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Defense Grid 
Artifact
Oracle Text
Each spell costs 
more to cast except during its controller's turn.
more to cast except during its controller's turn.Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintagePremodernDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Defense Grid, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage | 17 | 2.3 | 104 | 2.1 |
| Premodern | 11 | 2.4 | 60 | 2.5 |
| Legacy | 4 | 2.8 | 45 | 2.3 |
| Duel Commander | 3 | 1 | 13 | 1 |
| Modern | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2.3 |
Details
- Set
- The Brothers' War Retro Artifacts
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 13
Non-foilFoil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Defense Grid
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (27)
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Exhume
- 1 Persist
- 1 Unmarked Grave
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Reality Scramble
- 1 Solve the Equation
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Transmogrify
- 1 Polymorph
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Faithless Looting
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Rite of Flame
- 1 Personal Tutor
- 1 Ponder
- 1 Preordain
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
Instants (24)
- 1 Culling the Weak
- 1 Fell the Profane
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Cabal Ritual
- 1 Shallow Grave
- 1 Daze
- 1 Snap
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Corpse Dance
- 1 Saw in Half
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Chaos Mutation
- 1 Force of Will
- 1 Waterlogged Teachings
- 1 Burnt Offering
- 1 Dark Ritual
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Chain of Vapor
- 1 Dispel
- 1 Flusterstorm
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Mental Misstep
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (31)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Brass
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Gemstone Caverns
- 1 Mana Confluence
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Saprazzan Skerry
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Steam Vents
- 1 Sulfur Vent
- 1 Thundering Falls
- 1 Undercity Sewers
- 1 Underground Sea
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Volcanic Island
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (20)
Instants (20)
Enchantments (4)
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Planeswalkers (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (8)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
- 1 Annex Sentry
- 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
- 1 Crystal Barricade
- 1 Drannith Magistrate
- 1 Ethersworn Canonist
- 1 Voice of Victory
- 1 Marvin, Murderous Mimic
- 1 Myr Retriever
- 1 Painter's Servant
- 1 Ratchet, Field Medic
- 1 Scrap Trawler
- 1 Seasoned Dungeoneer
- 1 Witch Enchanter
- 1 Esper Sentinel
- 1 Giver of Runes
- 1 Market Gnome
- 1 Mother of Runes
Sorceries (4)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (29)
- 1 Arcane Signet
- 1 Disruptor Flute
- 1 Expedition Map
- 1 Lightning Greaves
- 1 Perilous Snare
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
- 1 Grindstone
- 1 Lavaspur Boots
- 1 Meekstone
- 1 Retrofitter Foundry
- 1 Shadowspear
- 1 Springleaf Drum
- 1 Glass Casket
- 1 Spring-Loaded Sawblades
- 1 Staff of the Storyteller
- 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
- 1 Defense Grid
- 1 Scroll Rack
- 1 Torpor Orb
- 1 Winter Moon
- 1 Winter Orb
- 1 Thousand Moons Smithy
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
- 1 Nettlecyst
- 1 Palantír of Orthanc
- 1 Tangle Wire
- 1 Sarevok's Tome
- 1 Portable Hole
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (37)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (9)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (25)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Ransack the Lab
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (17)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (23)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (31)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (27)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (23)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (23)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (13)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (25)
- 1 Profane Tutor
- 1 Collective Brutality
- 1 Demonic Counsel
- 1 Demonic Tutor
- 1 Diabolic Intent
- 1 Night's Whisper
- 1 Ransack the Lab
- 1 Grim Tutor
- 1 Beseech the Mirror
- 1 Bonus Round
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
- 1 Beseech the Queen
- 1 Unmask
- 1 Dark Petition
- 1 Peer into the Abyss
- 1 Behold the Beyond
- 1 Cabal Therapy
- 1 Dread Fugue
- 1 Duress
- 1 Inquisition of Kozilek
- 1 Thoughtseize
- 1 Gamble
- 1 Infernal Plunge
- 1 Rite of Flame
Instants (17)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (34)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Ash Barrens
- 1 Badlands
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Blightstep Pathway
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Bloodstained Mire
- 1 City of Traitors
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Crystal Vein
- 1 Dwarven Ruins
- 1 Ebon Stronghold
- 1 Great Furnace
- 1 Lake of the Dead
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Peat Bog
- 1 Phyrexian Tower
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Raucous Theater
- 1 Sandstone Needle
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Sulfurous Springs
- 2 Swamp
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- 1 Urza's Saga
- 1 Vault of Whispers
- 1 Verdant Catacombs
- 1 Wooded Foothills
