Icatian Phalanx

Creature — Human Soldier

Illustrated by Kaja Foglio

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EDHREC Rank #26,308

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Even after the wall was breached in half a dozen places, the phalanxes fought on, standing solidly against the onrushing raiders. Disciplined and dedicated, they held their ranks to the end, even in the face of tremendous losses.

Rulings (4)

If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.

Oct 1, 2009

A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.

Oct 1, 2008

If a creature with banding attacks, it can team up with any number of other attacking creatures with banding (and up to one nonbanding creature) and attack as a unit called a "band." The band can be blocked by any creature that could block a single creature in the band. Blocking any creature in a band blocks the entire band. If a creature with banding is blocked, the attacking player chooses how the blockers' damage is assigned.

Oct 1, 2008