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MTG's Most Annoying Wall: Can You Really Kill Hexplate Wallbreaker rides meme waves and format rotations back into focus. Players keep asking how to deal with this sticky wall that laughs at small removal.
MTG's Most Annoying Wall: Can You Really Kill Hexplate Wallbreaker is/are a legendary creature that can become indestructible. As long as it has +1/+1 counters, it ignores single target damage and many board wipes. Research shows this resilience makes it a frustrating checkpoint in slower matchups.
Why the Wall survives so easily. Hexplate Wallbreaker can pump itself whenever an artifact enters the battlefield, stacking counters fast. Wipes that spare artifacts or creatures with counter buffs leave it standing. Add Hexproof, and targeted spells bounce right off.
Straight path to victory. Use board wipes that ignore indestructible or steal counters to shut it down fast.
Q: Can removal with no damage kill it?
A: Yes, spells that exile, transform, or change controller work around indestructible.
Q: Is it still strong in current Standard?
A: Its power depends on how often you hit big artifact triggers in the current meta.
