---
name: "Ayesha Tanaka"
mana_cost: "{W}{W}{U}{U}"
cmc: 4
type_line: "Legendary Creature — Human Artificer"
colors: []
color_identity: ["U", "W"]
keywords: ["Banding"]
set: "CHR"
set_name: "Chronicles"
collector_number: "73"
rarity: "rare"
artist: "Bryon Wackwitz"
oracle_id: "35e4ed0e-8ce2-4729-a009-0d6be8f47663"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/ayesha-tanaka-chr"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Ayesha Tanaka
- **Mana Cost:** `{W}{W}{U}{U}` (CMC: 4)
- **Type:** Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
- **Keywords:** Banding

## Oracle Text
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.)
{T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Ayesha Tanaka, Armorer](/printing/ayesha-tanaka-armorer-dmc.md) — Legendary Creature — Human Artificer
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3. [Kjeldoran Warrior](/printing/kjeldoran-warrior-ice.md) — Creature — Human Warrior
4. [Shield Bearer](/printing/shield-bearer-me2.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
5. [Kjeldoran Escort](/printing/kjeldoran-escort-all.md) — Creature — Human Soldier
6. [Mishra's War Machine](/printing/mishras-war-machine-4ed.md) — Artifact Creature — Juggernaut

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Chronicles (CHR) #73
- **Rarity:** Rare
- **Artist:** Bryon Wackwitz

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(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.
- *(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.
- *(2009-10-01)* If a creature in combat has banding, its controller assigns damage for creatures blocking or blocked by it.
- *(2016-06-08)* Activated abilities contain a colon. They're generally written "[Cost]: [Effect]." Some keywords are activated abilities and will have colons in their reminder text.