Shield Bearer

Creature — Human Soldier

Illustrated by Dan Frazier

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EDHREC Rank #23,080

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.)

"You have almost completed your four years, my son. Soon you shall be a skyknight." —Arna Kennerüd, skyknight

Rulings (4)

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

Oct 1, 2009

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

Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.

Oct 1, 2008