"As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*
Pikemen - Fifth Edition (#52) - Illustrated by Dan Frazier - Magic: The Gathering Card
Fifth Edition Common #52 Dan Frazier
First Strike Banding

Pikemen

Card Rules and Details

Card Type: Creature — Human Soldier

Mana Cost: {1}{W}

Oracle Rules Text: First strike; 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.)

Flavor Text: "As the cavalry bore down, we faced them with swords drawn and pikes hidden in the grass at our feet. 'Don't lift your pikes 'til I give the word,' I said." —Maeveen O'Donagh, *Memoirs of a Soldier*

Set: Fifth Edition (#52), Rarity: Common, Artist: Dan Frazier

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Historical Printings & Sets (1)
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Thumbnail Set Name Code Rarity Artist Released
Pikemen - Fifth Edition MTG card scan Pikemen Fifth Edition Viewing 5ED Common Dan Frazier 1997-03-24

Official Rulings (4)

2008-10-01
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.
2008-10-01
A maximum of one nonbanding creature can join an attacking band no matter how many creatures with banding are in it.
2008-10-01
Creatures in the same band must all attack the same player or planeswalker.
2009-10-01
If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.

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