, if the wall is animated, and it attacks, is it tapped?
>Can it defend also when the opponent's turn comes around and he attacks?
>According to the Single Card Strategies, it can still defend although it has
>attacked before. Is this true?

>Thanks.

>Larry Choy

OK guys, here's my understanding on how Walls (and therefore Animate
Wall works).

Walls are 100% creatures that 99.9% of the time, Magic sees them as
being _absolutely_ no different than any other creature in play. The
only time it is different is during the "Declare Attackers" phase of
the attack. Now when you try to declare your Carniverous Plant an
attacking creature, the game says "Woah, hold on there, says here in
my little book 'o rules that Walls can't attack. Nice try but no
cigar."

So we could, essentially, remove the rulebook line about Walls and
then just put "Cannot be declared as an attacking creature." On every
creature in thr game that is a Summon Wall or says "Counts as a Wall."
on it.

Animate Wall simply removes this "Cannot... " statement. Just like
casting Flight on a creature with Earthbind... enchantments resolve
LIFO, and <boom> your Wall of Swords is now the Sultan of Swat.
Brandon Aiken
bai...@engin.umich.edu

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